Minister of Basic Education Begins to Prepare Integrated School Concept for Primary to High School Levels

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto wants to build integrated schools in every sub-district. Minister of Primary and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu’ti said that his party is starting to prepare the concept and curriculum. “So, the President said during the cabinet meeting that we should prepare the concept of a non-boarding Integrated Superior School. Now we have not received direct direction because it will not start immediately, right? Yes, but in concept we will continue to do it,” Abdul Mu’ti said at the Ministry of Basic Education’s Annual Media Briefing in Building A of the Ministry of Basic Education, Central Jakarta/20/20, Wednesday night, said. Page TO CONTINUE CONTENT As for the general concept of the school, he continued, the direction is quite clear regarding the Integrated High School. Namely, it will integrate three levels of education, namely primary, middle and high school, and it is planned that there will be one in each sub-district. Although there was no technical discussion about the school concept requested by Prabowo, he said that his party is starting to look at and conduct comparative studies with various existing school models. One of them is the Integrated Superior School built by the Samarinda City Government using the Cambridge curriculum and ideal educational infrastructure. “But now I have seen the existing models informally. For example, I went to Samarinda, East Kalimantan last month. There is already an Integrated High School built by the Samarinda City Government,” he said. On that occasion, he also emphasized that his party had not technically discussed it further so far, especially regarding Prabowo’s proposal about the possibility of implementing Integrated High Schools using schools with a small number of students. “Well, that’s what we haven’t discussed yet. And whether the scheme is going to be, for example, the sub-district that provides land like the People’s School or the Garuda Superior School, we haven’t discussed yet. What we’re focusing on now is how to prepare the curriculum, and later maybe also the recruitment of teachers and issues of a more academic nature, which later were technical,” he said. Earlier on Monday (20/10), President Prabowo Subianto said during the full cabinet meeting that he will build 7,000 integrated schools from 2026. The president is set to form a special task force to prepare integrated school development plans in each sub-district as an effort to equalize access to education and improve the quality of Indonesia’s human resources. “I am currently preparing it, I am asking the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Basic Education, maybe assisted by other ministries as well, to set up a special task force to study. We are building integrated schools in every sub-district,” Prabowo said. Watch the video ‘House of Representatives Commission