Please use it optimally to access learning materials on the 'Rumah Belajar' (means House of Learning) website or other educational channels.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry is ready to disburse additional Internet quota assistance to teachers and students in December 2021 to support the combined face-to-face and long-distance learning.

Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim made the remarks in a written statement issued here on Thursday.

The provision of the assistance is also due to the enforcement of community activity restrictions (PPKM) regulated by the Instruction of Home Affairs Minister, which has limited face-to-face learning with strict health protocols, he said.

The quota will be distributed in stages from December 11 to December 15, 2021, and will be valid for 30 days once received, he added.

Furthermore, early childhood education students will get three gigabytes, while elementary and secondary education students will receive a quota of four gigabytes per month, he informed.

"In addition, for teachers, college students, and lecturers, they will get five gigabytes," he said.

However, the unused quota will not be carried forward to the next month, he added.

"Please use it optimally to access learning materials on the 'Rumah Belajar' (means House of Learning) website or other educational channels," he said.

The assistance distribution is regulated in the ministry’s Secretary General Regulation Number 4/2021 on Technical Guidelines for Distribution of Government Assistance of Internet Quota in 2021.

Head of the Center for Data and Information Technology, M. Hasan Chabibie, informed that the mobile numbers updated and accounted for in November 2021 will also automatically receive the assistance in December 2021.

The quota can be used to access all websites and apps except those which are blocked by the Communication and Information Ministry and listed on the website of the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry (http://kuota-learning. kemdikbud.go.id), he added.

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Editor: Sri Haryati
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