Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Asks PPDB To Be Designed By Regional Government A Year Before Opening

Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Muhadjir Effendy (ANTARA)

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy asked local government officials (Pemda) to be more careful in planning the process of New Student Admissions (PPDB) in the future.

"Essentially, we ask that local governments be more careful in making PPDB planning, don't be too close in time during the admission period," Muhadjir said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 18.

The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture reminded that actually PPDB can be designed even a year before opening.

"Once the children enter grade 6 next year they will be prospective junior high school students, they should have been coordinated between school principals, each service head," he said.

Muhadjir hopes that the same thing will be done for PPDB at the high school level, so that prospective students already know where he can register, so that if there are certain problems, they can be resolved long before PPDB.

The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture assessed that more mature planning could avoid repeated problems related to the implementation of PPDB this year in the future.

"I already have data, so there aren't many cases, only almost all regions have cases," said Muhadjir.

According to the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture with the current findings, it should have been resolved in each region if the local government was more proactive, so there was no need to be a problem handled by the Central Government.

Nevertheless, Muhadjir ensured that his party would continue to evaluate the implementation of PPDB this year.

Muhadjir also said that regarding a number of PPDB frauds such as falsification of addresses or manipulation of the values of prospective students, they could continue to be anticipated and handled through proactive confirmation practices.

The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture also emphasized that the fraudulent practices that occurred at the same time showed public perceptions about favorite/non-favorite schools were still ongoing and the task of local governments in equitable distribution of the quality of education must continue to be improved.

"If (the quality of education) is evenly distributed and the perception of society is the same (receiving) that this school anywhere is the same, I don't think there is a problem like that," said Muhadjir.