Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education to announce National Assessment results in October

Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) is set to announce the National Assessment results, including character surveys, literacy, numeracy, and learning environment for the 2025/2026 academic year, in October.

Head of the Basic and Secondary Education Policy Agency (BKPDM) Toni Toharudin stated that the National Assessment, conducted alongside the Academic Ability Test (TKA), will not be released at the same time as the TKA results due to the need for thorough processing and in-depth analysis of student survey responses.

“The National Assessment, which includes character and literacy-numeracy surveys, will be formally announced in October. We require detailed processing and analysis, so it won’t be released simultaneously with the TKA results. Please be patient, we will announce it later,” Toharudin said in Jakarta on Friday.

He added that the National Assessment results may coincide with the announcement of the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, which are conducted every three years.

In a separate statement, Kemendikdasmen’s Education Assessment Centre (Pusmendik) chief Rahmawati explained that the 2025/2026 National Assessment results will only be released in October because respondents include not only students but also teachers and school principals.

She noted that the learning environment survey by teachers and principals has not yet commenced, hence the results cannot be announced yet.

“The National Assessment is integrated with the TKA, primarily for student respondents to avoid repeated assessments. However, the National Assessment also includes teachers and school principals completing the learning environment survey, which has not yet started,” Rahmawati said.

She further added that this year marks the sixth year of the survey, requiring more meticulous and careful processing to ensure the results reflect not only the 2025/2026 academic year but also trends and achievements over the past five years.

“For this survey, being in its sixth year, the processing is more meticulous and cautious. We aim to present not just this year’s results but also the five-year trend,” she said.