260 Elementary To Middle School Study Rooms In Garut Damaged, Dangering Students

JABAR - The Department of Education said that around 260 study rooms from the elementary to junior high school levels in a number of sub-districts in Garut Regency were in a damaged and dangerous condition so they needed repairs.

"There is data that in the sub-district there are 260 elementary and junior high school classrooms that were heavily damaged," said Head of the Garut Regency Education Office, Ade Manadin, in Garut, quoted from Antara, Monday, June 6.

He said the Garut District Education Office continued to make an inventory of every school building or classroom that was heavily damaged, moderately or in good condition.

Temporary data in the field, he said, specifically for heavily damaged classrooms recorded 260 classes, this condition will be repaired gradually in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years.

"There will be repairs in 2022, there will also be repairs in 2023," said Ade.

According to him, the data on the damaged classrooms is still relatively small when compared to the number of classrooms at the elementary and junior high school levels of 10,200 classes.

"The number is small for the heavily damaged of the existing 10,200 classes," he said.

He added that the number of damaged classrooms can often have more data, because what was previously categorized as moderately damaged can become heavy in a few days later.

"For SD, for example, the data is dynamic, it breaks today, it collapses the next day," said Ade.

He appealed to schools not to use heavily damaged buildings for teaching and learning activities because it could