Education Changes during the Pandemic within Malaysia and Indonesia: A mini-observation

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an overview of the changes in education within Malaysia and Indonesia. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated changes in society, but more specifically in education, forcing students and teachers alike to adapt to online learning. This paper will focus on 1) the changes within Malaysia in education and 2) the changes in education within Indonesia. Education is one of the more pressing issues in which the global pandemic has massively affected. This paper hopes to draw light to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic towards issues pertaining to the education sector that has been affected by it, within the Malaysian and Indonesian scope, highlighting some of the changes within these sectors while urging for a greater emphasis on the implementation of safer and secure methods in the management of a crisis of a similar magnitude.