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        "msgid": "sman-1-jonggat-closed-after-students-protest-over-school-facilities-1786441895",
        "date": "2026-08-11 15:59:27",
        "title": "SMAN 1 Jonggat Closed After Students Protest Over School Facilities",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK_BALI",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "SMAN 1 Jonggat in Central Lombok was temporarily closed on Tuesday after hundreds of students staged a protest over inadequate facilities. The school headmaster stated the closure was to allow a meeting with education officials to address the students' concerns. The protest, which turned unruly, highlighted complaints about broken toilets, a mosque, and non-functional fans and lighting.",
        "content": "<p>Hundreds of students from SMAN 1 Jonggat, Central Lombok, West Nusa\nTenggara, who protested the previous day, have been given a day off. The\ndecision was taken because the school is holding a meeting with teachers\nand education officials to respond to the students\u2019 aspirations. \u201cWe\ngave them the day off because there is a meeting with the teachers, the\nhead of the education department, and the branch head. It would be\ndifficult if the children were not supervised,\u201d said SMAN 1 Jonggat\nheadmaster Mzahab to journalists on Tuesday (11\/8\/2026). According to\nMzahab, the students\u2019 expression of their aspirations is normal given\ntheir school age. The school has chosen to sit down together to find\nsolutions and improve areas that are still lacking. \u201cAlhamdulillah, we\nare trying to immediately coordinate to restore the situation.\nYesterday, the students conveyed their aspirations with enthusiasm and a\nspirit of finding a joint solution,\u201d he said. Mzahab stated that the\nstudents\u2019 delivery of their aspirations must be viewed from the\nperspective of their age. He noted that what adults might consider\ninappropriate may not be so from a child\u2019s point of view. However,\noverall, the school considers the action as material for evaluation.\n\u201cFor children, conveying aspirations like this is normal. If we use\nadult standards, we might feel it\u2019s lacking or excessive. But for\nchildren, we understand. The parameters for their age are indeed like\nthat,\u201d he added. Therefore, Mzahab said, the meeting and coordination\nwere carried out in a spirit of togetherness. The school has also heard\nall the students\u2019 aspirations and is committed to using them as\nevaluation material to review services and facilities that need\nimprovement. \u201cWe are looking for solutions, not looking for mistakes.\nThese aspirations are good. They serve as a reflection that there are\nthings that need to be fulfilled and things that need to be fixed,\u201d he\nstressed. However, Mzahab has not yet confirmed whether all the points\nraised by the students are actual problems. The aspirations still need\nto be analysed and verified. \u201cWe haven\u2019t analysed them yet; not\neverything is necessarily true. But it\u2019s also impossible that everything\nis wrong. We will resolve the parts that are lacking,\u201d he said. One of\nthe issues raised by the students concerned electrical facilities. The\nschool said the repair process took time because the technician had not\narrived previously. \u201cThe electrician hadn\u2019t come since yesterday. But he\nhas arrived now. This means everything takes a process,\u201d he said.\nAccording to him, the difference in perspective between adults and\nchildren must also be understood when looking at the issue. What adults\nsee as a process of resolution might be perceived differently by\nstudents. \u201cThey are children, so sometimes their point of view is\ndifferent. Alhamdulillah, there is a resolution process,\u201d he concluded.\nPreviously, hundreds of SMAN 1 Jonggat students protested about school\nfacilities they deemed inadequate. The protest, which ended in a\ncommotion, took place on the school field after the flag ceremony on\nMonday (10\/8\/2026). According to information gathered by detikBali, the\nstudents voiced several complaints about school facilities that had not\nbeen repaired. These complaints included the toilets, the prayer room,\nand non-functioning fans in several classrooms. \u201cThe toilets and prayer\nroom are still not finished. Some classrooms also have no lights, and\nthe fans are just for show because they don\u2019t work,\u201d said a student who\ndeclined to be named on Monday afternoon. Students also complained that\nthe school\u2019s WiFi could not be used to access the internet optimally.\nThey even claimed they were not given any information regarding its\naccess or usage.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/sman-1-jonggat-closed-after-students-protest-over-school-facilities-1786441895",
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