Kemendikbudristek: Parents Must Play An Active Role In Limited PTM, Health Protocols Must Be Maintained After School

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) stated that parents must play an active role in the success of limited Face-to-face Learning (PTM) which will be carried out simultaneously in the 2021/2022 school year.

“Parents have an important role in the success of this limited PTM. For children at the Pre-school and Elementary levels, their parents can take them to school," said the Director of Junior High Schools (SMP) of the Directorate General of Early Childhood Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Mulyatsah, in a webinar monitored in Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Monday, June 7.

Parents also need to monitor and ensure their children continue to apply health protocols after school. Limited PTM, he continued, was carried out by implementing strict health protocols and also carried out with an alternate system.

He added that limited PTM was the best choice for students in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason is that many students are reluctant to study if they are not in school.

"We don't want to lose learning opportunities or loss generation, therefore there is a need for limited PTM options provided by schools," he added.

The Ministry of Education and Culture targets as many as 5.6 million teachers to get vaccinated by the end of July 2021.

“The implementation of limited PTM is certainly not the same as the normal era. There is data collection, there is a checklist that is checked and validated and everything is really checked," he said.

If any cases of COVID-19 are found in a school, it will be closed for a few days and will reopen. According to him, opening and closing schools in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic are normal.