Report Violations and Cheating in SPMB Here
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) is calling on the public to report any form of violations or cheating during the implementation of the New Student Admission System (SPMB).
Director General of Early Childhood Education, Basic Education, and Non-Formal and Informal Education at Kemendikdasmen, Gogot Suharwoto, stated that the ministry has an Integrated Service Unit (ULT) that receives various inputs and complaints regarding violations related to the implementation of policies made by Kemendikdasmen, including in SPMB.
“So if the public sees or hears of any cheating, just report it. We have an Integrated Service Unit that will forward it to the Inspectorate General, and then the Inspectorate General will follow up in collaboration with the regional inspectorate,” said Gogot during the “Ngopi Bareng Dirjen PAUD Dikdas PNFI” event in Central Jakarta on Thursday.
He further emphasised that Kemendikdasmen is ready to deploy a team to investigate if there are reports and complaints from the public regarding violations during the SPMB implementation process.
“So there is no buying and selling of seats. If there is evidence of people buying and selling seats, just report it to us, report it. I will happily accompany friends and the public who report if SPMB violations are found,” he said.
He added that violations such as buying and selling seats in SPMB are also actions that can be followed up legally.
“So there is no such thing as selling seats, there isn’t. If there is evidence, I will deploy a team. We report it to the authorities, and it can be prosecuted,” Gogot stressed.
On the same occasion, he also explained several steps to anticipate cheating during the SPMB implementation process.
One of them is that the ministry has locked the new student capacity quotas for each class listed in the Dapodik portal for every school since the regional government set and reported them in the first technical guidelines.
Therefore, he continued, schools cannot add or reduce the new student capacity quotas after the regional government signs the first technical guidelines.
“The determination of the number of student slots opened in each school is set through the regional government’s technical guidelines. Once the regional head signs, we receive the report, and we immediately lock the school’s Dapodik page. So there is no such thing as selling seats, there isn’t,” he said.