ACDP Indonesia Papers and Policy Briefs

This study was carried out to establish the education-related costs borne by parents of children in basic education. 

Contemporary patterns of global communication and immigration have made multilingual education programmes a way of allowing children to experience multilingual backgrounds as an advantage and as a means of thriving in a multilingual world.

In Indonesia, effective university - industry - government partnerships have been very few, but the Master Plan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development 2011-25 provides an opportunity to change that.

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.

Two Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRAs) reveal that significant improvement in the teaching of reading is required, if all Indonesian children are to be able to read with comprehension by the end of grade 2.

Indonesia’s progress in reducing the rate of teacher absenteeism over the past decade needs to be sustained in the interest of lifting student achievement and reducing disparities among schools.

This study reviews the status of universities in Indonesia in terms of their capacity to work in partnership with industry and government.

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 on average than students in similar non-RSBI schools. The program has also shifted focus to staff development coupled with on-going, results-driven monitoring which will likely result in improved skills and competency in graduates as envisioned by the program.

Having achieved significant increases in access to primary and junior high school education, the Government of Indonesia’s next priority is to increase access to Senior Secondary School education on an equitable basis.

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.