The TNI provides tutoring for children in the Indonesia-PNG border

The TNI provides tutoring for children in the Indonesia-PNG border

Indonesian-Papua New Guinea (PNG) Border Security Task Force (Pamtas) Border Battalion MR 411 / PDW in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic providing tutoring to Papuan children in Kirely Village, Ulilin District, Merauke Regency.

Dansatgas Yonif MR 411 / PDW Major Inf Rizky Aditya said that children's tutoring activities were carried out by Bupul 12 Post personnel led directly by post and post and several post members.

"Tutoring activities to help school children around the post who are implementing learning at home, and doing the assignments given by the teacher at their school," he said in a written statement through Information of Kodam XVII / Cenderawasih.

Dansatgas hopes that the existence of tutoring in the midst of the impact of COVID-19 is very important to assist local governments in realizing Indonesian children to be smart and superior.

"This is also the commitment of the task force since the beginning of their duty, to be able to improve the achievements of students at the border," said Major Rizky.

He said, learning activities at home is a form of Ministry of Education and Culture efforts to help provide education for all people in the emergency period COVID-19.

For more than two months, he continued, school children around Bupul 13 Post study at home. "Our hope with this tutoring can help and become teachers for them," he said again.

Dansatgas also added, in providing this tutoring, the task force members continued to implement health protocols, namely washing hands before and after learning and still using masks.

"Hopefully with this tutoring, children can continue to excel in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, in order to achieve their dreams," said Dansatgas.