Abstract:
Bullying is a severe problem in Indonesia. West
Java has a higher rate of bullying cases, where Bandung City is
the highest rating among other districts in West Java. This study
aims to explore school bullying in Bandung City from the
perspective of the bullied students. This study will help to get a
better understanding of the reasons students being bullied,
locations of bullying incidents in school, and to whom students
reported being bullied at schools. This article hopefully will
contribute to helping stop bullying at school. Samples of this
study were elementary school students age 10-14 year-olds (N =
329; 46.2% boys; 53.8% girls). Samples were chosen randomly
using a stratified cluster random sampling technique.
Instruments used in this study were from Children's Worlds
Survey, which have been adapted into Indonesian. Data were
analyzed using descriptive statistics. All calculations were done
with SPSS version 23. Results showed that physical condition and
appearance are the reasons for girls being bullied while being
well-known at school and religion are the reasons for boys being
bullied. Bullying incidents mostly happen in the classroom and
the school corridor. Students were preferring to tell parents
about being bullied at school rather than telling the teacher
