Jakarta, Feb. 1 -- The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology instructed schools to immediately form a Violence Prevention and Handling Team (TPPK) to handle and reduce incidents of violence in schools.

The formation of the TPPK has been regulated in Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister's Regulation Number 46 of 2023 that was designed to fight violence, which is one of the biggest problems in Indonesia's education system.

"In this regulation, we encourage active participation of educational institutions through the formation of TPPK," head of the ministry's Character Strengthening Center, Rusprita Putri Utami, stated in a webinar on TPPK formation in elementary schools here on Wednesday (January 31). ...