Types of Bullying in Junior High School Students

According to the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), bullying in Indonesia ranks fourth in child abuse cases. In accordance with McManis, highest prevalence of abuse cases occurred in early adolescence stage that equivalent to the level of junior high school in Indonesia. This study aims to obtain exploratory data on abuse classification that experienced by students and its occurrence frequency. This study was conducted on five junior high schools in Bandung that have the most students according to the 2016 New Student Admission page. Around 1261 students filled out questionnaire regarding their abuse experience. Data was processed by qualitative and quantitative methods and presented through cross table tabulation. Results showed that 49.3% of total respondents had experienced abuse and entered frequency category from ‘quite often’ to ‘often’. Then, 16% of them experienced abuse at school and 13% experienced in classroom. This result was used as basis in psychological intervention programs designing that adjusted to type of abuse and other subjective experiences faced by students, so that handling traumatic impacts on victim can be right on