Cyberbullying Cases In Malaysia

As in amanda s case and like so many other cases facebook and other social networks enabled the bullies to continue harassing amanda even after she switched schools to a different city.

Cyberbullying cases in malaysia. Although it s a reality facing internet users the association said that cyber harassment cases mostly go unreported as many don t want to go through the lengthy legal processes to seek redress. The internet is increasingly a perfect case study for this idea. In malaysia nearly half 47 of malaysian parents know a child in their community who has experienced cyberbullying. All technology these days produces both good results and notable consequences.

This number is on the rise namely in south africa up from 10 in 2011 to 25 now and turkey up from 5 in 2011 to 19 now. Bullying isn t new it s been around for a while. This list of cyberbullying statistics from 2018 2020 is regularly updated with the latest facts figures and trends. Kuala lumpur oct 27 malaysia jumped straight to sixth place in a survey measuring cyberbullying among 28 countries reaching the ignoble height on its very first attempt.

What is new is cyberbullying. Advanced technology has also spawned a new form of online cyber bullying phenomenon. Just two weeks after the death of national defence university of malaysia naval cadet zulfarhan osman zulkarnain 21 from physical injuries believed to have been inflicted by his university mates another victim of bullying breathed his last on thursday. Based on cybersecurity malaysia s statistics 5 cyberbullying among students occurs almost every day with 338 cases reported last year compared with 291 cases in 2014.

Globally 17 say their child has experienced cyberbullying. In fact 64 of the 2 000 children below the age of 18 surveyed confided that they have participated or possibly participated in acts of bullying as reported by fmt. Members of the public can also reach befrienders through e mail at email protected you may also report cyberbullying cases to the mcmc malaysian communications and multimedia commission by calling the complaint hotline at 1800 188 030 sending an sms to skmm aduan complaint details at 15888 sending a whatsapp message to 6016 2206 262 or sending an email to email protected. The study also concluded that the level of awareness on cyberbullying awareness among parents in malaysia was low only 38 of the parents were concerned about the issue while slightly more than a quarter have talked to their children about the risks of online communication.

According to the star bullying is so widespread amongst children in malaysia that a recent nationwide survey found that 8 out of 10 malaysian children have encountered bullying in their respective schools.