Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education Outlines Roadmap for Primary School English Teacher Training

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) has outlined the roadmap for implementing the Primary School Teacher Competency Development Programme in Teaching English (PKGSD-MBI) over the period 2025-2029 to support preparations for English becoming a compulsory subject in primary education. Director General of Teachers and Education Personnel (Dirjen GTK) at Kemendikdasmen, Nunuk Suryani, stated in Jakarta on Friday that the roadmap ensures that 150,000 primary school units will eventually have teachers capable of teaching English to third-grade pupils within the next three years. She added that the implementation of English as a compulsory subject in third grade will be carried out gradually starting from the 2027/2028 academic year, as stipulated in Ministerial Regulation No. 13 of 2025, targeting around 58,000 schools deemed ready. Therefore, she continued, in 2025 Kemendikdasmen has already surveyed and verified 90,447 target primary schools that will receive training interventions through the PKGSD-MBI programme. In the same year, they are also preparing and training 1,057 regional facilitators (Fasda) who will train and assist the teachers, integrate a learning management system (LMS), and develop CFR A1 and A2 training modules. This year, she went on, Kemendikdasmen is ready to conduct English teaching training targeting 10,000 primary school teachers as participants. Then, in 2027 and 2028, they target organising the same training to reach 30,000 primary school teachers. Thus, they are prepared to complete the training programme by targeting 20,000 primary school teachers as participants in 2029. “It is hoped that within three years, we will be ready, all schools will be ready to implement the compulsory English subject in third grade,” said Nunuk.