If you do not have Flash 4 on your computer there should be warning and a link so that you can download it (test for Flash 4 below). Just 200,000 out of 1.25 million Indonesian elementary school teachers held a university degree in 2006, while the majority of them had a senior secondary school diploma or a Diploma 2. The country spent 3.6 percent of its GDP on education in 2015, only marginally more than in 2008 when it spent 3.5 percent. Indonesia is presently the 10th-largest country of origin of international students in Australia. However, public education spending as a percentage of GDP has stagnated over the past decade and remains well below recommended levels for emerging economies (at 3.6 percent of GDP in 2015). On the other hand, since the election of Donald Trump as president, the U.S. has become less popular according to Indonesian public opinion polls. Curricula typically include some course work at the onset of the program, a comprehensive examination, and the preparation and defense of a dissertation. It does not include students on shorter study abroad exchanges, or those enrolled at the secondary level or in short-term language training programs, for instance. [5], Furthermore, there are significant student movements to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the latter being a major labor migration destination for Indonesian workers. “If they want to learn about their religion, they can learn about it at home,” he said in an interview. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Indonesia takes place both within the formal school system as well as informally in apprenticeships, other work-based training programs or training programs at governmental vocational and skills training centers (Balai Latihan Kerja, or BLK). That said, this ratio remains far from the government’s goal of making senior secondary education universal for all Indonesian youth. Egypt, on the other hand, draws sizable numbers of Indonesian students each year to its famous Al-Azhar University, known as “Sunni Islam’s most prestigious university.”. Medical schools are university faculties, close to two-thirds of which are part of private universities. Education and Social Welfare. Features Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Java, Sumatra, Bali. Such issues “are largely under the jurisdiction of local governments, in the framework of regional autonomy,” he said. Thailand, India, and China are other larger sending countries with 804, 674, and 431 students, respectively, in 2017, per the UIS. From 2001 to 2004, the number of students completing their sarjana degrees grew dramatically from about 308,000 in 2001 to nearly 683,000 in 2004, a 122-percent increase. It was composed of units of BPTRI and UVI; the name Universiteit Indonesia was later changed to Universitas Indonesia. If you are the copyright owner and would like this content removed from factsanddetails.com, please contact me. But … According to the most recent regulations, there are four test subjects taken in the UN: Indonesian, English, mathematics, and one elective subject from students’ respective specialization streams. Public institutions are generally highly selective. Nearly half of Indonesian students surveyed in 2017 indicated that they would require financial assistance in order to study abroad. In 2003 the unemployment rate for college graduates with the sarjana degree was approximately 20 percent, and 10 percent for graduates of professional schools. Tremendous progress was made toward the goal of universal education under Suharto. However, national exams have been deprioritized in recent years, and since 2015 no longer make up the mandatory core assessment criterion. In 2018, Indonesia legally allowed foreign branch campuses to operate in the country. C. May/Shostal Associates. The migration corridor connecting the two countries is one of the largest in Asia, over which 1.5 million Indonesian migrants traversed to Saudi Arabia in 2017. Only in the last years of colonial rule did the Dutch try to build an educational system. In Indonesia educations begins with six years of elementary school ( sekolah dasar, SD) followed by three years of middle school ( sekolah menengah pertama, SMP) followed by three years of high school ( sekolah menengah atas, SMA). Student–teacher ratios also compare satisfactorily with those in many Asian nations: They were 23.4 to 1 and 18.8 to 1, respectively, for primary and secondary schools in 2004; that same year, the overall averages for Asia-Pacific countries were 22 to 1 and 18 to 1, respectively. Whereas tuition in such state institutions is more affordable for average students than private-university tuition, faculty salaries are low by international standards. Since the mid-2000s, Indonesia has implemented a broad range of education reforms, including the decentralization of parts of its school system, improvements in teacher training standards, and sizable increases in education spending (as a share of the national budget). The first HEIs were established in the 1920s on Java. Participation in upper-secondary education has grown briskly in general with the GER jumping from 69.5 percent to 80 percent between 2012 and 2017, according to UIS data. Among these is the State Muslim University (UIN)—formerly called the State Institute for Islamic Religion (IAIN)—which has been an important venue for progressive debates about Islam. S2 Magister programs are relatively new in Indonesia and were not established on a larger scale until the beginning of the 1990s, initially only at public institutions. Yenni Kwok wrote in the New York Times, “ Indonesia has consistently been among the worst performers in the Program for International Student Assessment — the triennial test given to 15- and 16-year-old students from 65 countries by