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 ...

This paper is part of a project on Free Basic Education Strategy Development. The objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive strategy for the implementation of Free Basic Education in Indonesia, covering policy, funding, accountability, capacity development, and system requirements. The strategy also has to address the particular needs of a portion of Indonesia’s population which ...

The study was carried out to establish the education-related costs borne by parents of children in basic education. Data gathered from the schools/madrasahs in the sample included information about their total budgets and total contributions received from parents during the 2010/2011 school year, as well as information about how these funds were used. The sample size of the survey included 4,032 ...

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.

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.

The development objectives of the support to Free Basic Education Strategy Development are to contribute towards achieving medium- to long-term social and economic national development goals through the development of effective policies, strategies, and programs for implementation of Free Basic Education in Indonesia.

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 ...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the central government policies, regulations and budget lines which relate to the establishment, management and funding of Basic Education Minimum Service Standards (BE-MSS). It also examined the legislative base of BE-MSS, the current roles and functions of key players relevant to the operations of the program and the main central government funding lines ...