Alternatives to Attract and Maintain Teachers in Rural Schools in Indonesia in Context of Stringency

Abstract

This paper describes problems pertaining teachers assigned in the rural areas in the whole Indonesia are inconvenient to work and leave the sites. This paper argues that salient problems exist in terms of triviality field condition, performance motivation, incentive, and lax of implementation management. Evidently, policy made by the decision makers in upper to the lower level of policy makers contributes ineffective supports of teachers’ needs and necessities in the sites. The effectiveness of Law on Teacher and Lecturer is problematic stipulated for the teachers problems in rural and remote areas.

Alternatives to Attract and Maintain Teachers in Rural Schools in Indonesia in Context of Stringency

“…None of people graduated from schoolteacher training can become a state teacher without taking national teacher recruitment test. Many official requirements offered by central government in Jakarta to meet by professional participants such as they should sign in an agreement letter to Soebiantoro. 2015 certify that they are ready employed wherever the schools are as long as they are located in Indonesia.…”

“…Badly, a teacher is being impossible to become a head teacher particularly rural teacher even he/she passes the principal recruitment test if he/she isn't able to bargain the transaction of this managerial position and interweave a good channelship with key authority players in provincial office. Mostly urban teachers, who domicile Soebiantoro. 2015 near to this office and possibly are closer to the manager selector as well as determiners, have broader opportunities to gain this position 'head teacher' than the rural one.…”

“…It means that local recruitment system provide the high proportion of autonomy to each districts or at least to each schools to round up new teachers based on the school need. Soebiantoro. 2015 Dodds (1993:27) suggest that governing bodies have to be closely involved in teacher recruitment and retention.…”

“…The range of this system should be cut off to avoid 'No Money No career ' and 'No Friendship No Promotion'. As the new Indonesian government under a female president Megawati Sokarno Putri who is extremely concerned to say war against 'Collusion, Corruption, and Soebiantoro. 2015 Nepotism' as the first step to awake from multi-serious crisis than has been undermining Indonesia since a few years ago.…”