The teacher redistribution policy is implemented under the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education's Regulation Number 1 of 2025.
"The ministerial regulation number 1 of 2025 allows government-employed teachers to be reassigned to private educational institutions," Mu'ti stated at the opening of the 2025 National Consolidation of Primary and Secondary Education in Depok, West Java, on Tuesday.
He elaborated that one of the factors worsening the uneven distribution of teachers in private educational institutions is the large number of private teachers who become government employees through the contract-based government employee teacher selection scheme, PPPK.
"We have data showing that 110 thousand private teachers have passed the government employee teacher selection, PPPK, and have been placed in public schools, which has led to a shortage of teachers in private schools," he remarked.
To this end, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is facilitating the redistribution of government-employed teachers, which can be carried out over a four-year period and extended once, based on data regarding teacher needs in both public and private schools.
Given the limited timeframe, he urged private schools receiving teachers through the redistribution scheme to continue efforts to address their own teacher shortages, so they do not become entirely dependent on the government.
The minister expressed hope that the teacher redistribution policy would help resolve the issue of uneven teacher distribution in the country, especially in private schools.
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Translator: Hana Dewi, Raka Adji
Editor: Primayanti
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