Bogor City Government Forms A Special Team To Dismantle PPDB Brokers

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya was interviewed after conducting a surprise inspection at the Bogor City Education Office, Friday (7/7/2023). ANTARA/HO/Bogor City Government

BOGOR - The Bogor City Government, West Java formed a special team to dismantle the new student admission broker (PPBD) which went viral because there was fraud entrusting the child's identity on the school's closest family card and allegations of manipulation of other population data.

"So the results in the field showed that there were many violations, fake family cards, family cards that were updated but did not match, between domicile and existing documents," said Bogor Mayor Bima Arya after conducting a surprise inspection at the Bogor City Education Office, reported by ANTARA, Friday, July 7.

On that basis, said Bima, the Bogor City Government decided to form a special team to dismantle and trace and ensure that all PPBDs comply with the rules. This team is led by government assistants and consists of Dukcapil, Disdik ranks and there are six sub-district heads.

This team is tasked with tracing fraud and brokers, verifying factuals in the field for junior high school registrants. Bima said this was because the results of a surprise inspection to SMPN 1 Bogor City were not carried out factual verification in the field and this team would work hard for the next one, two days before the announcement.

Bima stated that the announcement of acceptance of the registration of junior high school students was postponed by one day, from July 10, 2023 to July 11, 2023, to provide an opportunity for this team to verify everything again.

"So we make sure no one plays with family card data," he said.

In addition, Bima said, this team is also tasked with conducting field searches related to junior high school students who register for high school.

However, because high school is not the domain of the city government, this team will only provide recommendations to the West Java Education branch office (KCD) and to high school schools related to names that are not appropriate in their family card data.

Bima gave the inspectorate a special task, to investigate who was responsible for violations of population data.

"The sure thing is that this team works according to the target I set earlier," he said.