The Jayawijaya Regency Government will apply a local content curriculum on local language lessons (mother tongue), to every student. Starting from the 2022/2023 school year.
Jayawijaya Regent, John Richard Banua said he had asked the education office so that the local language could be applied in all education units.
“Elementary and junior high schools which are our responsibility, starting in the new school year, they have started to take effect. Hopefully the data has been prepared, because the data I asked for was two years ago, but it was only prepared until it was launched in the new academic year," said Jhon Banua to reporters, Thursday (24/3/2022) in Wamena.
Meanwhile, the secretary of the Jayawijaya Education Office, Bambang Budiandoyo, added that the temporary curriculum was being processed since there was a follow-up meeting with competent figures with the local Jayawijaya language in April, to ensure that in the new academic year 2022/2023, they could issue regional regulations or regent regulations related to implementation. regional languages in education units.
To anticipate who the teacher will be, will rely on local teachers. They will help existing teachers to be more effective.
"The regent instructed and we carried out the recruitment of 150 local teachers, while this is the finalization process, only after the final verification we will announce it according to the existing requirements," said Bambang.
By recruiting 150 local teachers, it is hoped that they will facilitate the learning of local languages.
"This is an early stage, we hope that there will still be a certain learning process, we hope that with the support of a curriculum prepared by experts in the local language field and local teachers who are indeed prepared by
It is one of the tasks of the local government to support this, hoping that the new academic year of learning local content which contains the local Jayawijaya language can go well as planned," he said.
This local language lesson, he said, is planned to be applied to early grades of PAUD, SD and SMP. In the future, it will be evaluated because this language is dynamic, so it will be implemented according to regional authority, namely all levels in Jayawijaya.
According to him, this is very specific because successful development is supported by local wisdom based on culture. Where, culture has its roots and one of them is the local language or mother tongue, from which information can be extracted from local wisdom and stories that can build a kind of character for students. In order to know, appreciate so as to make students wiser.
“Meanwhile, from the information that the service has managed to gather, most of them do not understand their mother tongue, it is conceivable that in the next few years they will lose their roots and be easily shaken. Our character cannot be formed according to the expectations of our previous parents," he said.
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