Jakarta, Feb. 21 -- Commission X of the House of Representatives (DPR) has urged the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology to make the handling of school bullying its priority work program.

"We hope that there is a legacy that becomes a good practice from the era of the (current) minister to be made a prototype for policies in the next era," said Syaiful Huda, the commission's chairperson, in a statement from the DPR on Wednesday.

He made the statement in response to a bullying case involving students of BINUS School in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten.

Huda said that the handling of school bullying cases is not yet optimal, despite the ministry issuing Ministerial Regulation Number 46 of 2023 on the Prevention and H...