The Low Quality of Indonesia’s Education
Jeremy Jason Kristian Sutrisno
Unbelievable fact: Indonesia’s education
quality is in the lowest rank in the world based on East 101’s data!
Education is really important among the civilian’s life in order to fulfill their needs in educational life. The citizen’s right in earning education must be fulfilled as it stated in “1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia Chapter 28 Point C Verse 1” said that:
“Setiap orang berhak mengembangkan diri
melalui pemenuhan kebutuhan dasarnya, berhak mendapat pendidikan dan memperoleh
manfaat dari ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, seni dan budaya, demi meningkatkan
kualitas hidupnya dan demi kesejahteraan umat manusia.”
“Everyone has the right to develop
themselves through the fulfillment of basic needs, entitled to education and
get the benefit from science and technology, arts and culture, in order to
improve the quality of life and for the welfare of mankind.”
(Translated by the writer)
But
in case, Indonesia lacks of some effort in supporting the education for the
civilians. Many troubles had blocked the path of education into all the
students, so they couldn’t get their right to learn education properly.
Indonesia’s
low quality of education was caused by so many reasons that came from outside
and also inside the country. Many efforts had been done by the government to
improve the education’s support and quality. In fact, their support still has trouble
at managing it because some factors that affect it did not recognize fully. That’s why Indonesia’s education system needs to be restructured.
The first point is that Indonesia had
many low qualities of teachers that still became a paradigm in education world. Having a low
quality of teachers may produce a low quality of students that they cannot
achieve the true meaning of education in this world. Many teachers didn’t meet
the condition of being a professional teacher. In Indonesia, the teachers
rarely had professional skills in teaching the students (East 101, 2013). In order to become an appropriate and qualified
teacher, they must at least have four basic competencies that must be acquired
first (Hartik, 2016). Four of them are pedagogic competency, professional
competency, personality competency, and social competency (Sumiyati, 2016). By acquiring them,
they can be considered as a good quality of teacher, so they can produce a
great future of brilliant students. Yet, often after acquiring them, the
teachers didn’t get the right payment for their efforts in teaching the
students. Many teachers got a shock moment because mostly they think that their
efforts have gone useless in school. As a result, they teach the students with
all what they want and only desire to increase the amount of the salary without
thinking that the students get the true education from them. It needs to be
reconsidered again that we might need stratification for the teachers in order
to get a good quality of teachers that can teach the students properly. Anis
Baswedan as the education minister had already planned the stratification
program for all the teachers in Indonesia (Latief, 2014).
In other points, it is really
unbelievable that many schools in Indonesia had many corruption cases while
bringing the educational right purposes into this country. Not only in the
politic, schools were being affected by corruption too. It was really
unpredictable that through school, corruption can affect the educational life.
Therefore, the teacher’s salary maybe was reduced because there were some
corruptions and the teachers got the impact of it. Not only that, the schools
maybe did bribery as their initiative or something else. And also, embezzlement
in school’s contribution in infrastructure and school’s learning tools. This
did not only happen in small regions in Indonesia, but also in larger regions. Usually,
this happened a lot with the government’s donation through schools that need
help. This causes so many troubles for the students who want to study in
schools. Students got their rights and obligation in schools, but how can they
continue their study if they didn’t get their rights and only do their
obligations? For example, if a student cannot study with a book material to
study, how can he/she learn writing and reading? They cannot afford a book
material if the price is too expensive (caused by the corruption). Therefore,
why the government didn’t try to improve their support in cleaning the
corruption in every school? It can be dangerous if the students learn all of
the corruption rules itself in schools that can make their future become
unknown or maybe worst.
Indicating
the educational life’s situation right now, every single aspect in education
parts take an important rule that need to be watched carefully. Maybe, the
government needs to improve their effort especially in education section.
Education is really important among people’s life. People acts and does some
action based on what they get from the education. So, Indonesia government must pay attention to the education system
that has been going on in this country to be fixed a lot, so that Indonesia can
support and create a good educational life among all students in this country.
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September 18). Wardiman Djojonegoro:
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