Sultan HB X Has Not Allowed Face-to-Face Learning Until All Students Are Vaccinated

YOGYAKARTA - Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X has not allowed face-to-face learning (PTM) until all students in this area are injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.

"The teachers have been (vaccinated, ed), but their children must also have been vaccinated. If they haven't been vaccinated, they cannot meet face to face," he said at the Kepatihan complex in Yogyakarta, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, August 25.

According to Sultan, even though all teachers have received the COVID-19 vaccine, face-to-face learning in schools is still a risk for students if they have not been vaccinated as well.

"The risk is too great for children," said the King of the Yogyakarta Palace.

Therefore, the DIY Regional Government continues to intensify vaccinations for students so that it is targeted for completion in early October 2021.

Of all students who must be vaccinated, so far only about 40 percent have been injected with the vaccine. Not including students in DIY, whose numbers range from 250 thousand to 300 thousand people who come from various regions.

Meanwhile, the Daily Executor of the Head of the Education, Youth and Sports Office (Disdikpora) DIY Suherman said the vaccination targeted 128,000 high school/vocational high school students in DIY.

With the vaccination target being completed as soon as possible, he hopes that when face-to-face learning begins in the near future, SMA/SMK in DIY will be ready considering that all teachers have received the vaccine.

According to him, one of the conditions for schools to be able to carry out PTM if all students have been vaccinated.

"Although until the end of August only the first dose, there is no problem because the second dose will just follow," said Suherman.