A Number Of Reasons Why The North Penajam Paser Regency Government Forbids Middle School Students From Bringing Motorcycles To School

JAKARTA - Junior high school students in North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, are prohibited from bringing motorbikes to school during limited face-to-face learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We forbid junior high school students to bring motorbikes to school," said Head of the North Penajam Paser Regency Education, Youth and Sports (Disdikpora) Alimuddin in Penajam as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, September 21.

The ban is to anticipate student convoys or wandering when they come home from school after PTM.

Limited face-to-face learning activities in North Penajam Paser Regency are enforced with a number of strict rules amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to the health protocols that must be strictly implemented in all schools, students are prohibited from using motorbikes to school.

Every student, he said, is prohibited from using a private motorbike, except for bicycles to school.

The regulation is in accordance with the direction of the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology.

Junior high school students use motorbikes in addition to violating the traffic law, as well as a form of anticipation so that there are no crowds of junior high school students on the road riding motorbikes. Junior high school students are also not old enough to get a driver's license (SIM).

"We ask all junior high school principals to write to parents so that their children do not bring motorbikes to school," said Alimuddin.

The Disdikpora of North Penajam Paser Regency also doesn't want other impacts to arise when junior high school students use motorbikes that can tarnish the limited PTM.