Government Prepares Interactive Boards to Reach 3T Regions Digitally

The government is preparing Interactive Digital Boards (PID) to reach 3T regions (disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost). This digital learning programme aims to assist students’ education across Indonesia. Director of Secondary Education Teachers and Special Education at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen), Arif Jamali, stated that for areas without electricity and internet access, the government will first provide those facilities before supplying the PID. “With this, we hope that growth in adapting to technology can be felt in all regions. Technology is an inevitability, so we can prepare our teachers to adapt to it,” Arif explained at the Tech and Telco Forum themed “Building a Safer Digital Nation: From Connectivity to Cyber Resilience” on Wednesday (6/5/2026). In implementing the PID programme, every teacher in 3T regions will be trained to apply the tool. In other words, the equipment will not just be handed over to schools. “But the teachers receiving it must have their competencies trained so they can use the interactive digital board. If not upgraded, the interactive board will just replace the whiteboard and not become a smart board,” he emphasised. Kemendikdasmen will also monitor those teachers to ensure the steps are implemented quickly. “We have already targeted more than 50,000 teachers to disseminate and accelerate the process because if we wait for training, with our 3 million teachers, there must be another strategy, strengthening in teacher communities,” Arif revealed. It is known that PID is one of Kemendikdasmen’s priority programmes. Through the use of PID, learning now moves from mere abstraction to visualisation, allowing students to see and understand scientific processes concretely.