VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) reminded students to be wise in using gadgets. According to him, digital skills are not only about the ability to use gadgets, but also being smart and wise in using them.

This was conveyed by the Head of the Publication, Communication and Policy Advocacy Working Group, Directorate of SMA Kemendikbudristek, Juandanilsyah. According to him, there are four methods that students can use to use gadgets.

"First, digital security, then digital skills, digital culture, to digital ethics," said Juandanilsyah in the 2022 Nusantara Student Festival (FPN) webinar held by RRI, Tuesday (25/10/2022).

"These four pillars are what we must do because we create a technology-based learning ecosystem. So that we can produce talents that are in accordance with Indonesia's advantages later," he said.

Furthermore, Juandanilsyah assesses that currently digital technology has become global, knowledge-based internet is not limited. Therefore, teachers must also improve presentation techniques in learning methods.

"We know that students are sometimes overloaded with knowledge. Teachers must improve learning techniques, from difficult to fun, using relevant teaching materials," he said.

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2020 in the last four years, the percentage of students aged 5–24 years in Indonesia who have internet access has increased sharply from 33.98 percent to 59.3 percent. More than a quarter of internet users (25.5 percent) are children and adolescents. (RRI)