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Simak: An integrated edtech platform for Indonesian schools, parents, teachers and students

The Simak platform © Simak

By connecting all players via its communication and information app, Simak hopes to modernize the Indonesian education system and make it more efficient 

Like most parents with school-age children, web developer Rizki Akmanda knows the challenges of keeping up with school assignments and a dynamic school agenda, in particular, the messages and notes from teachers that are missed – and the anxiety that comes with it.
Once, Akmanda and his wife found themselves in a misunderstanding with a teacher because of his daughter's missing homework. At that time, parents and teachers interacted via a WhatsApp chat group and a physical ”communication book” in which teachers and parents exchange handwritten notes on a child's progress in school. 

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