Ahead Of PTM July 2021, Kemendikbud Ristek Asked To Provide COVID-19 School Task Force

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JAKARTA - Vice chairman of the House of Representatives Muhaimin Iskandar asked the Ministry of Cultural Education Research and Higher Education (Kemendikbud Ristek) together with the local government to supervise schools that are currently conducting trials or have opened face-to-face learning (PTM).

According to him, the government should accelerate vaccination programs, especially to teachers and students who will do face-to-face learning in schools. Considering that there are now schools that do face-to-face learning and simultaneous plans will begin in July 2021.

"It is necessary to establish a Task Force (Task Force) handling COVID-19 schools so that the implementation of health protocols (prokes) can be applied in a disciplined manner," muhaimin said at the DPR /MPR building, Senayan, Thursday, May 20.

Gus Ami assessed, Kemendikbud Ristek through the education office must also be assertive by stopping the process of face-to-face learning to schools found cases of the spread of COVID-19 or violations of prokes. Such as the case of school clusters that occurred in Batang and West Sumatra, as well as violations of prokes at school graduations in Mojokerto.

"The Ministry of Education together with the education office in each province and district / city must be able to ensure that schools already have the facilities and infrastructure to support the implementation of the program, as well as ensure related Human Resources (HR) such as teachers, students, and school officials, already have a commitment to discipline in applying prokes," explained the Chairman of the Covid-19 Disaster Management Supervision Team of the House of Representatives.

Ketum PKB also asked the Education Office and related schools must already have regulations or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) related to face-to-face learning at the time of the pandemic. This includes arrangements regarding the number of teachers and students attending a single learning day as well as the number of lesson hours.

"Local governments through the education office must provide COVID-19 test facilities, either polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests or antigens periodically to teachers, students, and school officials," muhaimin said.