President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has actually touted online courses as the default mode of learning for lots of university students as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has actually revealed no signs of abating anytime quickly.
Talking to a number of university rectors throughout a virtual Indonesian Rectors Online forum conference on Saturday, Jokowi said that online lectures were however one of numerous methods the country’s academic community had actually adjusted to the present health crisis, calling them part of “the next regular”.
” Online courses, which had previously been slowly executed, have actually now picked up steam. Online lectures have actually ended up being a brand-new normal– even the next regular,” he remarked during his opening address.
” I think that more ingenious and efficient norms will continue to emerge [amid the pandemic].”
To that end, Jokowi got in touch with the rectors online forum to bridge goals between members of academic community and to facilitate practical applications of academic knowledge to real-world markets so that trainees could end up being fully equipped to contribute to national advancement.
He also urged universities to work as an environment where nationalism, diversity and tolerance might flourish as they were important to the nation’s democracy.
” Ladies and gentlemen, you are the ‘moms and dads’ [of your students] who are accountable for their future, as well as Indonesia’s future,” Jokowi stated.
However, the adoption of technology stays an obstacle for the Indonesian education system.
A 2019 report provided by worldwide mobile communications industry body GSMA demonstrated a broad digital gap between individuals residing in urban and backwoods. About 45 percent of Indonesians reside in rural areas.
