9 Primary Schools in Mataram Do Not Fully Participate in 2026 Academic Ability Test Due to Lack of Computers

A total of 7,094 primary school (SD) students in Mataram City participated in the 2026 Academic Ability Test (TKA) this week. However, the Mataram City Education Office (Disdik) recorded that several schools were still unable to fully participate due to various constraints.

“There are schools that carried it out, and there are schools that did not. For public primary schools, the achievement is 100 percent. But for private schools, some did not participate, so the achievement is 97 percent,” said the Head of the Mataram City Education Office (Disdik), Yusuf, when confirmed in Mataram on Monday (20/4/2026).

Yusuf stated that the implementation of the TKA for the primary school level in Mataram City is taking place in stages. This is because the availability of computers in each school varies considerably.

“In waves, there is session one, session two, session three. It all depends on the capacity of the Chromebooks owned. If there are none (computers), they are entrusted or borrowed from teachers, so they use laptops,” he said.

“If there are only 5 computers/laptops, they will be divided according to the number of students. Then, they will be divided into several sessions,” Yusuf continued.

Yusuf revealed that out of 179 public and private primary schools in Mataram City, there are 9 schools whose TKA participation achievement is not 100 percent. With an average participation percentage of 81-98 percent.

Previously reported, the Head of the Education Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment Agency of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (BSKAP Kemendikdasmen), Toni Taharudin, revealed that nearly 98 percent of primary and junior secondary students are ready to take the TKA 2026.

Toni said he continues to think positively that the high interest in TKA is because schools, teachers, and students now have increasingly good awareness. Considering that TKA is a nationally standardised assessment.

Not only to measure students’ academic achievements, the TKA combined with the National Assessment (AN) is useful for measuring the quality of education in all educational units and regions.

“If I think positively, that every school, even every teacher, student has increasingly good student culture awareness and that is what we hope for. If the student culture is already good, then improvement in quality will be easier, because we can know each weakness (and carry out) reflection,” said Toni after the Kemendikdasmen Halalbihalal event at Building A of Kemendikdasmen, Senayan, Central Jakarta, previously quoted by detikEdu.