Jakarta, April 29 -- Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Abdul Mu'ti, aims to tackle the shortage of teachers by redistributing teachers with government employee status to private schools.

The teacher redistribution policy is implemented under the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education's Regulation Number 1 of 2025.

"The ministerial regulation number 1 of 2025 allows government-employed teachers to be reassigned to private educational institutions," Mu'ti stated at the opening of the 2025 National Consolidation of Primary and Secondary Education in Depok, West Java, on Tuesday.

He elaborated that one of the factors worsening the uneven distribution of teachers in private educational institutions is the large number of pri...