The government has not ruled out holding repeat tests for high school students who failed this year's national examination, Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo says.
However, Bambang said likelihood of organizing repeat exams was small because more high school students had passed this year than last.
""If we repeat the exams again this year, it will become normal and students will assume that there will always be a chance to repeat them, and they'll only count on that,"" he said.
Bambang said repeating the national exam could also encourage laziness among students.
He said a repeat would contradict the main purpose of national exams, to equip students to allow them to compete in the job market.
The Education Ministry and the National Board for Education Standards (BNSP) announced Monday the number of senior high, vocational and religious schools passing the national exam rose to 91.44 percent from 79.81 percent last year.
Last year's result, however, was achieved after the Education Ministry decided to hold repeat exams for senior high school students who failed.
Bambang said the average grade score for high school students had risen to the ministry's target of 7.
""That's why the BNSP has suggested there be no repeat for this year,"" he said.
The average scores for the three subjects tested in the national exam from May 16-18 also increased, from 6.54 to 6.88 for math, from 5.9 to 7.12 for English and from 6.39 to 7.17 for Indonesian.
After a subdued meeting Tuesday with a group representing students who failed the national exams, the House of Representatives' Commission X for education called on the National Education Ministry to hold a repeat of the graduation test.
The commission cited numerous cases of cheating involving teachers and students as among its many reasons for the proposed repeat.
It said treating the results of the national exam as benchmark for students' proficiency constituted an infringement of their basic rights.
House Speaker Agung Laksono said the government should heed the recommendations of the commission.
Agung also recommended setting up an independent team to examine why the national exams ""had failed"".
""My colleagues in Commission X demanded a repeat of the national exams for a good reason. They have seen the situation in the field,"" he said.
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