The Spirit of Indonesia Students : Education Need Reproduction not Stand Alone | Which is one vehicle for forming a national character, the school is the main room where the "Nation Builders" Indonesia wants to be struggling in taking the country to compete in the global arena. Along with the rapid global challenges, the challenges of education also became more and more big, this aspect which encourages learners most excellent achievement.
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the world of education in Indonesia still has many hurdles that the quality of education with them is limited access to education, the number of teachers who have not been evenly distributed, as well as the quality of teachers themselves assessed is still lacking. Limited access to education in Indonesia, especially in the area again leads to increased urbanization have created a better knowledge access in urban areas.
According to the Indonesian education activists, Anies Baswedan limited access to education in the area so the base of the rapid urbanization.
"What matters, in Greater Jakarta has a proportional number, but let us just say urban, outer urban Precisely in that we have a problem and it is that causes the migration to Jakarta," said Anies.
With no way simultaneously, Indonesian citizens are encouraged to run for urbanization due to the limited facilities in the area. He assesses access to education must be open widest To all residents with the provision of tools that support the event.
"If the only school in the capital districts, so that far right becomes not afford school," he said.
Beyond that, the number of teachers who harmoniously with the qualifying today assessed is still not evenly distributed in the area. According to Director General of Basic Education (Basic Education) Kemendikbud Hamid Muhammad at a time when not a few basic schools (SD) in Indonesia shortages. The number is expected to reach 112 thousand teachers.
Create overcome this problem, the Ministry of Education & Culture (Kemendikbud) will work closely together with the local government, whether provincial or district / city, in the aspect of the distribution of teachers in these areas though more evenly. "If the teacher management can be handled optimally, not partial, so that could be transferred to the district or region that close together," said Hamid.
After That, to improve the quality of teachers, Kemendikbud will improve the qualifications of teachers through scholarships S-1 for teachers Schools. Hamid explained, the number of primary school teachers in the state and the private school of approximately 1,850 thousand teachers. Of these, only 60 per cent of teachers who have qualified with the title of S-1, while the other 40% who do not meet the qualifications. Each year, Kemendikbud also set up a scholarship For 100 thousand prospective teachers to study in the S-1 through S-1 scholarship assistance For Schools teachers. Internationally, the quality of education in Indonesia is ranked 64th out of 120 countries in all the world based on annual reports UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2012. While based Education Development Index (Education Development Index, EDI), Indonesia was ranked the ke- 69 out of 127 countries for 2011.
In the other corner, cases of attrition children - children of school age in Indonesia and remains high "Based on data from Kemendikbud 2010, in Indonesia there are more than 1.8 million children each yr unable to connect education, Re is caused by three factors, the economic aspects; children - children are forced working to give economic support of the family; and marriage at an early age, "according to the Secretary of the Directorate General of Higher Education, Dr. Ir. Patdono Suwignjo, Meter. Eng, Sc in Jakarta. In the most recent report of the UN Development Events yr 2013, Indonesia ranks 121 of 185 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) with zeros, 629. Along the figure was Indonesia lags behind the two neighboring countries of ASEAN including Malaysia (ranked 64th) and Singapore (18), while IPM in Asia Pacific namely zero, 683.
"We must solve the problems of education, because the ownership of the key insights of the people to prosper," according to Indonesian education figures, Anies Baswedan.
In the development of education in Indonesia, the government has run a variety of policies for improving the quality of education in order to face the competition of the free world that can simultaneously apply together with the realization of the ASEAN population against th 2015 will come.
For help load also strengthen basic education for learners of Indonesia, can fully enforce Kemdikbud determine curriculum th 2013 since the start of 2014, has even prepared give operational support costs For the curriculum.
"It's ready and th front almost entirely (schools) can do Curriculum 2013," said Deputy Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Musliar Kasim.
Curriculum 2013 the Education Unit Level Curriculum (SBC) which focuses on the mastery of contextual insight into which fits the area and the environment respectively. The curriculum focuses on three learners assessment concerning: the attitude (honest, polite, obedient rules), skills (on the job practice / school project), and depth of knowledge. The basic level such as primary schools, the curriculum is more concentration on the formation of attitudes and life skills, while their knowledge is 'lighter' than the Education Unit Level Curriculum.
Against such an advanced level junior and senior high school, serving more optimized due to the mastery of knowledge personally pupil is considered to have formed on the basic level. According Musliar, the new curriculum can be applied to learners grade 1, 2, 4 & 5; junior high school students grade 8 & 9; Similarly high school students grade 10 and 11. The government can not forge textbooks. Such as the construction of the thn the beginning of the beginning, Kemendikbud textbooks will be uploaded into the internet web.
Kemendikbud can set the highest retail prices for the books that are targeted to circulate freely. Curriculum 2013 has actually been implemented since mid-yr 2013 in the number of schools who have been selected, even though has been criticized because its implementation seem forced.
As international aid agencies working in the socio-economic development, USAID Indonesia gives emphasis to the development of quality education akbar through as many events that occurred at this time one of them is through a scholarship program S2 USAID-ACHIEVEMENT. Against this yr, USAID -PRESTASI gave scholarships to 31 professional Indonesian S2. For this event in the open common and desirable able to support the development of human resources who are competent in their field - each to a result that will make a positive contribution in their work environment - each after They turned to the
