Mendikdasmen Tunggu Jawab Presiden Soal Aturan Terbaru Penempatan Guru PPPK

Mendikdasmen Abdul Mu'ti/ANTARA/Hana Kinarina)

JAKARTA - Minister of Basic and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu'ti said he is now waiting for an answer from the letter sent to President Prabowo Subianto regarding the placement of the latest teachers with the status of Government Employees with Work Agreements (PPPK).

His party has sent a letter to President Prabowo Subianto to accommodate various similar aspirations from community organizations (ormas) and the profession of education administrators, who requested that the placement of PPPK teachers be reviewed and placed in private schools.

"We are still waiting for the answer to the letter we sent to the President regarding the aspirations we received from the many professional organizations and mass organizations that organize education, who asked that the PPPK teachers be assigned to private schools," Mu'ti said in his remarks at the Discussion of the Infectious Groups and Basic and Secondary Education Policies reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 19.

He also reminded again regarding the issue of the placement of PPPK teachers which is basically closely related to the Regional Autonomy Law and the regional government system, and in turn it affects the distribution of teachers in each region.

This condition makes his party as a government official at the national level not have the authority to resolve problems related to distribution and placement of teachers, including those with PPPK status, thus requiring direct intervention from the President.

"And we at the ministry cannot do anything in that context, because the authority does not exist with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) so that the President's intervention is needed so that it can be part of our policy at the national level," he added.

Even though the data compiled by his party found that the ratio of the number of teachers in Indonesia was quite ideal, namely one in comparison to 15.

However, he did not deny that he still found only one school, especially in private schools, as a result of the uneven distribution of PPPK teacher formations.

Previously, the Minister of Education and Culture, Abdul Mu'ti, said that his party would evaluate the placement of teachers with PPPK status to overcome the problem of teacher distribution inequality.

He mentioned that one of the problems caused was that there were several schools in one area that experienced excess formation of PPPK teachers, while there were private schools in the same area that experienced a shortage of PPPK teacher formations.

Therefore, his party continues to communicate with Commission X of the DPR as a partner of the Ministry of Education and Culture in order to continue to provide the latest information regarding which schools, especially those in electoral districts (dapil) members of Commission X DPR who experience a shortage of PPPK teacher formations.