Jakarta, Nov. 11 -- Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Abdul Mu'ti pledged to strengthen regulation on the prevention and handling of violence in educational institutions with a more humanistic, comprehensive, and participatory approach to realize a safe school environment.

"The existing regulation needs to be perfected through a more humanist, comprehensive, and participatory approach. With recent incidents, we hope that what happened in Jakarta will be the last," Mu'ti said after opening the International Conference on Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy (ICCCRL) here on Tuesday.

He explained that the humanistic approach would strengthen school guidance and counseling services based on a "heart-to-heart" principle.

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