SMK IDN Committee Submits Additional Evidence to West Java Ombudsman
The SMK IDN Boarding School Committee visited the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia Representative for West Java on Thursday, 9 April 2026. Committee Chairman Eko Aprianto stated that the committee submitted additional evidence in the case of alleged maladministration concerning the West Java Provincial Government’s policy to cancel the SMK IDN Boarding School’s permit.
This step is an official follow-up to the report submitted to the Central Ombudsman RI in Jakarta on 12 March 2026, which is now entering the verification and further investigation stage at the regional level.
During the meeting, the Committee submitted various pieces of evidence, including recordings of meetings indicating the decision-making process, meeting minutes documenting the dynamics and chronology of the policy, on-site visual documentation, and other supporting administrative documents.
Eko stated that this evidence is not merely supplementary but serious indications that need to be objectively examined by the Ombudsman.
“We are not coming with assumptions. We are coming with evidence,” he said in an official statement on Thursday, 9 April 2026.
The Committee requested that the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia not stop at formalities. The Committee also asked for an examination of the process behind the issuance of the policy and for the Ombudsman to investigate possible negligence, procedural deviations, or conflicts of interest.
“And to uncover whether the decision was taken objectively or under certain pressures,” he said.
According to Eko, this controversy impacts the students of SMK IDN. Hundreds of students are now in a situation of uncertainty, while time continues to pass, especially for Year XII students who will soon face graduation.
The Committee hopes that the process at the Ombudsman will become a bright spot to ensure that public policy is not implemented haphazardly and without accountability.
“If there are mistakes, they must be corrected. If there are deviations, they must be exposed. And if there are those who are harmed, their rights must be restored, especially the educational rights of the students,” he said.
Previously, a dozen parents of students from SMK IDN Boarding School Bogor visited the Ombudsman RI to follow up on the complaint report submitted on 12 March 2026.
Chairman of the SMK IDN Boarding School Bogor Committee, Eko Aprianto, asked the Ombudsman to examine the alleged maladministration in the issuance of the West Java Governor’s Decree (SK) that revoked the operational permit of SMK IDN Boarding School Bogor.
The case began when several students were allegedly involved in serious violations while abroad. Some of those students were suspected of smoking and accessing pornography sites. The school then decided to drop out (DO) them in November 2025. However, the parents of the expelled students did not accept this. They then challenged the school’s operational permit to the West Java Provincial Government in December 2025.
On 12 January 2026, the school committee held an audience with the Head of the Vocational Secondary School Development Division of the West Java Education Office, Edy Purwanto. In that meeting, there was a discussion regarding the plan to cancel the school’s permit. However, the Education Office promised to request a suspension of that decision until the end of the semester.
On 5 March 2026, the school received notification that the West Java Governor’s Decree Number: 188/Kep.17-DPMPTSP/2026 had been issued, signed on 19 January 2026. The issuance on 19 January was without notification to the school.
According to Kompas, the Head of the West Java Education Office, Purwanto, stated that the cancellation of the school’s operational permit was not intended to halt students’ learning activities. That step was instead taken so that the students’ educational status has a clear legal basis. “The government wants to ensure that the educational rights of children in West Java are fulfilled properly and in accordance with applicable rules,” he said at a press conference at the West Java DPMPTSP Office, Jalan Cianjur, Bandung City, on Thursday, 12 March 2026.
According to him, the decision to cancel the permit had gone through a discussion and dialogue process with the school management. On 21 January 2026, the provincial government and the school also agreed on several steps to ensure that the students’ education process continues.