NTT Ombudsman Receives Complaints For 16 Private Schools Not Having New Students

Head Of The Indonesian Ombudsman Representatives Of NTT Province Darius Beda Daton (right fifth) along with a number of private school organizers in Kupang City/ANTARA

The Ombudsman Representative of East Nusa Tenggara Province received complaints from the organizers of 16 high school-level private schools in Kupang City who did not have new students in the 2023 New Student Admissions (PPDB) in the area. "Private schools convey that based on the trend of new students entering private schools, this year 2023 is worse than the previous year. There are as many as 16 private schools whose new students are zero or not," said Head of the Indonesian Ombudsman Representative of NTT Province Darius Beda Daton when confirmed in Kupang, Antara, Tuesday, July 11. He conveyed this related to the records of the Indonesian Ombudsman Representative of NTT Province regarding the implementation of PPDB 2023 in NTT. Beda Daton said that as many as 16 private schools at the SMA/SMK level in Kupang City did not have new students until registration outside the network was closed on July 10. There are several possibilities that are the causes such as offline registration which has just been closed so that new students who are not accepted at public schools will start registering after that. In addition, he said, it could be because the students who graduated from Junior High School (SMP) in Kupang City were the same number as the number of study groups (rombel) prepared for public schools so that there was no remaining for private schools. Different Daton said this condition needed attention from the provincial government in maintaining the existence of private schools so that they could continue to develop. "Don't let private schools close because there are many teachers and employees who depend on their lives there," he said.

He added that his party together with private school officials have discussed strategies for how to revive private schools in the future, among others, by asking the provincial government to eliminate schools morning and evening or shift systems. "So only morning schools with available rombels so that the number of quotas per school will be cut according to the real number of rombels in schools so that others can go to the private sector," he said.