DPRD: Equality Of State And Private Schools Becomes The Hope Of Surabaya Citizens

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JAKARTA - Member of Commission B of the Surabaya DPRD, Zuhrotul Mar'ah Laila, said that residents had hopes of equality in public and private schools.

"One of the recess activities at 12 points, residents hope that public schools will be established in each kelurahan so that the zoning programmed by the government can be enjoyed by all residents, but still not kill private schools," said Zuhrotul Mar'ah in Surabaya, East Java, Friday, February 3.

In addition, it is also necessary to re-collect which students need assistance regarding the costs of their school needs. The reason is, in the field there are still many children whose tuition fees have not been paid for more than a year.

"This affects students to be able to take practical exams or not," he said as quoted by Antara.

Residents want equality of school financing for students who are included in the Low-Income Community (MBR) category, both in public and private.

In addition to schools, he said, it was also stated about the universal Health Coverage (UHC) which was guaranteed to finance their health. The people of Surabaya have 99.6 percent registered with BPJS, both independent and PBI (Recipients of Contribution Assistance) both paid by the state and the regions.

"The problem is that BPJS PBI participants are not distributed in all first-level Health Facilities (FKTP) throughout Surabaya, but BPJS participation is only at certain FKTPs. We encourage the city government to be able to bridge so that private FKTP does not die little by little because of the reduced number of BPJS participants," he said.

Another problem is the issue of economic empowerment for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Surabaya.

According to him, the Surabaya City Government (Pemkot) has budgeted IDR 3 trillion for the economic empowerment of MSMEs. However, he continued, in the field, MSMEs eat and drink actors who have entered the E-peken complained that they had never received orders.

"They hope to get orders for MSMEs that have entered the E-peken. In addition, they are also assisted in marketing their products," he said.