Author:
Joice Soraya
Affiliation:
Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Legal protection, character development, law enforcement, quality of education, professional development.
Abstract:
Law on National Education System Number 20 of 2003 confirms that the function of national education is to develop the ability and character development and civilization that are useful in the context of the intellectual life of the nation, is aimed at developing students' potentials in order to become a man of faith and fear of God, noble, healthy, knowledgeable, skilled, creative, independent, and become citizens of a democratic and accountable. The integration helps to achieve rigorous interpretation and to ensure the consistency of both strands. Thus, legal protection of teachers can be defined as the protection afforded by law against teachers, from various threats of violence, threats, discriminatory treatment, intimidation and unfair treatment. Basically the protection against the acts as specified above, is not limited to the capacity as teachers, but also in their status as citizens, such protection is the obligation of the state against its citizens. Violence or ill-treatmen
t is a criminal sanction for anyone who does so. Article 351 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code expressly states that, "Persecution is punishable by imprisonment of a maximum of two years and eight months or a fine of four thousand five hundred rupiah.”.
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