A half-cooked school zoning policy: go or not go?
June seems to become the regular month of protest for Indonesian parents whose child is going to enter a new school because the registration period for new students begins in this month. This year is not exceptional. The Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia (Kemdikbud RI) reimplements its school enrollment zoning system policy this year based on the Ministerial Decree No. 51/2018 on New Student Admission (PPDB) 2019. The question is whether or not it is the right time to implement this policy. Through the decree, the Minister of Education and Culture Muhajir Effendy obligates all public school, from elementary to senior high school, to accept at least 90 percent of students whose family register domiciled in the same zoning area as the school location [1] . He stated that the zoning system would reverse the disadvantageous culture that has been going on for decades, namely the public paradigm of favorite or non-favorite school. To date, the existence of ‘favo