The Education and Culture Ministry has revealed that the country will enable phased reopening of schools located in COVID-19 low-risk locations, or “green zones”, starting in July.
A joint ministerial decree by the education minister, religious affairs minister, house minister and health minister was announced on Monday to manage the school resuming during the pandemic.
” We ' ll allow schools in green zones to resume,” Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim said in Monday ' s online interview.
” Around 90 cities and regencies across Indonesia are considered green zones. The variety of trainees in those areas is roughly comparable to 6 percent of all trainees in the nation. This implies the remaining 94 percent still have to continue their education through online learning,” added Nadiem.
According to the ministry’s official academic calendar, the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year is slated for July13
In journalism conference, nationwide COVID-19 job force primary Doni Monardo said the task force had actually mapped the risk status of all regions in the country affected by the COVID-19 pandemic based upon 15 indications from the World Health Organization. The indicators, which consist of the number of new cases, suspects and fatalities to name a few things, figure out whether the regions fall under the green, yellow, orange or red category.
” The status of a region might alter easily based on the progress of COVID-19 transmission in the location,” Doni said.
Nadiem explained that the ministry would hand the decision to reopen schools in certain green zones to their respective local administration.
” Even if the regional administrations decide to reopen schools, the schools still have to fulfill our strict requirements and health protocols before resuming,” he said.
For the resuming, the schools are needed to have clean toilets, hand-washing facilities, disinfectant, thermo weapons and access to health centers. They need to also supply locations where using a face mask is obligatory.
” Students, instructors or moms and dads who are sick or have a comorbidity are recommended not to go to schools. Those who had actually taken a trip outside the green zone area must also self-isolate for 14 days before going to schools,” Nadiem said.
Throughout the initial phase, the ministry will just allow senior and junior highs to reopen. Primary schools will be able to follow suit 2 months after, while kindergartens four months after.
After the resuming, all students have to follow physical distancing measures and use masks. Schools are needed to restrict the amount of students per class to 18, or approximately 50 percent of the previous capacity.
” As a repercussion, schools need to implement a shift system to be able to accommodate all students,” Nadiem said. “Meanwhile, boarding schools are still forbidden from resuming their dormitories for a minimum of for 2 months after reopening.”
Throughout the initial 2 months after resuming, schools are prevented from running their canteens and lunchrooms. Athletics classes and after-school activities are likewise restricted.
Nadiem further stated that parents would have the last word on whether they would enable their children to go to school or not.
” Schools can not require parents to enable their children to attend. If they are not comfy letting their children go to school, the school ought to enable the trainees to resume their online learning,” he included.
The minister likewise said schools might be closed again if there was any COVID-19 transmission in the area, or if the risk status of the area had altered to yellow, orange or red.
