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Good afternoon viewrs, I'm Ramli from"41 Afternoon News" biringing you the latest
news for today . The first news is about about a big gap from the online classroom during the
pandemic and the second news is about Covid-19 crisis opportunity for education reform in
Indonesia.
The Cirona Virus pandemic has forced hundreds of milion of children accross the
world to either adopt learning from home or drop out of school altogether,as the deseases
worsens a big gap between the rich and the poor. Many Indonesians have found it difficult to
participate in online learning due to unequal access to technology and internet connectivity.
She told that many of them had to borrow their friend's smartphone or borrow
neighbor's smartphone or even some of them could not go to school at all, because they did
not have any gadged and had to visit the teacher in person for face to face classes. She also
reported that the problem was not only the difficulty in accessing smarphone and buying the
internet quota but the signal did not reach some parts of Indonesia.
The Indonesia education sector a core element of national development has overcome
nomerous chalenges over the years. Nothing had prepared it for the unprecedented job from
the covid-19 pandemic, as it is the case with many other countries around the globe,
Indonesia has been scrembling since earlier this year to ensure that the education system
remains fuctional. I'll bake the necessary compromises to adjust the current situations such as
replacing conventional face to face learning with online classes.
However the practical implementation of these emergency measures has been less
than ideal amid the pre-existing socio-economicis, disparates among teachers and students.
The minister of education and culture Nadima Karim has said the goverment already devised
a new education roadmap to relized President Jokowi Dodo's vision to make Indonesia
developed Countru in 2045 prior to the pandemic which would entail systematic reform that
was expected to transform the widely accepted notion of a curriculum as well as to improve
the quality of teachers.
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