To refine its school enrollment
zoning system policy, the Education and Culture Ministry recently issued
Ministerial Decree No. 14/2018 on the policy's implementation, seeking to boost
the overall quality of the country's education through nondiscriminative and
transparent school enrollment methods for elementary and junior high school
students.
The policy classifies schools in
each regency and city into separate zones and mandates that schools enroll
students living in their vicinity to make sure that no student has to travel
far to attend lessons.
The policy will be applied across
elementary, junior high and senior high schools, while vocational schools are
exempt from the policy.
“Through the new ministerial
decree, the ministry has simplified the old regulation by revising a number of
terms detailing the implementation of the school enrollment zoning system,
starting from its requirements, selection, school zone classification and
distribution of students,” Education and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy said
on May 30.
According to Elementary and
Secondary Education Director General Hamid Muhammad, the new ministerial decree
was formulated based on feedback from education agencies across the country
concerning obstacles they faced in implementing the new system in the field.
These new regulation results
number of arguments. From the pro side spoken up by some related responsible
people for the change of regulation, zoning school helps granting equality,
calming the traffic in the morning, preventing uneven distribution of education
quality and ‘selling seats’ or jual bangku as well as developing
students’ social skills such as greeting people on the road.
However, many also disagree as
they see that grades are thought to be the most important particle of education
quality. Imagining that student candidates will less endeavour the good grades
knowing that they would be auto-admitted to the school nearby, education
quality will instead be seriously endangered.
Beside that there are many
positive and negative arguments. In your opinion, does the zoning enrollment
system make quality of our education better?
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