The Ministry Of Public Works Notes Islamic Boarding Schools With Prone Buildings Spread In 9 Provinces

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works (PU) noted that Islamic boarding schools (ponpes) are considered prone to spread in nine provinces of Indonesia. The data is still temporary and continues to be updated.

"Meanwhile, we want to take the sampling of vulnerable Islamic boarding schools in nine provinces," said Dody at the PU Ministry office, Jakarta, quoted Wednesday, October 8.

Even so, Dody has not disclosed in detail the list of the boarding schools in question.

He also revealed that of the 42.000 Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia, only 51 Islamic boarding schools were registered to have a Building Agreement (PBG) permit.

"It seems that most of them are not licensed. Only 51 are registered in our PBG system," he said.

The Ministry of Public Works plans to directly check the thousands of Islamic boarding schools that do not yet have the permit and assist the management process.

Dody explained that the problem of the lack of Islamic boarding schools that have PBG permits is because they are too lightly taken. Even though the permit is needed to ensure the feasibility of the building to be used.

"Yes, maybe because the pesantren, right, likes students for students, so they think they don't need permission. Even though the permit is to convince that what is built is in accordance with the norms, column quality, quality of structure and so on," said Dody.

On the other hand, said Dody, many Islamic boarding schools are located far from urban areas. This makes awareness makes PBG minimal.

"PBG's permit management, yes, I think so too. Because usually PBG's business is only in big cities, yes. In small cities maybe they are not too aware of that," he said.