Abstract
This study aims to determine the anti-bullying awareness of high school students in Yogyakarta City. This research is a phenomenological type of qualitative research. The data in this study were collected through interview instrument guidelines and observation guidelines. The subjects in this study were 25 students from six different schools in Yogyakarta City. The study used data analysis by Miles and Huberman. The results of the study show that anti-bullying awareness among high school students in Yogyakarta City is good. This is evidenced by: 1) well-known definitions of bullying, forms of bullying, and the impact of bullying, both victims and perpetrators; 2) broad insight based on the experience of being a victim of bullying, seeing bullying behavior directly or indirectly, and initiatives to help victims of bullying; 3) no desire to bully friends; 4) the ability to make friends by keeping feelings for each other and still upholding the prevailing norms. The results of the study can be used as a reference for guidance and counseling teachers or counselors to design guidance and counseling services about bullying to prevent bullying in high school students in Yogyakarta City.
Highlights
Bullying was aggressive behaviour intended to hurt others (Smith, 2016)
Referring to the analysis that had been done, high school students in Yogyakarta were already open to the problem of bullying
Students had realized that bullying was not a justified action, so in joking with friends, they still paid attention to boundaries so as not to cause verbal or physical disputes
Summary
Bullying was aggressive behaviour intended to hurt others (Smith, 2016). Bullying was currently a serious issue for the Indonesian government. SEJIWA's 2008 found that 67.9% of high school students reported bullying behaviour by teachers to students or between students in three big cities, namely Jakarta, Surabaya, and Yogyakarta,. Based on the interviews with Guidance and Counseling teachers at SMAN 6 and SMAN 8 Yogyakarta, providing guidance services about the effect of bullying for the students can decrease the number of schools bullying. Sometimes it is difficult to identify bullying behaviour among the students because the perpetrator usually said that his actions were unintentional or teased his friend (Swank, Adcock, & Weaver, 2019). Anti-bullying awareness could be one way to reduce the number of bullying cases It can be started by constructing a positive social culture among students. Data analysis was carried out in three stages: reducing, presenting, and drawing conclusions or verification
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