Over time, she started to notice that her second-grader, a state elementary school student in Bekasi, West Java, wasn’t able to complete school assignments on her own.

Siti began to blame herself for not having the skills to help her daughter understand the material.

“Sometimes I grumble. Sometimes I get mad because she can’t seem to understand the material and gets distracted by gadgets,” she told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

“But then again, I can’t teach as well as a teacher does.”

With only a few online classes to attend but an abundance of assignments to finish, the mother of three fears that her daughter has lost all interest in learning.

Siti’s troubles have become all too familiar to parents throughout Indonesia as remote learning has become the de facto “new normal” for students. Because of the unpredictable nature of the pandemic, social restrictions are still in place and schools remain closed until further notice.

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