Pity Children Don't Know School, Muhadjir Effendy Asks PTM To Go Together With Vaccination

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy invited all schools to hold face-to-face learning by fulfilling a number of stipulated requirements while vaccinating all teachers and students.

"Although the vaccination has not been fully implemented, the face-to-face learning can take place while completing the vaccination," said Muhadjir on the sidelines of attending the COVID-19 vaccination at the PKU Muhammadiyah Darussalam Medika Getasrabi Clinic, Gebog District, Kudus Regency, Central Java, Monday.

According to him, the key is that local governments must really realize that face-to-face learning cannot be delayed.

"It's a pity that the children don't know their school anymore. It could be that they don't know the teacher when they enter the first time, there will be something called 'learning loss' or the most dangerous loss of learning opportunities," he said.

The corona virus, he said, was very dangerous, but losing the opportunity to learn was also dangerous because it involved the nation's future.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Youth and Sports Education Office of Kudus, Harjuna Widada, admitted that all kindergarten, elementary and junior high schools in Kudus held limited face-to-face learning.

"We have also established standard operating procedures, including compliance with health protocols starting from wearing masks, washing hands with soap, maintaining distance, and avoiding crowds. When you finish school, it's better to stay home to reduce non-essential activities," he said.

Although most of the class IX junior high school students in Kudus Regency have been vaccinated, he said, discipline in maintaining health protocols must still be maintained as an effort to avoid transmission of the corona virus, especially in schools so that COVID-19 clusters do not appear.

For the implementation of the vaccination, the focus is only on class IX, after that and a new vaccine is available targeting class VIII students, then class VII students.