Jakarta, Sept. 15 -- The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is working to create interactive classrooms through learning digitalization by providing interactive flat panels (IFPs), or interactive whiteboards, to schools across the country.

Director General of Early Childhood, Primary, and Secondary Education, Gogot Suharwoto, said the program is not merely a response to technological trends, but a measure to tackle educational challenges, including low literacy and learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Learning digitalization is an effort to help Indonesian children catch up quickly and develop 21st-century skills," he said in a podcast on learning digitalization on Monday.

He noted that the legal basis for the progr...