North Sumatra Education Office Reports There Are 50 SMA Lalai Input Value PDSS

North Sumatra Governor's Office (ANTARA/HO)

A total of 50 High Schools (SMA) in the North Sumatra (North Sumatra) region neglects to input the value of eligible students on the School Database and Students portal (PDSS). This is in accordance with data from the North Sumatra Provincial Education Office. The Head of the SMA Development Division of the North Sumatra Provincial Education Office, Basir Hasibuan, said that the negligence of a number of schools caused delays in the finalization of student value data to participate in the Achievement-Based National Selection (SNBP) in the 2025 National Selection of New Student Admissions (SNPMB). "Today we hear a lot of information, based on data on many schools that were late in inputting value data to PDSS, so that they could not register through the SNBP route," Basir said in Medan, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, February 8. Basir said that PDSS is a database containing school performance track records and student report cards that meet the requirements for registering SNMPTN. This, he said, was stated in Permendikbud Regulation Number 48 of 2022 concerning New Student Admission Program Diploma and Bachelor Program at Higher Education. According to schedule, value filling in PDSS began to open from 6-31 January 2025 and extra time until February 2, 2025. With that issue, Basir said, his party has made various efforts, among others by submitting letters to the Indonesian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Kemendiksaintek) requesting to extend the filling of the PDSS.

He hopes that the ministry can provide an opportunity for schools to refill PDSS so that students who are threatened with failing to participate in SNPB are not harmed. "Even half a day so, schools can complete the value input. It's a pity that the students who excel in the school don't have the opportunity to register and take the opportunity," he said. However, Basri emphasized that his party would provide guidance to schools that were negligent in the matter in order to anticipate the same thing, so that no students would feel disadvantaged in the future. "We will not allow school negligence, but for this we are talking about children's dream to get the same opportunities," he said. North Sumatra DPRD chairman Erni Ariyanti previously asked the local Education Office to resolve the problems faced by a number of students who failed to register for SNBP in the 2025 SNPMB. "We encourage the Education Office to immediately resolve this problem," said Erni Ariyanti. His party is also still coordinating with Commission E of the North Sumatra DPRD to summon the school and the North Sumatra Education Office regarding this problem.