Indonesian Education Problem

Saturday, March 30, 2013 

How can we solve the problems of education in Indonesia? How can it be developed? What is different our curriculum with other curriculum.

Education is defined as a planned effort to establish a study environment and education process that the student can actively develop his/her own potential to gain the religious and spiritual level, consciousness, personality, behavior and creativity to him/herself, other citizens and for the nation in school or college or the knowledge that you get from other.

Nowadays, the less optimal the implementation of the education system in Indonesia caused by difficulty to provide competent teachers to teach in rural settlement. Actually, our curriculum better or same the qualities with the curriculum of developed countries, but implementation not optimal.  The weakness of conscious is community about the importance of education in shape to create Indonesian future leader.

Firstly, Out of past until now the problem is still the specter of educational infrastructure for education in Indonesia. It is because there are many schools that have not received assistance for repairs while the process of repair and construction of schools damaged or not feasible to do so sporadically is not finished. Based on the Ministry of National Education, Indonesia nationwide currently has 899,016 elementary school classrooms, but as many as 293 098 (32.6%) in a damaged condition. While at the junior level, Indonesia has 298,268 classrooms but classrooms in damaged condition reaches 125 320 (42%). When viewed from the region, the most broken class in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) of 7652, followed by Central Sulawesi 1186, 911 Lampung, West Java, 23 415, 2776 Southeast Sulawesi, Banten 4696, 3819 South Sulawesi, West Papua, 576, 22 062 Central Java, Java 17 972 east and 898 West Sulawesi. By seeing the case, we must find some solution like improving the facilities for learning is good forour activities learning. It will get easier to study, because the good facilities can help them much. So they will have willingness to study and make a betterment for our country.

Second, the quality of teachers and teacher competence in Indonesia is still not as expected. In terms of educational qualifications, up from 2.92 million at this time about 51% of new teachers are educated S-1 or more, while the rest have not been educated S-1. So also of the requirements for certification, only 2.06 million or approximately 70.5% of teachers qualified teacher certification while another 861,670 teachers not eligible for certification. By seeing the fact that we just can make some new activities to improve our knowledge like have hobbies such as reading a book. It will be improved the qualities of student and teacher. We can also create our future leader character. So, they would be do independent study for themselves and will knowing more what will we do in the future?

On the other hand, It not effectiveness of our curriculum is mostly than other modern countries. Because of the over kind of subject that we did, it will be not focus to main aims.

To sum up, the curriculum in Indonesia is better than other modern countries, if we doing habits read and improve facilities.