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It is no exaggeration to call the recent suicide of a senior high school student in the South Sulawesi regency of Gowa a tragedy. The death of the teenager, who killed himself on Oct. 17 allegedly as a result of unbearable mental distress caused by his inability to cope with the demands of online learning, should be a wake-up call for all the country’s education stakeholders.
The shift from traditional inperson class to distance or hybrid learning is not simple. To put it in context, the Education and Culture Ministry recently reported that 68 million students from early childhood education to high school have been learning from home. These students are taught by around 3.6 million teachers, more than 50 percent of them are contractual ones with low salary and limited teaching resources.
A survey published by the SMERU Research Institute on Thursday showed that while teachers in major cities in Java had proper facilities to teach their students online, teachers in villages, especially outside Java, have needed to visit their students’ homes to give and collect homework because of a lack of access to the internet and digital devices.
"We urge the government to stop the preemployment card program and we hope that the Ombudsman conducts an investigation related to the alleged maladministration in the program," Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) activist Tibiko Zabar said.
