Volume 3, No. 2, December 2021
p- ISSN 2777-0915 | e-ISSN 2797-6068
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not have many cases. The “School Out, But Class's on” campaign launched by the
Chinese government during the COVID-19 epidemic created a normal large-scale
online education application28.
On June 15, 2020, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of
Religion, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Home Affairs decided to
compile guidelines for the implementation of learning in the academic year and
the new academic year during the COVID 19 period. Principles of Education
Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic Period with the principles a policy that the
health and safety of students, educators, education staff, families, and
communities is a top priority in setting learning policies. The pattern of learning
patterns for early childhood education, basic education and secondary
education, namely the new 2020/2021 teaching will continue to start in July
2020, for areas that are in the yellow, orange, and red zones, it is prohibited to
conduct face-to-face learning in education units. education in these zones
continues. Learning from Home29 New normal in the education sector is very
different from other sectors of life, so it must be fully alert and careful30.
Based on the situation, general emergency management is the best
solution. An emergency policy initiative called “Suspending Classes Without
Stopping Learning” aims to turn teaching activities into online teaching31.
Distance or online learning has become the norm32. Online learning is very much
needed to balance the development of the world of education which is
supported by information technology that leads to the digital era, both process
and content in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. With online learning, the
learning process can occur anywhere and anytime flexibly33.
Education in this emergency period needs to be distinguished from the
normal period. The meaning of "Closing classes without stopping learning"
reflects learning in a broad sense, which not only refers to structured learning
from the school curriculum, but also includes learning various content. Such
learning can be carried out in various ways, the purpose of which is to support
student growth. Meanwhile, it was emphasized that knowledge of epidemic
prevention and control needs to be included in addition to the formal national
curriculum, with particular emphasis on popularizing epidemic prevention
knowledge, expressed through life education classes, public safety education and
mental health education34.
Public safety education through policy implementation is very important
to pay attention to starting from a dynamic process, emergency management
system to linking the objectives of all steps, it is appropriate for schools,
(principals, teachers and parents) to collaborate to implement a public