"The Freedom in Learning Curriculum is expected to create an (education sector) as envisioned by our Father of Education, Ki Hajar Dewantara, who said that education sets humans free, inside and out," acting head of curriculum and study at the ministry, Zulfikri, said in a workshop on Freedom in Learning Curriculum, which was hosted in Medan, North Sumatra, on Friday.
The curriculum contains various intracurricular learnings, which aim to optimize learning subjects, allowing students ample time to understand concepts and hone their skills, he pointed out.
Zulfikri further noted that the curriculum allows teachers to choose many tools to support teaching so as to adjust to the needs of students.
The Freedom in Learning Curriculum will reform education, he affirmed. So far, teachers have been more preoccupied with complicated administrative processes and an overload of subjects to teach, leaving them little time to actually educate students, he observed.
The curriculum changes all of that to allow teachers to be more focused on improving the quality of the learning process so that it becomes more flexible, relevant, and fair for all students, Zulfikri elaborated.
"The point is: we have to make schools fun, joyful places that make children love to learn for the rest of their lives. We want to make the children feel that going to school is not an obligatory thing, but rather a need, and they can (discover) themselves there," he added.
On the same occasion, a member of Commission X of the House of Representatives, Sofyan Tan, highlighted teachers’ task of making learning fun for students.
"Learning must be (made as entertaining) as playing in a park. A school is a playground which can give birth to new innovations for students. (Whether) those students are coming to or going home from school, they must be made happy," Tan said.
He opined that the Freedom in Learning Curriculum allows teachers to freely use innovative methods, in accordance with their environment, to educate students.
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Translator: Juraidi, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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