these are the senior secondary vocational schools known as sekolah menengah kejuruan smks and the islamic vocational senior secondary schools madrasah aliyah kejuruan or maks community colleges or akademi komunitas aks polytechnics universities and vocational centres known as balai latihan kerja blks at the time of the oecd review team s visit the ministry of education and culture moec was responsible for smks which provide secondary education and the newly established aks polytechnics and research universities which provide postsecondary education the latter are now under the purview of the new ministry of research technology and higher education morthe combining the former directorate general for higher education and the ministry of research and technology the blks which provide nonformal technical and vocational education and training tvet fall under the administration of the ministry of manpower and transmigration momt