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Keeping The Quality necting and her laptop would oc-

casionally crashes. “I need to get
of Education Amid The used to this as this is the new
method: an online, distance learn-
ing,” she said.
Pandemic at vocational high school (SMK)
Besides Tata, a teacher staff

26 named Aisyah also have to get
used to this new distance-learning
method. “We have to prepare vari-
Amid the pandemic of COVID-19, learning activities are being ous ways of learning to prevent the
conducted in distance with the implementation of 15 programs. students from getting bored and to
make the learning more fun,” she
said.
6 Aisyah once asked her stu-
dents to take online lessons giv-
en by Bina Nusantara about en-
trepreneurship and mathematics.
“I asked them to write a resume
he clock shows 8 AM sharp regarding the lessons,” she ex-
when Thahira Putreyna Donni plained.
Tprepares himself to get a les- But the limited access to the
son. This time, this student of voca- internet still become her main
tional school SMKN 26, Rawaman- problem in this new learning
gun, East Jakarta didn’t have to go to method. She also realized that not
school, but to learn at her own home all students have adequate tech-
using Zoom meeting app. Through the nology (handphones or laptops) to
application, Thahira will learn her les- participate.
sons the way she will from the school. According to the survey of Dis-
Although virtually, she can commu- tance Learning Method (PJJ) con-
nicate and discuss with her teachers ducted by the Indonesian Child
and classmates. Protection Commission (KPAI), the
That was her routine in the past limited access to internet is indeed
two months. Since the outbreak of CO- the main obstacle during the im-
VID-19, her school were closed and plementation of PJJ. The partici-
the learning activities were set in dis- pants of the survey are 1,700 stu-
tance (home learning). “Actually, I dents from kindergarten (TK) to
miss going to school,” she said to Me- high school (SMA) level in 20 prov-
dia Jaya. inces and 54 cities. The survey
Tata—her nickname, said that shows a 42.2 percent of the prob-
while doing the distance-learning she lems faced by the students was
faced some problems, such as the in- the lack of internet quota, and the
ternet connection that keeps discon- rest was regarding the lack of time