Since WHO stated that the corona virus is a global pandemic, the government has given

instructions that the PSBB or Lockdown will be enforced. And as long as the PSBB or
Lockdown is enforced, all face-to-face activities with other people are carried out online.
This also applies in the world of education, namely conducting the teaching and learning
process online. But in my opinion, doing the teaching and learning process online is not
effective for several reasons.

The first reason is that underprivileged students will find it difficult to buy internet quotas
because many of the students' parents are low-income or from middle to lower class
(underprivileged). This happened to a number of underprivileged students in Passo Village,
Air Besar, Ambon, Maluku who took advantage of free internet access at the police station to
study online during distance learning (PJJ). They have difficulty buying internet quotas so
they can still study amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from having difficulty buying
internet quotas, these students also had difficulty getting mobile phones and laptops.

The second reason is that online learning will be troublesome for students who live in rural
areas, remote areas, and are left behind because it is difficult to access the internet, and even
if someone uses a cellular network, sometimes the network is unstable, due to geographic
location that is still far from cellular signal coverage. As experienced by tens of students in
Junior High School (SMP) 3 Satu Atap in Wonosoco Village, Undaan District. Tens of
students pedaled their bicycles 2 kilometers to get signals to take part in online learning

The third reason is that students will become stressed or even commit suicide if they are
given many tasks.
Currently, teachers are very easy to give assignments, especially with the support of LMS
(learning management system), they don't need to appear in front of the class anymore
without comprehensively taking into account the workload given to these students, so that the
possibility of stressing students out and even committing suicide. Like a student at a junior
high school in Tarakan, North Kalimantan who was found dead hanging in the bathroom
where he lived in Sebengkok Village, Tuesday a t around 5 pm WITA, because of the stress
of most schoolwork

Based on a survey from UNICEF about the experience of students learning from home during
the Covid-19 pandemic which received more than 4,000 responses from students in 34
Indonesian provinces, -there were 66 percent of 60 million students from various levels of
education in 34 provinces said they were uncomfortable studying at home during the Covid-
19 pandemic. Of these, 87 percent of students want to return to school immediately. It is not
without reason that students feel uncomfortable learning from home rather than at school.
Because there are 38 percent of students who became respondents said that lack of guidance
from teachers was the main obstacle. Meanwhile 35 percent cited poor internet access. If
distance learning continues, more than half or 62 percent of respondents admit they need
internet quotas.
From this survey it can be concluded that most students in Indonesia want to immediately
return to face-to-face teaching and learning activities even though they have to comply with
existing health protocols or regulations.