Education Indonesia as the Stone Age in the Era of Globalization

JAKARTA - A lot of evidence shows still lack the quality of education in Indonesia. In terms of facilities, there are still hundreds of thousands of schools damaged in the archipelago. In terms of the system, the government is still looking for the ideal curriculum to be implemented. Not to mention the low quality of teachers in the country and spreading uneven, join worsen the condition of education in Indonesia. Ironic, whereas Indonesia is a country with the third highest economic growth in Asia.

Negative portrait of country education is not immune from the eyes of the world. Al-Jazeera, a television news station from Qatar, Indonesia photographing buramnya education in particular reporting 101 East. As reported by Al-Jazeera, on Wednesday (27/02/2013), reporting is investigating why the education system in Indonesia is one of the world's poor.
Al-Jazeera's coverage focused on the story of one of the Young Teachers Teaching program made Anies Baswedan Indonesia. Bachelor of Engineering 23-year-old is leaving the luxury Jakarta to teach in Tambora, Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Before going to the Outer, Frontier, Disadvantaged (3T) in Indonesia, the Young Teacher equipped with military-style survival training.
Al Jazeera said, not long ago Indonesia was ranked in the final ranking that calculates the level of literacy education, test scores, graduation rates, and other key parameters from 50 countries. In addition, only one-third of the 57 million school-age children in Indonesia who complete primary education. The lack of the state of education in Indonesia is also compounded by the poor quality of teaching and the endemic corruption in various fields.
Practitioners and observers assessing education, education system Indpnesia education emphasizes memorization rather than creative thinking. Culture teaching in one direction, rigid approach in religious education, and the lack of reading tasks were identified as major problems.
Indonesia's education experts said that half of the teachers in the country do not have the proper qualifications to teach and 20 percent of the teachers that were often not fulfilled their obligations as teachers. In addition, many public school teachers outside of school work to supplement their income.
Corruption is also rampant in schools and colleges. Many parents had to bribe the school that their children pass the entrance test, or a feature that should be paid by the state. Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) claims, few Indonesian school clean of corruption, with 40 percent of school operating costs that should be allotted them "circumcised" before getting to the classroom.
Meanwhile, millions of dollars in education aid disbursed foreign countries to improve the education system in Indonesia. This figure is not comparable to the amount released by the government of Indonesia to education from the state budget. Some international observers have also questioned why Indonesia still relies on outside funding for school construction Indonesia considering the status of the World Bank as a middle income country.
Respond to such criticism, the government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) launched a new curriculum in an effort to simplify training, reduce dropout rates, and create more doctors. One of the controversies revolving around the new curriculum is a reduction in the number of educational learning science, geography and English in primary schools, as well as increase the number of nationalism and patriotic education.
Many educators consider these conditions may push Indonesia back to the "stone age" in the era of globalization. They argued that early childhood is the time to provide various educational formula that stimulates children's thinking abilities, especially given the high dropout rates after primary school level is.
But the government defended itself by stating that the curriculum changes will simplify the school system has been criticized for charging too much the subject of the lesson to the students.
Sources: http://kampus.okezone.com/read/2013/02/27/373/768147/