East Java Education Office's Forward Step: SPMB 2026 Starts Earlier for Selection Integrity
The East Java Education Office has opened the 2026 East Java Student Admission Selection (SPMB) earlier to provide prospective students with an opportunity to understand the process and ensure that the new student admission runs transparently, accountably, and fairly.
East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa in Surabaya on Wednesday (8/4) stated that this launch marks the beginning of the 2026 SPMB series, designed to be more systematic, inclusive, and easily understood by the public.
Moreover, the launch of SPMB 2026 serves as a momentum for socialisation to all stakeholders, from educational units, parents/guardians of students to the wider community, so that they comprehensively understand the registration flow, requirements, selection pathways, and result announcement mechanisms.
“The 2026 SPMB stages are arranged to be more systematic and easily understood by the public, so that the entire process can run transparently and fairly,” said Khofifah.
Khofifah explained that the implementation of SPMB 2026 is carried out through four stages. The first stage begins with the SMA/SMK domicile pathway from 11–15 June 2026.
“For the SMA level, the domicile pathway quota is available at 20%. Whereas for the SMK level, the domicile pathway quota is given 10%,” explained Khofifah.
The second stage covers the affirmative, mutation, and achievement pathways from competitions held from 17–23 June 2026. For the SMA level, the affirmative quota is 30 percent, consisting of ADEM 13 percent, affirmative for underprivileged families 7 percent, children of underprivileged workers’ families 5 percent, and persons with disabilities 5 percent.
“Meanwhile, for the affirmative pathway at the SMK level, 15% is provided, covering ADEM quota 7%, affirmative for children of underprivileged workers’ families 5%, and persons with disabilities 3%,” explained Khofifah.
For the mutation pathway, the East Java Education Office provides a quota of 5% from the educational unit’s capacity, divided into parental duty mutation pathway at 3%, and children of teachers/educational staff other than educators at 2%.
Finally, in stage 2, the achievement pathway from competitions is given a quota of 5% from the educational unit’s capacity, divided into academic competition achievement pathway at 2%, and non-academic competition achievement, OSIS/MPK/Scouting leader, and scripture memoriser at 3%.
“This year, the East Java Provincial Government through the Education Office (Dindik) will start SPMB registration with the SMA/SMK Domicile pathway on 11-15 June 2026. In the previous year, the domicile SPMB pathway started at stage 3,” said Khofifah.
The East Java Provincial Government will also provide golden ticket quotas for OSIS leaders and scripture memorisers at 1 new student for each SMA/SMK.
Next, continued Khofifah, the third stage is the SMA academic achievement value pathway with a 25% quota starting from 24–29 June 2026. Meanwhile, the fourth stage is the SMK academic achievement value pathway with a 65% quota opened from 30 June to 4 July 2026.
To support the smooth implementation, the East Java Provincial Government will hold socialisation at five Bakorwil points from 9–24 April 2026. This activity covers the Surabaya, Tuban, Ponorogo, Jember, to Pamekasan areas with hundreds of participants from various education office branches.
In addition to centralised socialisation, the Education Office also encourages massive socialisation by all SMA, SMK, and SLB educational units in East Java.
“This effort is strengthened with a technology-based dashboard prepared by the Technical Implementation Unit for Educational Information and Communication Technology (UPT TIKP) to monitor the socialisation implementation in real-time,” she said.