Monday, October 01, 2007

Hard Facts on State of Indonesian Education

Some hard facts on how bad the state of Indonesian education is:

An OECD survey (2004, as cited in World Bank report 2006) revealed that “[Indonesian students’] performance … signals serious deficiencies in students’ ability to use reading as a tool for acquisition of knowledge and skills in other areas” (World Bank, 2006: 5).

Another statistics from the Indonesian Ministry of National Education (2004) uncovered that “34% of elementary school teachers, 71.2% of junior high school teachers, 46.6% of high school teachers, and 33.4% of vocational school teachers being surveyed were incompetent to teach” (as cited in Sampoerna Foundation, 2005: 2).

More to come.

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