Troubled PPDB Applicants In Bogor City Increase, 297 Students Disqualified

An illustration of children registering for PPDB (ANTARA)

BOGOR- The number of registrants for New Student Admissions or problematic junior high school PPDBs in Bogor City has increased. Currently, there are as many as 297 applicants for PPDB SMPN in Bogor City who are indicated to be problematic, or register for school using false population data. The number of problematic data is known based on the results of factual verification carried out by the Bogor City Government Special Team (Pemkot). As stated by the Deputy Mayor of Bogor, Dedie A Rachim. Yesterday, the Bogor City Government PPDB Team followed up on findings in the field, there were 297 prospective students who might be disqualified to participate in the PPDB online zoning," said Dedie A Rachim on Tuesday, July 11. According to him, as many as 297 prospective students were concerned with problems of violations on administration. Especially at non-proper displacements, then there were also some who entered into document falsifications, he said. Even so, according to Dedie A Rachim, his party will still explore the issue of alleged document forgery.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Verification Team, Irwan Riyanto, said that of the approximately 900 prospective PPDB registrant students who had problems, 577 students were considered appropriate data. "The remaining 36 (student candidates), 900 (data deemed problematic) obtained by us. The remaining three turned out to be Regency data sent to us," he said.