PJP Criticized For Eliminating Religious Phrases, Minister Of Education And Culture Nadiem: Still A Concept, We Are Perfecting It

Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Makarim (Photo: Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud RI) Nadiem Makarim explained about the national education road map (PJP) which was criticized for eliminating religious phrases at a working meeting (Raker) with Commission X of the Indonesian Parliament at the Parliament Complex, Wednesday, March 10.

Nadiem said that PJP is currently still pre-conceptual. "This roadmap is a draft or what can be called a pre-concept," said Nadiem.

According to Nadiem, if the PJP has been discussed in detail, various kinds of input from the public cannot be obtained. However, he will use the Committee X committee's recommendation as input for refining the existing draft education roadmap.

"We will certainly continue to live it, we will study it and we will continue to perfect it," he said

In line with Nadiem, Chairman of Commission X DPR RI, Syaiful Huda, said that the 2020-2035 PJP that was made by the Ministry of Education and Culture was still a pre-concept.

"Based on the document in the pdf softfile format of the education road map submitted by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia at the meeting on May 20, 2020, with the title Roadmap for Indonesian Education 2020-2035, which amounts to 73 pages, the document cannot be said to be a concept for an education road map, but it is still at the level pre-concept, "he explained.

However, Huda assessed that the 2020-2035 education roadmap reviewed by the Ministry of Education and Culture was not in line with the opening of the fourth paragraph of the 1945 Constitution, as well as Article 31 and Article 32 of the 1945 Constitution.

According to him, the road map for education must be based on religious values to the cultural traditions of the archipelago.

"In formulating a character education policy, the education roadmap must make the religious values, the cultural traditions of the archipelago, the historical aspects of archipelago education, and the thoughts of educational figures, religious leaders, as well as national cultural figures, as the basis for thinking about character education," he concluded.