Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud) Muhadjir Effendy is optimistic that all regions have received the paper pencil national exam (UNKP) questions. It is based on visits and monitoring to the printers in a number of provinces. In addition, he continued, the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) also sought security of logistics distribution of UNKP questions involving the security forces. Kemendikbud also links with Ombudsman RI (ORI) and the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) in order for paper based questions not to leak.
As for the computer-based national exam (UNBK), he continued, Kemendikbud links with State Code Institution (Lemsaneg) to help secure the network traffic on the internet.
Nevertheless, Mendikbud still requested the cooperation of all parties to act in good faith to ensure the success of the UN. He acknowledged the technological capacity owned by Kemendikbud is not too great. So, he cautioned on hackers to be willing to cooperate to not carry out their action.
Muhadjir added his party also cooperates with state electricity company PLN and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Kemenkominfo). Based on Puspendik data, 7.7 million students will implement UN. The figure is derived from 98 thousand education units. At the SMP/MTs level there are 1,354,619 participants from 11,128 schools (32.21 percent) carry out UNBK; at the SMA/MA level there are 1,145,341 students from 9,661 schools (63.20 percent) to carry out UNBK, in the SMK level there are 1,176,712 students from 9,832 schools (88,66 percent) to carry out UNBK. Meanwhile, a total of 3,948,446 students from 64,780 schools (51.07 percent) will carry out UNBK.
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