Mendikdasmen: PPPK Teachers Can Teach In Private Schools Starting 2025

Minister of Basic and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu'ti gave a statement at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Tuesday (26/11/2024). ANTARA/Mentari Dwi Gayati

JAKARTA - The government has decided that teachers with the status of Government Employees with Work Agreements (PPPK) can teach in private schools starting in 2025 as an effort to overcome the problem of teacher distribution inequality.

"It has been approved by Men-PAN. So the private teacher who passes the PPPK can teach in the private sector," said Minister of Basic and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu'ti as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 26.

Mu'ti said the decision had been approved by the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Men-PAN RB) and was just waiting for the issuance of an official letter.

According to Mu'ti, this is good news for teachers, especially now that more than 100 thousand private teachers have PPPK status, but have not been placed in public schools.

"Indeed, not all of them can be distributed, yes. Therefore, according to our discussion with Men-PAN, the PPPK teacher can teach in the private sector," said Mu'ti.

He assessed that the ratio between the number of teachers and students in Indonesia was basically ideal, so the main challenge in basic and secondary education was the uneven distribution of teachers, especially in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas.

Previously, the placement of the PPPK teacher also received attention from Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who in his direction at the Coordination Meeting on the Evaluation of Basic and Secondary Education Policy in Jakarta, also underlined the problem.

Gibran said there are provinces with school conditions that are over Teachers, while there are other provinces whose school conditions are experiencing teacher shortages so that the distribution of teachers, especially those with PPPK status, becomes the homework of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

"So please, ladies and gentlemen, during the coordination meeting, you can provide input because the number of our teachers is not evenly distributed. There are provinces where there are advantages of teachers, there are provinces where teachers are lacking. This will certainly be homework for the Minister," said Gibran.