Bullying:

A cancer that must be eradicated

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tragic end to an education that had barely begun 13-year-old Kiki stopped schooling because her classmates used to make fun of her relentlessly.
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became

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depressed,

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take it anymore.

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In another case, 15 year old Dinda could not

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They
had
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discovered her humble background, her
father being a street vendor.

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left
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school
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and
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stayed
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at home
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Because

she

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constantly

teased by her classmates for failing in junior high school.

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and in yet another, more recent case, some senior students of a junior high school
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took
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subjected

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them

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was
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rushed

to hospital

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to violent beatings.

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Sherry, one of the junior students,

is

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and

seven junior students,

extremely scared

with bruises on his abdomen.

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to go to school.

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Julie, a 10 year old, fifth grade student,

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that her first two years of elementary school were a traumatic experience.
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She sadly remembers being cruelly bullied by her male classmates because she was overweight. They used to call her Sumatran elephant, baboon,
gentong and many other names.
These are few cases out of hundreds of similar cases and the number is increasing over the time. In Indonesia bullying exists in every form, from
teasing to extreme abuse. Even though incidents of bullying are common, unfortunately it is not seen as a major problem. A recent survey conducted
by National Child Protection Commission has shown that more than half of bullying incidents go unreported due to the fact that it is considered
normal in some parts of the society. Also the people who get bullied are either unwilling to report it because they feel it will make a big deal. Or
worse, they are so scared that they don't trust anyone and do not want to share their plight with anyone (http://www.asianewsnet.net/news34263.html). The issue of bullying has been a problem for years but recently it got limelight from news media when few cases were reported