Wonosari - Friday (17/08), Rifka Annisa collaborated Peer Educator of Vocational High School 1 Wonosari (SMKN 1 Wonosari) to hold a wall magazine competition. It was one of the efforts to accommodate teenagers` creativity in creating media campaign of violence prevention at school. The event took place in Vocational High School 1 Wonosari hall that involved about 52 students of class X. It consisted of 13 groups as representatives of each class. The theme of the event was “Bullying Prevention in Schools”.

            Based on the results of discussion with Peer Educator of Vocational High School 1 Wonosari, Rifka Annisa found that bullying had became a problem that was considered reasonable among learners. There was many teenagers really did not understand the risks and impacts caused by bullying behavior. Through the wall magazine competition of Vocational High School 1 Wonosari, they were expected to understand the risks and impacts of bullying and can avoid it. They also can build healthy relationships and do not commit violence or speaking impolitely in the future.

            The competition lasted for 1 hour. Then it continued the presentation session by each group. the wall magazines contained columns of articles, short stories, poems, caricatures, etc. “Prevention of bullying should involve roles from various parties including teenagers, parents, and schools,” explained one representative of group 5. In addition, she added that bullying could be prevented by following positive activities and the teenagers also must be brave to report when seeing or getting bullying behavior.”

 Written by Ana Widiawati.

Ana Widiwaati is an internship student from International Relations of Brawijaya University.