Madrasah make a significant contribution to meeting district enrollment standards and Human Development Index targets. They also make a significant contribution to meeting district Minimum Service Standards. Madrasah are known to receive insufficient funding to carry out quality education, and in the case of private madrasah, are significantly under-funded in comparison with state schools. Dece ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report examines the policy options and financial implications of the expansion of senior secondary education in Indonesia. The current funding of government senior secondary education is complex and varies throughout the country. It involves different levels of government providing financial support for infrastructure, salaries, and operational costs.

This report provides an overview of the policy and strategic context for gender mainstreaming in education over the last decade. It includes an analysis of the structures of governance and roles and responsibilities for gender mainstreaming in education at the national, provincial, and district levels. The review covers relevant programs over the last decade--including gender specific and ...

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.

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.

Bantuan Operasional Sekolah, or School Operational Fund was introduced in 2005 as a program to support schools and madrasahs offering basic education. The program’s specific focus has been on funds for operational non-personnel budgets for schools and madrasahs. The program was a result of the government’s decision not to increase the country’s fuel subsidy, but to direct the money to programs ...

Indonesia has made impressive improvements in education over the last decade and is on track to meeting Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 (universal primary education and gender parity). The country has a national net primary (years 1 to 6) enrolment rate of 94.7 percent with equal enrolment for girls and boys.1 GOI recognises that it has not yet achieved its national ‘Education for All’ ...