Firm! Nunukan Regent Asmin Laura Forbids Students From Entering School, If Not Vaccinated

Vaccination of school children in Nunukan/ Antara

NUNUKAN - The Regent of Nunukan, North Kalimantan, Asmin Laura Hafid forbade students who have not undergone the COVID-19 vaccination to attend face-to-face learning (PTM) at school.

"Students who have not been vaccinated are not allowed to join PTM. That's why we try to give all students the vaccine so that PTM runs smoothly," Laura said after reviewing the vaccination implementation at SMPN 1 South Nunukan, Nunukan Regency, Kaltara, as reported by Antara, Monday, September 27.

He said the ban was based on a statement from the Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, Nadiem Makarim, who gave the local government (local government) the flexibility to open face-to-face learning in schools on condition that students had been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Laura stated that currently the Nunukan Regency Government is focusing on COVID-19 vaccination for students, especially on Nunukan Island and Sebatik Island. It will depend on the availability of the vaccine later. However, he stressed, it will not allow schools to include PTM for students who have not been vaccinated. "It is not allowed to join PTM first for students who have not been vaccinated," said the Nunukan Regent.

For this reason, the Nunukan Regency Government in the future will provide special vaccines for students so that all schools can start implementing PTM. Because, for more than a year, learning can only be done online. However, the children are getting bored, so the parents want PTM to be reopened.

It's just that, to open PTM as a whole in schools, students must take the vaccine first. Therefore, the Regent of Nunukan invited parents to take their children to be vaccinated if there were vaccination activities.