Principal Of SMAN 5 Bengkulu City And His Representatives Deactivated Due To The Polemic Of PDSS

Assistant I of the Bengkulu Provincial Government Khairil Anwar gave a press statement regarding the PDSS polemic in Bengkulu, Tuesday. (ANTARA/Boyke Ledy Watra)

BENGKULU - The Provincial Government (Pemprov Bengkulu) has disabled the Head of SMA Negeri (SMAN) 5 Bengkulu City regarding the polemic of the School and Student Database (PDSS). "The governor has ordered the Head of the Bengkulu Province Education and Culture to temporarily deactivate the Principal of SMAN 5 together with the deputy principal (of the curriculum) by implementing the presumption of innocence, to speed up the inspection process of the Inspectorate," said Assistant I of the Bengkulu Provincial Government Khairil Anwar in Bengkulu, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, March 5. Governor Rohidin Mersyah took quick steps to overcome the problem by ordering the Bengkulu Inspectorate to go down to conduct an examination. "The second step, the governor has temporarily ordered the dismissal of the Principal of SMAN 5 with his Deputy Principal by implementing the presumption of innocence," he said. Then the third step taken, the Bengkulu Province Education and Culture Office sent a letter to the university regarding the value of the PDSS which was fixed manually. "Sent a letter to the university explaining the actual condition of value, ranking, and copied to the national level selection committee (entered the university)," he said. Furthermore, Khairil Anwar also said that later he would not rule out the possibility of increasing the number of objects examined by the Bengkulu Provincial Inspectorate. "We have disabled the principal and deputy principal in the curriculum sector. But it is possible that from the results of the inspection the inspectorate (increases). When it is needed to be deactivated, we will disable that person," he said.

Previously, the polemic of the PDSS SMAN 5 Bengkulu City began with the report of one of the parents of students who felt aggrieved because the value of the PDSS SMAN 5 Bengkulu City was allegedly engineered. The student's parents reported to the Bengkulu Police. From the documents circulating, one of the MIPA SMAN 5 students in Bengkulu City based on the average value of subjects in report cards from semester I to V should be above the rank of 20. However, when filling out the PDSS system, the Ministry of Education and Culture allegedly had its value engineered into rank 2.