PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - After a fierce battle lasting 6 hours, SMPN 41 Bandung succeeded in becoming the champion of the Human Rights (HAM) Quiz Competition, at the Savoy Homan Hotel, Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

SMPN 41 achieved a final score of 3,050. Second place was won by SMPN 26 Bandung with a score of 2,875. Then SMPN 42 Bandung was ranked 3rd with a score of 2,775. While the Harapan rank was won by SMPN 37 with a score of 1,800.

For the Human Rights cheerleading competition, 1st place was won by SMPN 41 Bandung with a score of 935, 2nd place was won by SMPN 42 Bandung with a score of 930 and 3rd place was won by SMPN 39 with a score of 927.

One of the participants from SMPN 41 Bandung, Kayla and her team shared the preparations they had made so far.

"The preparation took almost 1 month. Every time we came home from school, we studied together from the module and memorized it," explained Kayla.

According to him, the most difficult part was memorizing all the materials. Because of the many materials, he and his classmates did not know the materials that would be tested during the competition later.

However, thanks to the persistence, support and prayers from all parties, finally the SMPN 41 Bandung team was able to emerge as the winner of the quiz competition.

"I'm so happy and touched that we finally won. During this competition, I think the toughest opponent was from SMPN 42 Bandung," he said.

He said that the tips for achieving victory were consistency, effort, and prayer.

Meanwhile, the Acting Regional Secretary of Bandung City, Dharmawan, hopes that with this activity, children will be able to instill human rights values from an early age.

"Through good synergy between the Bandung City Government and the West Java Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, we hope that through this quiz competition, children will be able to become the nation's successors and instill human rights values from an early age in an interactive manner," said Dharmawan.

He appreciated and thanked the participants and selected schools that took part in the human rights quiz competition to shape the character of the younger generation.

Thank you to the teachers, supervising teachers and the 10 principals who participated. Hopefully this activity can minimize human rights violations starting from the scope of schools. One of them is reducing the number of bullying as one of the disturbing issues in society. Of course, this activity can also shape the character of children while learning to respect the human rights of others," said Dharmawan

Meanwhile, Head of Legal Section of Bandung City Secretariat, Santosa Lukman Arief explained, this competition has been held for 5 consecutive years. There are 10 schools selected to participate in the competition. The participants come from public junior high schools in Bandung City.

"Each school consists of 3 students, plus 2 reserves so a total of 5 students as representatives for each school. There are 50 participants in the quiz competition," Santosa explained.

He said, the school selection was carried out by the Bandung City Education Office (Disdik). After that the results were given to the Legal Department to participate in the quiz competition.

"We coordinate with the Bandung City Education Office. We entrust this selection to the Bandung City Education Office," he said.

He hopes that children will be able to understand human rights in general and minimize bullying issues in schools.

"The competition wants to provide a general introduction to human rights to our junior high school students, so that in its implementation it minimizes bullying or bad treatment in school education. So that they know from an early age how to respect, honor, and care for each other, "he said.

For the materials being competed, the Bandung City Government also coordinated with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Participants were given a module to learn about human rights.

"In general, they will be asked about the theory of the process of implementing human rights in each country including Indonesia. For the champions, we have prepared 4 categories including 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Hope champions and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best cheers," said Santosa. (Bandung City Communication and Information Service/Fauziah)