Name: Suniyyah Puspita Sari

Institution: Universitas Darussalam Gontor

Country: Republic of China
Committee: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
Topic Agenda: Road to Enforcement Enhancement: ASEAN Legal Cooperation in
Extradition

“The increasing transnational organized crime in the region needs a strong legal
cooperation between ASEAN countries. Therefore, Indonesia will encourage the creation
of extradition instrument in ASEAN.” - Retno Marsudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Indonesia

Background
Since it outbreak in late December 2019, COVID-19 has wreaked have across the
world and like any sector, education has been hit hard. Each day millions of children do
not go to school due to emergencies and an ongoing humanitarian crises. While the global
Campaign for Education (GCE) acknowledges the public health decision to close schools,
we believe that contingency plans should be in place to ensure the right to education even
in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic will adversely impact the progress some
governments were making around increasing the education budget. Therefore, this is a
crisis that requires urgent attention and collective action by all Governments, stakeholders
and communities. This includes 270 million student in mainland China who were unable
to start their spring semester. To minimize the impact on education continuity, the Chinese
Government introduced various measures applicable in the COVID-19 context.

Past Action
The education sector was squarely in the middle of China’s fight against COVID
and the after effects continue to be felt: in early April, the government announced it would
delay important exams, including the gaokao, the University entrance exam in China. The
china government implements reduce online times. Resarch says that spending hours in
front of screens is not helpful for students of any age, the MOE suggested cutting back on
screen time. The department of Education of Guangdong province went even further,
releasing detailed guidance limiting each online class to 20 minutes. Smaller chunks of
screen time, paired with “off-screen” activities, can improve students, attention span and
reduce screen-time fatigue.
Synchronous online classes require a lot of concentration and so can easily tire
students, noted Dr. Wenge Guo, an associate professor of educational technology at
Peking University. “We need to cut the content and arrange many interactive activities
between the teacher and the student, and among student,” she said. Research shows that
online session between 15 to 30 minutes are most effective, she added. Even graduate
students need breaks, say every 20 minutes during an online lecture. And also for all
policies that making by the government’s role: decisive, sweeping policy changes.