Disdik Papua Consider Opening Schools Following New Types Of COVID-19

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JAKARTA - The Papua Province Education, Library and Regional Archives Office is reconsidering the face-to-face opening of schools in early January 2021.

Head of the Papua Province Education, Libraries and Archives Office, Christian Sohilait said this consideration was partly due to the evolution of the COVID-19 virus with new symptoms.

"The next issue before the face-to-face teaching and learning process is carried out is the presence of a new type of corona virus, so this is an important consideration whether schools will remain open," he said as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, December 30.

According to him, based on the previous joint meeting with the heads of the Provincial Education Offices in Indonesia, in the end there were several provinces that withdrew the circular about the face-to-face teaching and learning process.

"Therefore, we ask for immediate input from the Heads of Education Offices throughout Papua," he said.

He explained that his party would encourage the issuance of a regulation in the form of a governor's circular regulating in general the face-to-face teaching and learning process in accordance with the Joint Ministry Decree.

"Because the policy in Papua cannot be generalized that all schools must be opened or closed," he said.

He added that this was due to the fact that the number of COVID-19 transmission in Papua continued to increase and a new virus was threatening.

Meanwhile, if you force schools to continue to be closed, there are areas that cannot be reached by the internet, making it very difficult to learn online, said Christian Sohilait.