Governor Dedi Mulyadi Reveals Technical Negligence Behind Flood of School Admission Complaints

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi has revealed negligence by the technical agency in developing the 2026 New Student Admission System (SPMB) application, which he considers the root cause of a wave of complaints from hundreds of thousands of parents in West Java. He stressed this while directly monitoring the public complaints process for the SPMB Maung and New Student Mapping (PCMB) at the West Java Education Office on Jalan Radjiman, Bandung, on Tuesday. “The Governor’s stipulation was that the application should not have been made by the Technical Agency. The application should have been made by the Communication and Informatics Office or integrated by them,” he said before the Head of the West Java Provincial Education Office, Purwanto. Dedi assessed that the chaos complained about by parents does not stem from the admission regulations, but rather from the carelessness of the developer who built the application from scratch instead of perfecting the previously existing system. “In my opinion, it is not complicated. With 340,000 people, there are some problems caused by the technical aspects of the application, I see. The existing features should have just been refined. But as I observed earlier, he made the application from scratch,” he said. To resolve this digital polemic, the West Java Provincial Government is confirmed to be conducting a comprehensive technological evaluation. Dedi immediately instructed for the third party or application development team to be summoned to be held accountable on the spot. “That is why today I want to call in those who used and made the application. I want to call them now; this is purely technical, nothing heavy,” Dedi asserted. Beyond the application issues, Dedi also highlighted the management of the PCMB implementation, which ran contrary to his instructions, where the mapping process was actually held concurrently after the SPMB Sekolah Maung process. “I initially requested that this PCMB be held before the SPMB or in March 2026, but why wasn’t it done?” he questioned the performance of the West Java Education Office in a raised voice. To ease the swelling crowds, the West Java Provincial Government ordered that complaint posts be immediately decentralised to each educational unit so that the public does not need to visit the Education Office in Bandung. “This can be resolved at their respective schools. If everyone comes here, who is going to answer them?” Dedi added.