JAKARTA - The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) emphasized that there has been no change in the latest curriculum so that this year the education unit can choose to use the 2013 Curriculum or Independent Curriculum.

Head of the Center for Curriculum and Learning, the Standard Agency, Curriculum, and Education Assessment of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Laksmi Dewi explained that the Minister of Education and Culture Number 13 of 2025 which had just been published basically did not change the number of lesson hours or the names of lessons.

"So, there is no new curriculum, there is absolutely no new curriculum name at all today, there are schools with the 2013 Independent Curriculum and Curriculum," said Laksmi in an activity entitled Policy Dialogue with Mass Media in Jakarta, Friday, July 18, which was confiscated by Antara.

Furthermore, his party has so far only added coding and artificial intelligence (AI) subjects as selected subjects starting from elementary school (class 5 and 6), junior high school (class 7, 8, 9) and high school/vocational school (Class 10, 11, 12).

"We only add coding and artificial intelligence (AI) subjects as selected subjects. In grade 5, grade 6, elementary school, then junior high school, to grade 12 high school," he added.

In addition to these two subjects, the addition in the latest Permendikdasmen also only includes an in-depth learning approach into teaching and learning activities this year.

In other words, he continued, the regulation in the Permendikdasmen only made adjustments to the current curriculum in the context of implementing deep learning or deep learning.

These adjustments include the content of lessons, the burden of learning, and the competencies that students must have.

For information, Permendikdasmen Number 13 of 2025 regulates changes to several things previously regulated in Permendikbud, Research and Technology Number 12 of 2024 concerning Curriculum in Early Childhood Education, Basic Education Levels, and Secondary Education Levels.


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