Children Must Be Monitored Not Going To Internet Cafes, Even Though School Is Closed Because Of Corona

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan closed teaching and learning activities at schools. Starting from the level of kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school / vocational school in all areas of DKI Jakarta for two weeks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The school holiday was held from March 16 to 27.

As a substitute, the DKI Provincial Government through the Education Office carries out the teaching and learning process through the distance method using learning applications.

However, the fact is that there are students who do not comply with the rules of studying at home. From the monitoring of DKI Satpol PP, it was found that a number of students used their study time at home to play in malls, cafes, and even internet cafes.

Head of Satpol PP DKI Arifin said that the ranks in each sub-district who find children outside the house during study hours will be asked to leave the crowded place and return home.

"We monitor every day in crowded places. When school children are found, they are educated and directed to return to their homes, carry out study activities at home," Arifin told reporters, Wednesday, March 18.

Responding to this, the Head of the Nahdiana Education Office stated that his party had provided a circular in the form of an appeal for supervision of the parents or guardians of each student.

Parents are asked to supervise their children to learn using the e-learning facilities provided by the Ministry of Education and Culture. This facility is a distance learning application based on the Rumah Belajar android portal which can be easily accessed on the learning site.kemendikbud.go.id.

The features that can be accessed from these facilities by students and teachers include Learning Resources, Digital Classroom, Virtual Laboratory, and Question Bank. Learning Houses can be used by students and teachers of Early Childhood Education (PAUD), Elementary School (SD), Junior High School (SMP), Senior High School or Vocational School (SMA / SMK) and the equivalent.

However, Nahdiana did not deny that there were stubborn students who did not attend the application-based lessons. This is because filling out the student attendance list is done through the application.

"If Disdik's absence is monitored online. We don't know that after that we roam around. Now, out of 1.5 million students, I don't deny that if there are still (who are not studying)," said Nahdiana.

"The name is a child there is saturated. People study in class only. We have been to school, mas, sometimes we want to leave so we are not tired," he continued.

However, Nahdiana claims to have ordered teachers, especially homeroom teachers, to communicate with parents regarding monitoring student learning at home.

"Indeed, Disdik can not do it alone. When it is at home, parental supervision. But, we will re-evaluate it," he said.

Educational psychologist from the University of Indonesia, Rose Mini, understands that there is a sense of "ignorance" of children who ignore the government's appeal to study independently and not leave the house when school is closed.

When there is a school vacation, said Rose, the child feels there is freedom not to study. Indeed, the government has given appeals and so on. But, he said, not all children are sensitive to worry about the transmission of the corona virus.

"They consider the corona virus to be mediocre, because they have not felt the impact. Given that student learning hours are short because they do not require coming to school and attending school learning time, they use that free time to play," said Rose when contacted. VOI.

Rose understands that the government cannot always closely monitor student activities. Even so, Rose asked for the role of parents to participate in supervising and assigning their children to continue to follow lessons according to school guidelines during the holidays.

"With this sudden holiday, parents must also supervise. There is a distance learning system using applications via the internet that students do and it must be checked by each parent, whether the child is doing it or not,"

Educational psychologist from the University of Indonesia, Rose Mini

Furthermore, the school must cooperate with the parents or guardians of students. With a learning platform, the homeroom teacher must coordinate with parents to monitor whether the child is really learning from it or not.