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The government is in discussion on whether management of bullying cases in educational institutions should cater more to rehabilitative methods than being punitive, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

The Law and Institutional Reform Minister said this is due to the age of the perpetrators, who are usually minors and are still in the education system.

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00:00to answer there's no definition of bullying there's so many sections and cross other laws
00:06because the word bullying is not specified in the law so but to be fair i'm quite uh relieved
00:12because we did amend uh section 507 c and bcd we managed to do that in the last session so i have
00:22to thank the MPs also the government especially the ketua majlis the prime minister for allowing
00:28that amendment and we also quite fortunate that we managed to amend the suakam act to allow one child
00:34commissioner in sabah in sarawak so it was quite timely but the point here is that uh to be fair
00:39to community they have their own guidelines uh but again i think suakam just came up with issue
00:45from the child commissioner's office there are concerns when perpetrators and victims are children
00:50the child act still apply so this is something i think the cabinet has to discuss whether
00:55should we be looking into another processes when it comes to children bullying whether do we need a
01:01tribunal system should we look at a different set of laws that can apply more for rehabilitation than
01:07just punishment so these are things that we have to talk i can't answer on behalf of the cabinet or the
01:13relevant ministry but for the minister in charge of law some countries are going to different direction
01:18because in all this is prevention is better than cure but to be fair uh in in most systems of
01:24bullying schools always have happened in situation of hostels and that's what they say but i'm not
01:28really sure i don't have the data but generally in some countries they look at a different approach to
01:33bullying when it comes to certain higher institution or schools but again for me for the law that we are
01:39using for the penal code is a general law because we tie it up with the sexual harassment and all that but
01:44maybe when it comes to children or certain students maybe we should use a tribunal system
01:48like the sexual harassment act that we do for a tribunal then we can look into the punishment to be
01:53more of yes punitive but more for rehabilitation than punitive that should be the last measure
01:58so that is where the for us for bayou we will have to study and bring to cabinet for some
02:03consideration okay next looking talking about that like akta anti-bully it can be
02:09perimbangkan ke sebab macam gap last week minta hantar akta anti-bully benda ni itulah saya kata
02:15definasi bully dalam kandung kesiksaan penal code takde dia banyak gigit undang-undang lain jadi sebab
02:23kalau kita specify dia takde specification definasi dia ni dalam keadaan yang sangat fleksibel sebab bila kita
02:30baca kita baca bersama benda-benda lain yang dia lakukan sebab dia takkan bully sahaja bully dia
02:34buat ada kesan sampingan kadang dalam akta kita menyebabkan kematian kadang bully kita online bully
02:41kadang bully dia sexual harassment bully kadang bully dia tak naik pangkat itu bawa industrial court so
02:46dia macam-macam bawa akta buruh tapi nak specific itu kita kena kaji tapi bagi saya kemungkinan yang
02:53bagi saya dah harakan bayu untuk untuk kaji sama ada di peringkat sekolah dan pendidikan tinggi IPTA IPTS sama ada
03:00hukuman dia tak setimpal dengan kandung kesiksaan mungkin kita ada tribunal dulu di mana
03:06rehabilitation ditekan dulu sebelum dikenakan hukuman punitive dalam final code bila dah jatuh
03:16hukuman dia memang 10 tahun 10 tahun awak faham tak tapi bila dia kanak-kanak equation dia kena lain
03:22itu contohnya mungkin ada masalah lain saya tak tahulah tapi memang kementerian pendidikan dia guideline dia
03:27memang very complete dia ajar buat ni buat ni memang dia ada tapi itu sahaja guideline mungkin
03:31dia tak gigit sangatlah sebab it's just a guideline tapi terpulang kepada sekolah lah kementerian
03:36pendidikan sama ada dia nak undang-undang khas tapi bagi saya mungkin bagi bayu kita kaji
03:41dulu lah sama ada perlu ke tidak khas bila terpakai untuk sekolah dan institusi IPTA IPTS
03:48sebab dia orang masih dalam proses belajar kan
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