Problem Education in Indonesia

       Education qualities in Indonesia is very poor this time. This is evidenced by data from UNESCO’s data about human development index that is marked by reaching achievement of education, healthy, and income that is shown by human development index more decreased. According to survey of Political and Economic Risk Consultant (PERC) education qualities in Indonesia was ranked 12th of 12 countries in Asia. Indonesia’s position was under Vietnam. The data reported by the World Economic Forum Sweden, Indonesia has a low competitiveness, which is only ranked 37th of 57 countries surveyed in the world. And still according to a survey from the same institution of Indonesia predicated only as a follower rather than as technology leaders from 53 countries worldwide.

          It seems clearly that the problem is serious in improving the quality of education in Indonesia is the low quality of education at all educational levels, both formal and informal education. And that’s what causes the low quality of education that impede the provision of resources human family who have the expertise and skills to meet the nation’s development in various field.

        Low quality of education in Indonesia was also shown Balitbang data that of the 146,052 primary school in Indonesia were only twenty six schools who received worldwide recognition in the category of The Primary Years Programme (PYP). Of the 20 918 junior high school in Indonesia was also only eleven schools that received worldwide recognition in the category of The Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the 8036 high school was only nineteen schools who received worldwide recognition in the category of the Diploma Programme (DP).

          The caused of low quality of education in Indonesia among others is a matter of effectiveness, efficiency and standardization of teaching. It is still a problem of education as generally in Indonesia. The specific problems in education are:
1) Poor infrastructure,
2) The low quality of teachers
3) Low welfare of teachers,
4) The low student achievement,
5) The low educational equity opportunities,
6) The low relevance of education to the needs,
7) The high tuition of education.

Sumber : https://aminsutrajabe.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/problem-education-in-indonesia/