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Abstract. Bullying is a global problem, not only a problem in Indonesia but also in developed countries such as the United States and Japan. Bullying is a case that often occurs in teenagers in which done in the name of seniority. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between social peers and bullying behavior in teenagers at Senior High School 2 Kuta. This study employed a correlation analytic design with a cross-sectional approach. The sampling technique used was a probability sampling technique with stratified sampling and simple random sampling. To conduct this study, 258 respondents were recruited as the sample. The data were collected using a questionnaire. The data were analyzed using Spearman-s Rho correlation. Findings indicated that 31.0% of respondents had sufficient social peers and 69.0% had bad social peers. Moreover, 41.1% of respondents had sufficient bullying behavior and 58.9% had bad bullying behavior (p <0.001). There is a significant correlation between the variables of social peers with bullying behavior variables, with the strength of the medium correlation is 0.503 with positive correlation direction. The worse the social peers, the worse the bullying behavior will be