On Education in Indonesia

Indonesia's Voice of Independence recently published an editorial on education, which is summarized as follows: Dr. Mo Suglia, President of the Indonesian Teachers' Association, has published a surprising report. Indonesia is one of the eight countries that have failed in education. Its failure lies in its large population and insufficient education funds. In addition, the conditions in the field of education are extremely poor and the quality of teachers is not high enough. He also cited other examples of failure, which attracted people's attention. He said that Indonesia did not meet the agreement of 150 countries in the world in 1990, and reached the goal of all school-age children in the country within 10. The so-called nine-year basic education plan, which was widely publicized in the past, was actually just publicity.

Regarding the shortage of education funds, some people cite Malaysia, the nearest neighbor, as an example. Last year, Indonesia's budget allocation for education was 6%, but this year it has dropped to 4.6%. Last year, Malaysia allocated more than 12% to education, but this year it rose to 16%. So this phenomenon appeared. Until the 1960s, Indonesia sent a large number of teachers to Malaysia to help them develop their education. Many doctors have also been sent to fill vacancies in their hospitals. Now, on the other hand, many educators go to Kuala Lumpur to study for doctoral degrees. We also often see many puzzling problems in education.

For example, fights or even fights between classmates. It happened not only in big cities such as Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya or Medan, but also in small cities such as Buvoje. Students may also quarrel or even fight over trifles such as girlfriends, staring at each other and touching each other. Is this also a failure in education?

Some people think that this is the result of abolishing moral education. After the outbreak of the economic crisis, the situation is of course even more worrying.

Indonesia has really become poor. Education funds have decreased. Millions of school-age children are threatened with dropping out of school, and some have even dropped out of school. As far as the national model is concerned, he has no leader to worship. At the top, the national political elites argue endlessly, destroy each other and completely ignore moral reason. Under the current situation, it is simply a pipe dream to expect to increase education funds. Everything can only rely on teachers, but in such a scarce situation, how much innovation can they have and give play to their ideals?