Pros And Cons Of Scout Extracurriculars, Nadiem Makarim Becomes The Spotlight Of Netizens

The Alert Party activity held by Kwarcab Banyumas at Purwanegara Village Field, North Purwokerto District, Banyumas Regency, Wednesday-Thursday (17-18/1/2024). (Between/HO-Kwarcab Banyumas)

JAKARTA - Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim again made a controversial decision. He set a new rule, namely that Scout activities are no longer mandatory extracurricular in elementary to high school levels.

The regulation is contained in Permendikbusristek Number 12 of 2024 concerning the Curriculum of Early, Elementary, and Secondary Childhood Education. Precisely in Article 24 which reads "The participation of Students in Extracurricular is voluntary". This regulation was stipulated by the Minister of Education and Technology Nadiem Makarim in Jakarta on March 25, 2024 and took effect on the date of promulgation on March 26, 2024.

This new rule has become the talk of netizens. Netray Media Monitoring tries to capture the public's response, especially the opinions of various figures regarding changes to this rule in the online mass media for the period March 29 to April 4, 2024.

"By using the presurface keyword 335 artworks from 161 online mass media discussing this topic," Netray reports.

Nadiem Makarim was even involved as the main character in the news, as mentioned in 132 articles and ranked at the top of the entitytop people. His name was indeed highlighted a lot following the issuance of a new Permendikbud. This decision was also commented on by the Scout National Kwartir (Kwarnas) who regretted the decision and asked Nadiem to review the revocation of Scout activities as a mandatory extracurricular at school.

In addition, strong criticism was made by Hanura Party politician, Akbar Faizal through the social media account X @akbarfaisal68. He assessed that Minister Nadiem perfected his poor performance by damaging the formation of student characters, even though the exkul Pramuka could shape the student's soul to be tough. Not only that, he was also seen showing President Joko Widodo's account.

Nadiem is a rich city boy. I don't understand this. His soul is cuan. I protest strongly. This online minister damaged the nation's character, "said Akbar Faizal's tweet.

At the beginning of the news, public perceptions had deviated and said Nadiem would remove Scout extracurriculars. To answer confusion, Nadiem finally clarified that this extracurricular was not removed or removed from school, but his participation was voluntary or not mandatory.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pinned the position of Chair of the Scout Kwarnas to Budi Waseso at the State Palace in Jakarta, Friday (5/4/2024). (Between/Minister Dwi Gayati/aa)

In second place, the public top entity has the name Anindito Aditomo which is mentioned in 53 articles. He is the Head of the Standard Agency, Curriculum, and Education Assessment of the Ministry of Education and Culture. His name is widely mentioned in the news regarding the continuation of the clarification that has been conveyed by the Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem.

Anindito emphasized that every school is required to provide Scouts as an extracurricular activity in the Merdeka Curriculum. In addition, he also added that the Ministry of Education and Culture is also considering the integration of the face-to-face education pattern along with its teaching equipment, including modules and silabuses into the independent study curriculum. In a shorter way, Scouts can be included in cochuricular and lesson hours.

Anindito also explained that with this new regulation, camp activities in the Pramuka exkul are no longer required to be held by schools. Schools can hold camps if they are ready and safe.

Not only in the online mass media, but Netray is also trying to capture netizens' response to the rules that Scouts are no longer required to be extracurricular at school. By using the keywords "nadiem&&pramuka," nadim&&pramuka, a mandatory face, during a week, namely March 29 to April 4, 2024 netizens turned out to be so enthusiastic about responding to this issue.

The Netray report stated that there were 13.6 thousand uploads of approximately 7.5 thousand accounts discussing the exkul Pramuka.

Various reactions were made by netizens regarding this decision. Some agree and some disagree. The most popular account related to this topic falls to @MorphoMenelausX who received 7.6 thousand reactions from netizens. He tends to agree more if the Scout exkul persists because this activity has many benefits.

Statistics about scout topics is not mandatory. (Netray)

Opini selanjutnya datang dari Mahfud MD melalui akunanya @mohmahfudmd. Dia tampak meminta kepada Nadiem agar tetap mempertimbangkan Pramuka sebagai ekkul wajib. Mahfud sendiri merupakan alumnus Pramuka yang merasa memperoleh banyak manfaat dari kegiatan tersebut.

Despite the insistence that this regulation be canceled, Nadiem's decision received support from the Scout Trustees in Banyuwangi, Mohamad Arif Fajartono. According to Arif, this policy returns Scouts to their fitrah as a voluntary choice of extracurricular activity.

As an experienced person in Pramuka, Arif admitted that the extracurricular participants increased dramatically when they were still compulsory. But according to him, true happiness and character formation cannot be measured by this number. Arif also prefers to nurture three volunteers with the character formed, rather than 300 forced people.

"Constructing a handful of individuals with dedication and love is better than fostering many people without ties," said Arif, quoted by Pramuka.id.

"Building a handful of individuals with full dedication and love will produce much better results than fostering many people without strong ties," he added.