the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development. ^+^, “Some schools now hold a daily mass recital of the Koran before formal classes begin. Current legislation mandates that all Indonesian university instructors hold a master’s degree. In higher education, Indonesian is the medium of instruction as well, but English is becoming more common for some programs, and textbooks are commonly printed in English. Here are 25 facts that you might not know about Indonesia… Fact 1) Jakarta’s Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is one of the largest stadium in the world. The study activities are spent almost at the class. In 2017, merely 65 institutions (less than 2 percent of all HEIs) obtained the highest level of accreditation in Indonesia, while quality at the remaining institutions varied—some HEIs had no accredited programs at all. While the program is still small, with fewer than 1,000 students participating in 2016, numbers have increased steadily since its launch in 2010. Some S2 programs are taught in English. In 2008 primary and secondary education, both private and public, included: 63,444 kindergartens, 144,228 six-year primary schools, 28,777 junior secondary schools, 10,762 general senior secondary schools, and 7,592 vocational senior secondary schools, enrolling total of 45.4 million students taught by 2.9 million teachers. Indonesia also happens to possess the sixth worst inequality of wealth in the world. Indonesia’s government revised the national school curriculum in 2013 to place greater emphasis on “moral character education” and creative thinking (Kurrikulum 2013). Revised history textbooks were introduced in 2004. Islamic schools are under the responsibility of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Indonesia is already an exporter, not merely a consumer, of education, and it is thus a source of foreign income for the country. Polytechnics, on the other hand, generally offer shorter, employment-geared, vocational diploma programs. New campuses of the University of Indonesia near Jakarta, and Hasanuddin University near Makassar, for example, were built far from their previous locations at the center of these cities, to curb mobilization and marching. Almost the study hours is spent at the class. Religion Is Diverse. Only about 16 percent of institutions were faith based in 2015, including 11 public universities and 95 private universities. Learning outcomes, as measured by test results in the OECD PISA study, show that students at public schools are better prepared. It’s now mandatory for all HEIs to have their programs accredited. [Source: Library of Congress *], Indonesia’s institutions of higher education have experienced dramatic growth since independence. Sukarno studied civil engineering there and formed a study club that grew into the Indonesian Nationalist Party. In practice, many elementary teachers held only a secondary school credential. If a university has a religious affiliation, it can cover some of its costs with donations or grants from international religious organizations. Compared with how the school system is administered, higher education is generally more centrally controlled. Life expectancy is seven years lower than in Vietnam. Demand for higher education will also be driven by the fact that there is a severe skilled labor shortage in Indonesia. Admission usually requires an S1 degree in a related discipline with a minimum GPA of 2.5 (on a 4-point scale), but entrance examinations and demonstrated English language abilities may also be required. Academies are dedicated to vocational education at the undergraduate level and can be public or private. Like its secondary school system, Indonesia’s higher education system is binary in nature. Public institutions also tend to have a better reputation in Indonesia as well as internationally: All five Indonesian universities included among the top 2,000 in the current Times Higher Education World University Ranking, for example, are public, including the University of Indonesia, Indonesia’s oldest public university ranked highest at position 601—800, and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ranked at position 801—1,000). Overall, the e-learning market in Indonesia has grown by 25 percent between 2010 and 2015. In 2002, newly democratic Indonesia inserted into its constitution a requirement that governments at all levels to … [Source: everyculture.com **], The Republic of Indonesia Institute for Higher Education (BPTRI) was founded in Jakarta shortly after independence was declared in 1945. It is important for the government to support the growth of this group in all fronts. Unlike state universities, private institutions have budgets that are almost entirely tuition-driven. Students may transfer from Diploma programs into academic Sarjana programs and at some institutions may be admitted into S2 Magister programs in related disciplines. In a survey by the U.S. State Department in 2000, 95 percent of all respondents said schools should provide more religious instruction for children. While accreditation is mandatory for all academic programs offered in Indonesia, the rapid growth of the education systems makes it difficult for BAN-PT assessors to keep up. © 2020 World Education Services. TVET is prioritized in order to alleviate severe skilled labor shortages. At that time, Suharto issued an order to set aside portions of oil revenues for the construction of new primary schools. Professional entry-to-practice qualifications in disciplines like architecture, medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine are usually earned by completing long undergraduate programs of five- or six-years duration. While 55 percent of students enrolled in academic programs in 2015, enrollments in the vocational track have been growing fast in recent years, at annual rates of 