TITLE:
Student Fearlessly Attacking Teacher and Others: A Qualitative Study of Ethics on High School and Colleges Students in Bekasi City
AUTHORS:
Adhy Firdaus
KEYWORDS:
Education, Ethics, Institutions, Violence, Interview
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.11,
November
20,
2019
ABSTRACT: Indonesian are polite and kind to others, and nowadays, central and local government of the Republic of Indonesia (both provincial and district) are actively implementing programs of 9-year compulsory education. However, at the same time, the acts of ethical infractions were very widespread and were done by students. Group fighting between students and other negative activities that were done by a student in a group or alone often occur and are very worrying. The other event of violating ethics were: high school student attacking substitute teacher, student bullying teacher, attacking school cleaning service personnel, and much more. The purpose of this paper is to uncover deeply what are the reasons or the backgrounds of the unethical behavior of student’s violence against teachers and other personnel in school and communities. The setting of this research is in Bekasi City, West Java Province of Indonesia. This research used a qualitative approach with grounded research design with questioners, field observations and interviews data gathering. The research is focused on ethical behavior and knowledge of high school and undergraduate university students in the setting area. The research questions were: 1) Why student or students do violence to teacher and others?. 2) What is underlying their violent behaviors? The research result indicated that the level of educations has strong influences on the ethical behaviors of a person. And research also found that there were four factors that strongly influenced the act of unethical behavior of students. This research suggested a model of ethical teaching in educational institutions.