Teacher Reform in Indonesia: The Role of Politics and Evidence in Policy Making

Chang, Mae Chu; Shaeffer, Sheldon; Al-Samarrai, Samer; Ragatz, Andrew B.; Ree, Joppe de; Stevenson, Ritchie

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“…Improving teacher quality particularly pedagogic competency is also required as the school dropouts mentioned about problems with teachers as one of reasons for dropping out of school. It confirms Chang et al (2014) findings that showed ineffectiveness of teacher reform in Indonesia in improving student-learning achievement. The mechanism of school operational grants program should also be improved regarding the regulation, which should be assessed not only based on number of students but also the number of poor students, so that poor students will get more financial provisions.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…They said that instead of encouraging their children, the teachers marginalized their children who had poor academic performance or behaved badly at school. It might be the reason for the ineffectiveness of teacher reform in Indonesia as found by Chang, et al (2014). This research highlights findings of Behrman, Deolalikar, and Soon (2002) whose findings reported that the increased bill for teachers' salaries and incentives contributed to the poor quality of education service and impacted on poor educational outcome achievement in Philippines' junior secondary education.…”

Section: A Discussionsupporting

confidence: 67%

“…The high proportion of salary spending may appear in all district governments in Indonesia, given that teachers comprise the largest number of government officials and most of them have received remuneration (Sujarwoto & Tampubolon, 2015;Chang, et al, 2014). This means that routine spending in each local government dwarf the spending assigned to project or program implementations.…”

Section: Advances In Social Science Education and Humanities Researcmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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Sujarwoto²,

Hidayati³

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy and Governance Studies (ICAS-PGS 2017) and the In

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

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Sujarwoto²,

Hidayati³

2017

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“…They list at least three problems of teachers faced by Indonesia, i.e. teacher quality, teacher welfare, and teacher politicization (Chang et al, 2014;Tobias et al, 2014). All products of legislation about teachers has given an understanding that government pays "enough' attention to teachers from regulation perspective.…”

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Identification of teachers’ problems in Indonesia on facing global community

Sulisworo¹,

Nasir²,

Maryani³

2016

IJRSE

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A quality teacher is one who has a positive effect on student learning and development through a combination of content mastery, command of a broad set of pedagogic skills, and communications/ interpersonal skills. The perception toward the teacher's vital role in the success of learning is reasonable as, in case there is an insufficient learning facility, we do still have a hope if the teacher has standard competence to do so. At least three problems of teachers faced by Indonesia, i.e. teacher quality, teacher welfare, and teacher politicization This paper is a deductive and inductive descriptive analysis writing using secondary data from literature. A number of facts related to teachers are then analyzed qualitatively to gain comprehensive descriptive of teachers' condition in Indonesia. The teachers' quality as one of education problems is influenced by many factors. To deal with this, the authority needs to keep socializing all standards of regulations out teacher's qualification and competence, to build teachers' self-awareness to always develop their ability and skills through workshops, education qualification upgrade, and independent learning to enhance their quality of teaching. Teacher's welfare is one of motivation to boost teachers' quality and performance to improve and to better the quality of education development in Indonesia. To overcome this problem, the government should attempt to eliminate problems of big wealthy gap and injustice rights among the teachers with different wages, to increase stipend for honorary teachers who's under minimum regional payment, and to realize other teacher's allowances on time. Teacher politicization problem is unavoidable since it is realistic effect of regional autonomy practice and education decentralization policy. The teachers are used by the local ruler for their political interest. Or reversely the teachers take advantages of the political situation to get compensation or certain political benefits.

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“…Teacher certification program has been criticized for a number of reasons, such as that the process for obtaining the certificate does not lead to improvement of teachers' competencies and that certified teachers do not significantly improve their teaching [2]. Teacher certification program, however, is a powerful attraction to improve the number of students' interests to the profession.…”

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Widodo¹

2017

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Teacher Reform in Indonesia: The Role of Politics and Evidence in Policy Making

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

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

Identification of teachers’ problems in Indonesia on facing global community

Experienced biology teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) on photosynthesis

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