Lecturer Lack, Jayapura Regency Government Contract 143 Teachers Help

Contract teacher applicants when checking the administrative test results at the Jayapura District Education and Teaching Office. (ANTARA)

SENTANI - Jayapura Regency Government (Pemkab), Papua through the local Education and Teaching Office in 2023 recruited contract teachers at the elementary and junior high school education levels.

Head of the Jayapura Regency Education and Teaching Office Eqberth Kopeuw in Sentani, Wednesday, said that 425 contract teachers in the previous area had decreased after in 2022 as many as 143 people passed Government Employees with Work Agreements (P3K).

"So to cover the vacancy, in 2023 we recruit to add contract teachers," he said.

According to Kopeuw, the recruitment of contract teachers at the elementary school level as classroom teachers and junior high school levels is a subject teacher.

Even so, the recruitment of contract teachers still does not meet the needs of teaching staff within the Jayapura Regency Education and Teaching Office.

"We still really need around 300 teachers in elementary and junior high schools and high schools/vocational schools," he said.

He explained that currently 460 people have registered as contract teachers and participated in administrative selection on Wednesday (8/2).

Furthermore, he said, the results were immediately announced if they passed, Thursday (9/2) they would take a written test and then the interview test continued with teaching practice.

"So we will get 134 people out of 460 people and a Decree (SK) will be made to teach," he said again.

He added that his party needed 134 contract teachers to be placed in all places where for elementary school it needed around 70 people and the rest filled the void as subjects teachers at junior high school.