Police in the province of North Sulawesi are investigating an extremely disturbing viral video showing a high school student being molested by her classmates.
The video, which has been making the rounds online this week, shows a girl in her high school uniform being held down on the floor while several of her classmates surround her. The classmates, of which at least one is a girl, then groped her in her private regions with her unable to fight back.
The video is believed to have been taken in Bolaang Mongondow regency in North Sulawesi based on the dialect that the students in the video spoke.
“Right now our Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit is looking into the video,” North Sulawesi Police spokesman Jules Abbast told Kompas yesterday.
Local authorities have yet to determine which school the students attend.
Like many other countries, there is a strong culture of bullying amongst school children in Indonesia, but few that have been reported involve sexual molestation like in this case.
A 2015 government study found that 40 percent of child suicides in Indonesia were driven by bullying.
