Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Indonesian Pediatric Association (IDAI) has asked schools to consider the weather or climate change conditions while planning learning activities for students.
“Climate change can clearly disrupt learning systems and activities; this needs attention,” IDAI’s Disaster Task Force chairperson Kurniawan Taufiq Khadafi said here on Tuesday.
At a virtual media briefing on the impact of climate change on children’s health, Khadafi explained that climate change can trigger extreme weather such as intense rainfall that can lead to floods.
This could make children’s time at school shorter as schools need to be closed during such events.
Although the current temperatures in Indonesia are not as extreme as those in Thailand, Bangladesh, or India, IDAI has appealed to schools to protect students from dehydration.
He asked schools to avoid conducting physical activities…
