The education sphere nowadays faces the issue of corporal punishment, which is considered a detrimental school discipline that has negative impacts on a child’s development and growth. Teachers are advised to always opt for moral persuasion rather than corporal punishment in disciplining their misbehaving students. In Indonesia, the teacher stays in a dilemma as many cases of the administration of light corporal punishment have gone to criminal litigation and ended up with sentencing of the teacher. Concurrently, often the teacher becomes a victim of a student’s disruptive behavior when they only adopt soft measures such as reprimands. Legal protection for teachers has been guaranteed by the Teacher and Lecturer Law Year 2005 and several other relevant regulations. Unfortunately, the existence of the Law on Child Protection Year 2014, which broadly governs the prohibition of violence, has made criminalisation of teachers easy and their protection questionable. This paper elaborates the extent of legal protection provided to teachers in the term of facing criminal litigation due to corporal punishment. It also explores the legal effort that can be undertaken by the Indonesian Government to embody fair protection for teachers and children.

当今的教育领域面临着体罚的问题，体罚被认为是有害的学校纪律，对孩子的成长和成长产生负面影响。建议教师在惩戒学生行为时要始终选择道德说服而不是体罚。在印度尼西亚，由于许多实施轻度体罚的案件已被提起刑事诉讼，最终导致对教师的判刑，教师陷入了两难境地。同时，当教师仅采取诸如谴责之类的软性措施时，他们经常成为学生破坏性行为的受害者。2005年《教师和讲师法年》以及其他一些相关法规已保障了对教师的法律保护。不幸的是，2014年《儿童保护法》的存在，该法广泛地禁止暴力，使教师容易被定罪，对其保护也存有疑问。本文详细阐述了在因体罚而面临的刑事诉讼中为教师提供的法律保护的范围。它还探讨了印度尼西亚政府可以采取的法律措施，以体现对教师和儿童的公平保护。