The impact of smoke from forest and land fires is crazy, school activities in Pekanbaru require wearing a mask

TIME.CO, Jakarta – The Education Bureau of Pekanbaru City, Riau Province has issued a circular regarding the teaching and learning process requiring students and teaching staff to wear masks due to hazy conditions caused by forest and land fires or Forest and land fires At the moment.

The head of Pekanbaru Education Service, Abdul Jamal in Pekanbaru, Tuesday, October 3, 2023, said that there were two recommendations in the circular, namely that in addition to requiring the use of masks, the teaching and learning process in the units education is carried out indoors, reducing activities outside the classroom.

“So we have conveyed this circular to all schools. Starting from early childhood education/nursery level, to primary schools and government and private middle schools,” Abdul Jamal said.

Circular with letter number 420/Disdik, Regarding the teaching and learning process affected by smoking, issued on Monday (2/10) signed by the head of the Pekanbaru Education Department. This circular was issued after coordination with the health service and the environment service.

The Department has observed developments in air quality that have been quite poor over the past couple of days. So, as a first step, the department took action to recommend reducing outdoor learning activities. “Like sporting activities, outdoor activities will first be curtailed. Then mask-wearing will be mandatory,” he said.

Previously, a number of schools in Pekanbaru town, Riau, had started encouraging their students to wear masks to school due to the unhealthy climate and air quality, one of which was in SDN 6 Pekanbaru.

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Class III A teacher from SDN 6 Pekanbaru, Arta Manalu, said this is to anticipate students from an early age so that they are not attacked by upper respiratory tract infections (ARI). “The principal has appealed to students to wear masks since Saturday morning. We also urge students to reduce activities outside their home or school,” she said.

Request air quality The situation started to worsen, Arta revealed that the teaching and learning process was still business as usual and had not yet moved to an online system. “Until now, the study time is still the same. There hasn’t been any change, it’s still Monday to Saturday,” he said.

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