JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Education Office, Nahdiana, admitted that she had traced the data from the Director General of PAUD Dikdasmen Kemendikbudristek regarding the findings of 25 COVID-19 clusters of schools in DKI Jakarta which were released on the Kemendikbudristek website.

Based on the search, it turns out that the data for the 25 COVID-19 clusters was taken from a survey conducted on school respondents. This cluster was not determined based on the results of the DKI Health Office's surveillance of positive cases of COVID-19.

"The survey was carried out for the period from January to September 2021, so it does not describe new cases after the Limited PTM started," said Nahdiana to reporters, Friday, September 24.

Nahdiana explained, of the 25 schools declared to be in the COVID-19 cluster, only 2 schools were included in the 610 schools participating in Limited PTM Phase 1, starting on August 30, 2021, namely Cindera Mata Indah Middle School and Yadika 2 Vocational High School Jakarta.

"Based on data in the field, since the start of the Limited PTM Phase 1, there have been no cases of COVID-19 in the school, either from students or educators and education staff," he said. school.data.kemdikbud.go.id. This data was collected from a survey of 900 school respondents.

As a result, Kemendikbudristek noted that there were 25 clusters in PTM and 875 schools that did not have clusters in PTM. It was also noted that 227 educators and education staff were confirmed positive for COVID-19 and 241 students were confirmed positive for COVID-19.

However, so far the DKI Disdik has only found one school COVID-19 cluster holding PTM. This school was declared a COVID-19 cluster because it had a confirmed case that infected another student at the educational institution.

In addition to one school that was registered as a COVID-19 cluster, there were five other schools that were recorded to have COVID-19 cases during the PTM implementation but had not been named as clusters.

These schools include COVID-19 cases for teachers at SMK 66 Jakarta, students at SDN Pondok Ranggon 02, SMP PGRI 20 teachers, SMA Negeri 25 teachers, and students at SMA Negeri 20. With the findings of these cases, 6 schools have been temporarily closed. . However, currently limited PTM resumed.


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