It Turns Out, There Are 25 Percent Of Students' Parents Want PTM To Be Terminated Based On The KPAI Survey

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) conducted a survey on face-to-face learning (PTM) amid an increase in COVID-19 cases due to the spread of the Omicron variant.

This survey will take place from 4 to 6 February 2022 and only covers three provinces, namely DKI Jakarta, West Java, and Banten. Respondents in this survey are parents of students.

"This survey is in line with President Joko Widodo's statement encouraging the evaluation of PTM in the three regions," said KPAI Commissioner for Education Retno Listyarti in a statement, Wednesday, February 9.

Apparently, there are still parents who want PTM to be temporarily stopped. Although, there are still more parents who want PTM to be held.

Based on the survey results, 25 percent of parents want PTM to be temporarily suspended, with details of 4 percent wanting to stop after the Eid holiday, 11 percent until March 2022, and 10 percent until July 2022.

"The voices of parents asking for PTM to be stopped first because Indonesia is entering the third wave and the number of COVID-19 cases in a number of regions in Indonesia, especially in DKI Jakarta, West Java and Banten, really deserves to be considered by the central government and regional governments," he explained. he.

Then, the rest still want PTM to be continued. As many as 24 percent wanted PTM to be held at 50 percent capacity, 47 percent wanted PTM to be held at 100 percent, and 4 percent answered others.

"The proposals from parents in this survey still support the implementation of PTM, they just want the capacity to be reduced to 50 percent, given the difficulty of keeping a distance during the learning process in the classroom and in a closed room for several hours, this is a high risk of transmission," said Retno .

It is known that this survey had 1209 respondents, which were dominated by representatives of DKI Jakarta (74 percent), followed by West Java (20 percent), Banten (4 percent) and areas other than the three regions (2 percent).

The respondents' occupations are teachers/lecturers (8 percent) and other than teachers/lecturers (92 percent). The education level of the respondent's children is the highest level of SMA/SMK/MA/SLB reaching 71 percent, then SMP/MTs/SLB 15 percent, and SD/MI/SLB 14 percent.