Calls For Years Of Uneven Access To Education In Jakarta, Anies Changes The System To Adopt The Principle Of Equality

Anies Baswedan/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan revealed that access to education in Jakarta during the past years, before he took office, was felt to be uneven for all groups.

He conveyed this in a discussion entitled Answering the Challenges of the Nation's Future and Launching the Book: Anies Baswedan: Ideas, Narratives, Works in Central Jakarta.

"When we talk about equal distribution of education, for example. For many years in Jakarta, access to education has been uneven," said Anies on Friday, July 15.

The inequality in access to education, which Anies meant is that students from high economic and social circles find it easier to get a favorite school than those from poor families.

Therefore, Anies said that since 2019 he has changed the recruitment system for middle and high school students by adhering to the principle of equality.

"During the last three years starting 2019, we have changed how the recruitment system for junior and senior high schools adheres to the principle of equality. Where, there is no longer any recruitment that is influenced by the socio-economic status of their parents," said Anies.

Before the distribution was carried out, Anies claimed that 90 percent of students in favorite schools were filled with children from families with higher education backgrounds. Then, after the equalization he did, the conditions became different.

"After democratization, equity, new students in schools are proportional. Many of their parents have elementary education, junior high school, their parents are high school education, and S1-S2," said Anies.

Anies admitted that the impact of school equity has not yet been felt. He claims, the positive impact can be felt in the next twenty to thirty years.

"Later, the impact can be seen in the next two or three decades. To the children, it will later become someone who can be told how I can get better access because it was opened to equality which was previously only controlled by certain socio-economic status groups," he added.