Teacher Vaccination Completed, Minister Of Education And Culture Nadiem Gives Options For Studying At School Or Staying At Home

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

JAKARTA - The Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Makarim, obliged all schools to provide students with limited face-to-face learning options. If the vaccination of teachers and students in the second period has been running.

"After vaccination for all teachers and educators. The teaching unit is obliged to provide face-to-face learning service options. This means that they must serve face-to-face," said Nadiem in a meeting with Commission X DPR RI, Thursday, March 18.

It is known, the government has targeted face-to-face learning to have opened in all schools by July 2021 or entering a new school year.

However, continued Nadiem, for parents who do not want their children to participate in face-to-face learning, they are allowed not to participate.

"For parents who do not want their child face to face. It is their decision for the child to still be at home," he explained.

Nadiem said the face-to-face learning obligation was carried out with a mixed system. Where the school also provides distance learning.

"It is also possible for the school to arrange for only two days of face-to-face learning, the rest is still remote," he said.

Nadiem added, the government deliberately obliged to open face-to-face learning with these conditions so that the target achievement in July 2021 could be paid in installments for all schools to be held face-to-face.

"So it's in reality if we don't pay in installments, we won't arrive, in July everything will start," said Nadiem.

Nadiem also explained five facts about why vaccination is important before face-to-face learning activities are carried out.

First, students in the 3-30 year age group have lower risk factors than other age groups.

Both students, educators and education personnel in the 31-59 year age group have significantly higher risk factors for COVID-19.

Third, children are less infected than adults and generally have mild symptoms.

Fourth, transmission to children mainly occurs in social activities outside the classroom, not during face-to-face learning in the classroom.

Fifth, children are more infected than adults who have been infected with COVID-19 first.

"In the effort to accelerate face-to-face learning, educators and education personnel are the main parties who need protection," said Nadiem.