The Strategic Plan 2010-2014 of the Ministry of National Education, now the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC), gives priority to the development of the professional competencies of school and madrasah principals and supervisors to ensure improved quality in the implementation of school education programs. Principal and supervisor competencies were defined and articulated in the National ...

The paper outlines the rationale for introducing mother tongue based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) in multilingual societies. It also highlights some of the common obstacles to MTB-MLE implementation, and how they can be overcome. The paper cites the situation in Papua and outlines steps for fostering greater use of mother tongues as the language of instruction in schools.

This report analyzes options for a strengthened partnership in education governance in Indonesia. It also analyzes perceived structural inconsistencies in teacher employment and unemployment using the results of the legal and regulatory analysis activity and the “as is” mapping. The analysis demonstrates three important points which includes discussion of oversupply of teachers, staffing ...

The main goal of the program was to overcome malnutrition among schoolchildren in Indonesia. The incidence of stunting in children aged 6-14 years was 13.3% for boys and 10.9% for girls in 2010. One of the key highlights of the program is increasing the community participation and increasing the community’s income through the increased use of local products.

Research analyzing the link between dropout and the literacy skills of 4,000 students in the United States found that students who are unable to read proficiently by the end of the third grade are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma than proficient readers. Research also suggests that poor readers are more likely to experience behavioural and social problems in subsequent grades ...

Promoting university - industry - government (UIG) partnerships for research and innovation has long been a key feature of economic development strategy in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - and now increasingly in developing countries. In Indonesia, effective UIG partnerships have been very few, constrained by a weak enabling environment and limited capacities. ...

The Government of Indonesia has launched an ambitious Master Plan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development or MP3EI, with a view to promoting geographically dispersed growth through establishing seven economic corridors across the nation. The objective of this study is to review the current status of universities in Indonesia in terms of their capacity to work in ...

Overall, schools and communities are very positive about Rintisan Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional (RSBI), and feel that the presence of the school helps the whole community. The RSBI program has produced many schools with an improved environment that will enable them to produce high quality graduates. One key finding demonstrates that students in RSBI-designated schools are not performing better ...

Indonesia faces a fundamental challenge: getting teachers to be present in school. For quality teaching to exist in the classroom, teachers must first and foremost be present. The study builds on earlier work on teacher absence in Indonesia conducted in 2003 and 2008. The study also cites previousanalysis of change over time in the absence rate and the impact of selected policies and programs.

One of the objectives of this study was to develop instruments and processes for collecting data about principal and supervisor competency that could be used by districts, provinces, and national education authorities to collect similar data from a wider sample. This is in line with the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Strategic Plan 2010-2014 to ensure improved quality in the implementation of ...