Preventing Students From Dropping Out of School In Indonesia's Basic Education: What Should Government Do?

Abstract

Abstract-High students drop-out have been a critical issue of decentralized basic education in Indonesia. With around 2.6 million students (age 7-15 years old) who drop out of school, Indonesian government should promote effective policies for reducing school dropouts. We conducted a case study at Sleman regency to understand why decentralization policies failed to reduce school dropouts and what main reason of children dropped out of school in Indonesia's basic education. The findings suggest that dropping out of school could be a process of disadvantages caused by household socioeconomic deprivation and social marginalization, as well as disabling public policy. Instead of reducing school dropouts, we found that decentralized policy in term of fiscal autonomy may lead to the risk of school dropouts at the elementary school, transition, and junior high school levels. We found lack of efficiency on educational budget allocation and inefficiency in program implementations to be the main challenges that prevent district government from effectively reducing school dropouts. The findings suggest that local governments must improve their efficiency in allocating educational expenditures through implementing strategic policies that directly purposed to prevent students from dropping out of school.

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