12 to 14 percent between 2004 and 2012. Public Schools in Indonesia Increasing Go Islamic, Yenni Kwok wrote in the New York Times, “When Lies Marcoes heard that her daughter’s high school, in Bogor, Indonesia, required all female Muslim students to wear a head veil once a week, she was furious. The Indonesian school system is immense and diverse. It still has tremendous potential for further expansion, given that the country is already viewed as one of the world’s largest markets for mobile learning. However, these distinctions between private and public HEIs have since been abolished. The country’s qualifications framework, established in 2012 to facilitate mobility between academic programs and the recognition of prior learning, illustrates the different subsystems and how they are related. All Rights Reserved. They are typically two years (four semesters) in length and involve 36 to 50 credit units, as well as the preparation of a thesis or completion of a graduation project. These straddle secondary and post-secondary education and lead to the award of a one-year post-secondary diploma (D1) in addition to a senior secondary school diploma. When it was completed in 1962 to host the Asian Games it’s original capacity was 120,800 people, which would have made it the second largest today. Private universities are generally operated by foundations. Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of country or topic discussed in the article. But … Beyond that, Malaysia is a relatively affordable study destination compared with Western countries, yet it has a sizable number of foreign branch campuses of reputable Western universities. Questions or comments, e-mail ajhays98@yahoo.com, Education, Health, Energy, Transportation - Education in Indonesia. Only about a third of students complete high school. Education in Indonesia falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan or Kemdikbud) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (Kementerian Agama or Kemenag). In 2005 the central government launched a massive plan known in English as the School Operation Fund that pumped billions of rupiah directly into schools. Teacher-training programs are varied and gradually being upgraded. Requirements at most private institutions are typically less strenuous than at public HEIs. Education enables development and is crucial to helping people overcome poverty. The government projected in 2016 that Indonesia needs 3.8 million new skilled workers annually until 2030 to bridge a gap of 56 million skilled workers. The government presently prioritizes early education and has achieved a sharp increase in the nationwide preschool GER from 50.2 percent in 2010 to 72 percent in 2014. However, since the end of the Suharto regime and the subsequent democratization of Indonesia, various functions of government have been decentralized and transferred to locally elected district governments. The vast majority of Indonesian higher education institutions (HEIs) are smaller private providers of lesser quality, while admission into public universities is highly competitive. This constitutes 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. That said, the school system is still centrally steered by the MOE, which is responsible for curriculum development, the hiring of teachers, and national school examinations. Given the rapid modernization of the country, the need for trained professionals in Indonesia has grown tremendously in recent years. The system is supervised by the Ministry of National Education (which is responsible for nonreligious, public schools—about 92 percent of total enrollment at the primary level and 44 percent at the secondary level) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (which is responsible for religious, private, and semiprivate schools—about 15 percent of total enrollment). That was one of the main reasons for President Yudhoyono’s triumphant re-election in 2009. Indonesia - Indonesia - Housing: In rural areas the floors of dwellings consist of pounded earth, concrete, or raised wood, while wooden framing supports walls of woven bamboo matting; the roofs are of dried palm fibre, tiles, or wood. Nearly 98 percent of students complete primary school according to United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) estimates in 2001. Poorly trained university instructors are another issue of concern. The McKinsey Global Institute projected in 2012 that Indonesia’s “consuming class”[3] will grow “stronger than in any economy of the world apart from China and India,” and will triple from 45 million to 135 million people by 2030. There are more than 10,000 formal vocational secondary schools on the archipelago, mostly clustered on the populous islands of Java and Sumatra, about 70 percent of them private. This site has been developed for use by students in the classroom or at home during their middle years of schooling. There are several different types of HEIs, including universities, institutes, advanced schools, academies, polytechnics, and community academies. They were devastating, with three Australians killed in the blasts. It is one of … [Source: CIA World Factbook], Twelve-year public and private primary and secondary education system; the first nine years mandatory. In 2018, about 30 percent of seats at 85 state universities were assigned directly to 110,946 students via national SNMPTN selection, while the remaining 70 percent had to sit for entrance examinations. Despite these difficulties, most institutions of higher education receive large numbers of applications; in state institutions, less than one in four applications was accepted in 2004; in private institutions, the acceptance rate was nearly two out of three. