REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SURABAYA -- Former education and culture minister Mohammad Nuh said schools based on a ministerial decree signed by Education and Culture Minister Anies Baswedan are obliged to implement Curriculum 2013 until 2019/2020.

"All schools are obliged to implement Curriculum 2013 at the 2019/2020 academic year at the latest and at the 'latest' can mean beginning from now," the former minister said here on Sunday (15/12).

In the minister's decree No. 160/2014, the government specified that schools which had implemented Curriculum 2013 for three semesters were obliged to continue implementing it but if they object to implement it they can propose to use Curriculum 2006.

"The decree also regulates that schools which have implemented Curriculum 2013 for only one semester should re-use Curriculum 2006. Those who have not yet implemented Curriculum 2013 will be prepared to accept mentoring Curriculum 2013," the former minister said.

He said that training and mentoring on Curriculum 2013 will begin in the 2015/2016 academic year. This means it will last for three years until the 2018/2019 academic year. The is because Curriculum 2013 must be implemented in the 2019/2020 academic year at the latest.

"So, schools which are now ready for it can just propose to start joining the training and mentoring programs this year for implementing Curriculum 2013 in the 2015/2016 academic year," Nuh said.

He said that the ministerial decree also regulates preparations on training and mentoring for teachers, school principals, administrative staffers and supervisors.

The government has partially stopped the implementation of school Curriculum 2013 across the country and re-imposed Curriculum 2006 in some schools because not all are ready to implement it.

However, schools that implemented Curriculum 2013 over the last three semesters are allowed to continue following it.

Minister Anies Baswedan had explained that he took the decision based on facts that most schools are not ready to implement Curriculum 2013 due to several problems, including those related to the readiness of textbooks, assessment system, teachers' training and mentoring, and training of school principals.

"We stopped its implementation because of issues related to textbooks, assessment system, teachers' mentoring, and training for school principals, among others. In time, all schools will implement Curriculum 2013, depending on their readiness," he affirmed.

Education and Culture Minister Anies Rasyid Baswedan said that a total of 6,221 schools in 295 districts/municipalities in the country implemented Curriculum 2013 for three semesters since 2013.

Only these schools are obligated to continue implementing Curriculum 2013. Also, the program here will be improved and developed.

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