DPD: Restore the spirit of educational autonomy
Semarang (ANTARA) - Member of the Regional Legislative Affairs Agency (BULD) of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) of the Republic of Indonesia, Muhdi, affirmed the necessity of restoring the spirit of educational autonomy in light of the tendency towards centralised policies.
“We engaged in direct dialogue with key stakeholders. There was a great deal of input regarding education policy, particularly the relationship between the central government and regional authorities,” he said in Semarang on Thursday.
He made these remarks during an interactive dialogue on “Monitoring and Evaluation of Draft Regional Regulations and Regional Regulations Related to the Implementation of Education”.
According to him, education is essentially part of regional autonomy, which falls under the authority of provinces and regencies/cities.
However, he said that in practice, many education stakeholders feel that policies are becoming increasingly centralised, making it difficult for regions.
“This decentralisation of education feels increasingly centralised. This is an important issue that needs to be addressed through policy changes,” said the senator from Central Java.
“The central government’s policy on relocation is permissible. The authority lies with the personnel management officials in the regions, but the system always poses a problem,” he said.
He admitted that this issue has been raised several times with the ministry and the State Personnel Agency (BKN), but to no avail, as regulations and the system continue to be obstacles.
Therefore, he reminded the importance of restoring the spirit of educational autonomy in line with regional autonomy, so that regional governments, both provinces and regencies/cities, have a proportional space to manage education.
These inputs will be brought and conveyed in the DPD RI session as material for evaluation and consideration in formulating future policies.
The Head of the Central Java Education Office, Sadimin, acknowledged that the issue of relocating PPPK teachers in the region has not been fully resolved.
Of the 602 teachers who applied for relocation, only 374 have been synchronised in the central system or the Teacher Talent Space (RTG), while the rest cannot be relocated due to limitations in the central system and available positions.
“The others have not been synchronised because there are no available positions. If there are no available positions, we cannot relocate them because of the system. The system is created and managed by the central government,” he said.
While awaiting confirmation, he said that all teachers who have applied for relocation will continue to be assigned teaching duties.