Cyberbullying Prevention and Combating Strategies for High School Students in Jakarta

This research discuss about prevention and combating strategies of cyber bullying for high school students in Jakarta. It’s so difficult to identify cyber bullying as an criminal act that considered a delinquent, deviance or crime. This situation makes the offender feels unguilty and claim that cyber bullying is no different with the ordinary thing. Although, Indonesia already have the Law of Electronic Information and Transactions (UU ITE) and Indonesia Panel Code (KUHP) which explicitly regulate cyber bullying but until now that activities still happening, even more frequent. Cyber bullying can not be separated from the involvement of perpetrator, victim and bystander. This is the basis of research to provide an alternative prevention and combating strategies of cyber bullying, especially for high school students in Jakarta. This research uses qualitative methods with focus group discussion and unstructured interview. Data for this research sourced form Harapan Ibu Islamic High School, Citra Alam High School, KPAI, Komnas PA, and Polri. The result is finding four characteristics of cyber bullying, which consist of the assumption that is not a crime; the domination of power; as an entertainment and enjoyment; and as a respond to the unproven truth