Through Jakarta Education Agency (Disdik), the Jakarta administration is forced to postpone limited school opening trial with blended learning in schools spread over Jakarta, as Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the capital city.

It is done to prevent new cluster

Jakarta Education Agency (Disdik) Head, Nahdiana revealed that learning activities would be conducted out at home or online while waiting for further decisions. "It is done to prevent new cluster," she expressed, as quoted by Jakarta PPID's press release.

It was taken according to Governor Decree number 759/2021 on the Micro-scale Public Activity Restrictions (PPKM Mikro and Governor Instruction number 39/2021 on Extension of PPKM Mikro at RT level.

Nevertheless, the agency was continuously urging all school principals to make preparations in anticipating the implementation of blended learning in the 2021/2022 school year. They also educated students and parents about the discipline of implementing health protocols accompanied by supervisors and heads of sub-district education executing units.

Previously, face-to-face learning had been tested on April 7 to 29 towards 83 schools, starting from SD/MI, SMP/MTs, SMA/MA, SMK and course institutions, including cooperative and international schools.

Then it was followed by the addition of 143 schools that had passed the assessment, training, and had been vaccinated against Covid-19 for teachers and education personnel. The trial with 143 education units was previously planned to start on June 9 to 24.

In its execution, it went successfully and was greeted enthusiastically by students, teachers, and parents of students with zero case.