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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.