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View all search resultsThe government must check the readiness of each school throughout the country before embarking on the controversial school reopening plan amid the recent spike in new COVID-19 cases, the Association for Education and Teachers (P2G) has said.
Parents have begun to weigh in on sending their children back to school next year after the government announced changes in school reopening policies last month, but the absence of procedural standards on top of accelerated transmission of COVID-19 has cast doubts.
Although the central government has given regional administrations the option to reopen schools in 2021, a recent study by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has found that 83 percent of schools are not prepared for in-person teaching.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called on parents to stay cautious and patiently continue assisting their children in remote learning, suggesting that the majority of schools across the country would still be closed for the remainder of the year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The government's decision to allow children to return to classrooms for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year, or from January to July next year, has raised questions about schools' readiness to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
School administrations are also required to seek information on the transportation methods used by teachers and students, and/or whether they have visited high-risk areas and whether they have self-isolated.
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