Overview

July 13 2020 has been marked as the start of the new school year by the Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture (“Minister”) and some 104 regencies and cities across the country  designated as COVID-19 green zones are set to reopen their junior and senior high schools.[1] However, other areas of the country will require their schools to implement Learning from Home (Belajar dari Rumah – “BDR”) methods due to the ongoing Corona Virus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) pandemic. As a result, the Secretary-General for the Ministry of Education and Culture has issued Circular No. 15 of 2020 on Guidelines for the Organization of Learning from Home during the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Emergency Period (“Circular 15/2020”), which also serves as an implementation of Circular of the Minister No. 4 of 2020 on the Implementation of Education Policies during the COVID-19 Emergency Period (“Circular 4/2020”).[2]