DKI Disdik Bans Students In Jakarta From Touring Outside School Studies

The condition of the bus and motorcycle carcasses involved in the accident in Palasari Village, Ciater District, Subang Regency, West Java, Saturday 11 May. (ANTARA PHOTO-Raisan Al Farisi)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Education Office (Disdik) has prohibited all education units in Jakarta from holding farewell events and tour studies from outside the school. This is an affirmation of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (Pemprov) through the Education Office (Disdik) after the deadly bus accident carrying students from Depok in Ciater, Subang, West Java, on Saturday 11 May night. "So the separation and tour study are not going anywhere, only in the respective school environments using the existing facilities," said Acting Head of DKI Jakarta Education Office Purwosusilo when contacted, Tuesday, May 14, was confiscated by Antara. The DKI Jakarta Education Office has also issued a circular (SE) since April 30, 2024. In SE Number e-0017/SE/2024 it is explained that separation activities can only be carried out in the school environment.

According to him, if the separation or traveling activities are carried out outside the school, it will burden some parents and pose a higher risk. "So if holding outside the school is burdensome in terms of costs and is also risky," said Purwosusilo. In addition, Purwosusilo admitted that he received many complaints from parents related to educational units that still hold farewell activities or traveling outside the school environment. "Many have complained and we have followed up to cancel or be held in schools. All of us follow up by calling the principal," he said.

Then Disdik directed to hold (separation) in schools using existing school facilities.Purwosusilo stated that educational units that still want to carry out separations and "study tours" outside schools will go through several stages of coaching and monitoring from the DKI Jakarta Education Office. "The Education Office in their respective regions also monitors. We persuasively, from the start we carried out persuasive actions, starting from no savings for activities at the end of the year and so on," said Purwosusilo.