Education in Indonesia

The quality of education in Indonesia is still low. Taken from Survey United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in education quality include develop Asian Pasific country, Indonesia is in grade 10 from 14. Meanwhile for teachers quality they are in 14 from 14 develop country. In short, there are many factors that make education in Indonesia low, such us the physical device, the quality and prosperity of teachers, and the education system.

The physical device still is not quite enough and need more attention. We can see, that many school buildings and college buildings is in damaged. Also, the media of education  is still not use in properly. In addition, the book collections in library and equipments in laboratory are not complete yet. Moreover, there are schools that did not have their own building, their own library, and their own laboratory. The government should give attention for this problem.

The quality and prosperity of teachers are still low. Most of teachers still do not have professionalism for teaching, even though the quantity is enough. The government still did not give them enough attention, especially in making them more professional. We still found, many teachers teaching in subject that they did not capable on it. The low prosperity make the quality of education in Indonesia low. With low prosperity, many teachers need to do additional job for fulfilling they daily need. For example, they have to teaching again in the other school, they become an addition teacher course in the afternoon, they become a seller book; pulse,etc. The teachers situation in Indonesia also need more attention.

The education system in Indonesia is only make the students become an object, so the output is not ready to face in critically with the period. The curiculum is only look from the government knowledge side, without have attention with the society need. Curiculum was make in Jakarta did not think about the low society condition. In fact, the output is only smart in seeking a job, not making a job, but actually in case is the job vacancy is limited. With that curiculum, education can not give creative output.

To conclude, there are many factors can make quality of education in Indonesia low. The factors are physical device is still not quite enough, quality and prosperity of teacher is still low, and the education system. We need teamwork between government and society for solving this complicated situation.