Involving High School And Vocational High School Students, Makassar Bawaslu Educate Beginner Voters Through The Bagoes Program

Head of Makassar City Bawaslu Abdillah Mustari (four left) and his staff take a photo with the Secretary of the South Sulawesi Education Office Harpansa (three right) after a meeting at the Makassar Education Office

MAkASSAR - The Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Makassar City, South Sulawesi, immediately involved high school and vocational high school students with the equivalent through the Bagoes program which is part of political education education for novice voters. In an effort to break political views and bad habits, one of them is money politics," said Head of Makassar Bawaslu Abdillah Mustari in Makassar, Tuesday 24 May. will involve students as novice voters. In addition, this political education provides an understanding of the enforcement of election regulations. In order to maximize Bagoes activities, his party has developed a strategy targeting schools in the capital city of South Sulawesi Province. coordination meeting d with school principals and educators on May 25, 2022. This meeting was attended by 15 representatives from schools divided by one school for each sub-district. "We really hope that representatives from the South Sulawesi Education Office can also attend as resource persons," Abdillah said as quoted by Antara.

Secretary of the Education Office of South Sulawesi Province, Harpansa, welcomed the activity. In fact, his party is ready to support it by providing access to schools at the SMA/SMK and equivalent levels in Makassar. good politics from an early age. We from the Education Office are very supportive," said Harpansa. As a first step, his party should provide access by writing to public and private schools to respond to Bagoes activities after Bawaslu wrote to Disdik. He mentioned the number of public high schools in this area there were 23 school units, 10 state vocational schools, and the rest were private.