Students’ Perceptions of Student Council Activity in New Normal Era at Junior High School

During the Covid-19 pandemic era, student activities are not so active than before. Most of the schools start prioritizing on formal teaching-learning process online activities. At the same time, they ignore student activities that have been prepared by the student council. As we know that schools already spare budget annually for the plan of student activities, so the activities should be created as well. Although student activities cannot be done face-to-face, student activities can also be done online. At SMP Dharma Loka, the school still allows the student council to hold student activities. This study aims to know student perceptions of student council activity internally and externally in new normal era at junior high school of SMP Dharma Loka. This research method was descriptive qualitative with the main instrument of the questionnaire while observation and interviews are supporting instruments. The questionnaire was distributed to 50 students. The results showed internal factors of students’ perception namely feeling of pleasure, interest, satisfaction in participating, and the continuity of the activity in the future have positive Responses. While external factors faced in the field such as the ownership and network problems still become the main obstacles in student activity.