21 Schools In Riau Flooded, Governor Asks Principal To Apply Online Learning

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Riau Provincial Governor Edy Natar Nasution asked school principals (kepsek) to apply online learning in 21 schools affected by flooding so that the teaching and learning process for students is not disrupted.

"Teaching and learning activities must continue even though students cannot attend classes so that their lessons are not left behind," said Edy in his statement in Pekanbaru, Riau, Wednesday, January 10, which was confiscated by Antara.

According to him, online learning must be easy to hold, especially in recent years, learning using the online learning method or e-learning has been used by various groups, including in Riau during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Online learning, said Edy, can be an alternative for a more flexible and practical learning process and is liked by today's generation of students.

"When online, teachers and students tend to be more attractive so that they increase their interest in learning and this is easy to implement," he said.

Head of the Riau Provincial Education Office, Tengku Fauzan Tambusai, said that as many as 21 educational units or schools affected by flooding were submerged and there were even access roads to closed schools so that they could not be passed.

Therefore, he said, his party had discussed related issues with the Head of the Task Implementation Unit of the District and City Education Offices affected by the flood in order to instruct each school principal whose schools were affected by the flood to carry out online learning.

"Until now, the teaching and learning process is still ongoing, even though there are online or online. We will continue to monitor and if conditions support the face-to-face teaching and learning process, it will be immediately changed to face-to-face," he said.