All Schools Have Comply With Health Protocol Standards, Palu City Is Ready To Implement Face-to-Face Learning

Document - Face-to-face learning simulation at SDN Karang Raharja 02, Cikarang, Bekasi Regency, West Java, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 (Fakhri Hermansyah/Antara)

JAKARTA - Head of the Education and Culture Office (Disdikbud) of Palu City, Central Sulawesi, Ansyar Sutiadi stated that all schools from early childhood to junior high school are ready to carry out face-to-face learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"All schools have complied with education protocol standards based on health protocols (prokes) to prevent the transmission and spread of COVID-19," he said in Palu, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, June 30.

These include providing handwashing facilities or sinks, body temperature measuring devices or Thermo Guns, hand sanitizers, masks, limiting the capacity of teaching and learning rooms to be filled by students to only 50 percent of the room's capacity.

In addition to providing the facilities and infrastructure, Ansyar stated that his party has also provided briefing and understanding to parents of students, students, educators, and education staff on the procedures for carrying out face-to-face learning by strictly following the pro-process-based education protocol during the pandemic.

"We have also held face-to-face learning simulations several times, so from the simulation results, we are confident that we can carry out face-to-face learning, even though Palu is currently in the red zone for the spread of COVID-19," he said.

However, he explained that his party did not force students if they still did not want to take part in face-to-face learning.

Therefore, the Palu Education and Culture Office prepared a form for students' willingness to take part in face-to-face learning which was filled out by the parents of the students.

"But we return to the decision of the Mayor of Palu, whether to decide to carry out face-to-face learning or to keep delaying until Palu is out of the red zone," he said.