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country (behind China, India, and the United States). The vast majority—more than 90 percent—of HEIs in Indonesia are privately owned. Together, these three countries make up the study destinations of nearly 60 percent of all outbound Indonesian students. Areas like rural West Timor or Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan) are worlds apart from the flashy shopping malls of downtown Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city of about 10 million people. This is especially so, given the expected rise of disposable incomes in Indonesia. Although she herself was a Muslim and a graduate of an Islamic university in Jakarta, she went to the school to object to the imposition of the religious uniform in a state school. Meanwhile, funding for the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education, a governmental scholarship program for graduate students studying both domestically and abroad, has more than doubled between 2016 and 2017, from USD$105 million to USD$225 million. The New Order regime made great efforts to expand educational opportunities while also influencing the curriculum, controlling student activities, and appointing pliant faculty members to administrative positions. This includes support to improve quality of education and skills of the population and promoting job-creating growth and ample access to social protection….”. Most religious schools emphasize Islamic values and thought. [2] Calculation based on the sum of Population aged 14 years or younger and Population aged 15-24 years from 2017 UIS data. Institutes are specialized university-level HEIs that offer only academic programs in particular fields. Indonesia has a vast, rapidly growing, and highly diverse higher education landscape. Pupils who complete junior secondary education at religious schools under the purview of the Ministry of Religious Affairs receive the equivalent certificate of completion of madrasah tsanawiyah (MTs). The best universities are mostly in Java. These include a constitutional mandate to spend 20 percent of the national budget on education, decentralizing some functions of the education sector to the district and school level, and implementing the Teacher Law in 2005. Few universities offer doctoral programs. The figure plummeted afterwards in part because parents needed their children to help bring in money. The adult literacy rate ranges between 88.5 percent, according to a U.S. Government estimate for 2003, and 90.2 percent, according to a 2001 UNESCO estimate. While this trend, if it materializes, is expected to enable larger numbers of Indonesians of more limited financial means to enroll in Australian institutions, it may simultaneously stop other students from going to Australia, since they’ll be able to access Australian education in Indonesia. By 1961 the illiteracy rate had dropped to 40 percent from 95 percent in the 1940s and the number of universities increased from 4 to 25. Indonesia, home to 264 million people (2017, World Bank), is the fourth most populous country in the world. Angel Rabasa of Rand Corporation wrote: “In Indonesia, religious education in state-run schools is multi-religious. The national curriculum largely includes the same subjects as in elementary education, but also adds additional science classes in biology, chemistry, or physics; social science subjects like world history; and English. After the 1998 Asian crisis crippled the Indonesian economy, schools imposed fees on parents because of a lack of funding. In Indonesia, all citizens must undertake twelve years of compulsory education which consists of six years at elementary level and three each at middle and high school levels. [Source: Yenni Kwok, New York Times, June 15, 2014 ^+^], “About 400 kilometers, or 260 miles, away, in Yogyakarta, central Java, another parent, Tri Agus Susanto Siswowiharjo, says he would like to send his daughters to a public secondary school, but he, too, is worried that they would have to wear Islamic dress. Indonesia is the world's most populous Islamic nation; a majority are Sunnis. While Islamic education was long regarded as second rate, the rise of Islamic conservatism in Indonesia has led to an increase in Islamic education in public school curricula in recent years. With a population of 264 million, Indonesia is known for being the 4th most populated country in the … Life expectancy in Indonesia is 69.6 years. The government has also increased resources to schools with the School Operational Assistance Grant (Bantuan … Already, between 2006 and 2016, total enrollment grew by 68 percent, from nearly 3.7 million to more than 6.1 million. Now, Jakarta is a huge, modern city. Remuneration for primary- and secondary-school teachers, although low, compares favorably with that in other Asian countries such as Malaysia, India, and Thailand. This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been authorized by the copyright owner. This new ranking system does not affect recognition status, but is designed to foster competition between institutions. They typically require the completion of 144 to 150 credit units of course work and a thesis. A central goal of the national education system is not merely to impart secular wisdom about the world but also to instruct children in the principles of participation in the modern nation-state, its bureaucracies, and its moral and ideological foundations. •Indonesia Mengajar. *. According to a ranking of education systems and worker productivity in Asia by Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Indonesia was last out of 12 countries. Lecturers often have other jobs outside the university to supplement their wages. AIMS supports study abroad for one semester at participating institutions in the ASEAN. School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): total: 13 years; male: 13 years; female: 13 years (2011). A onetime registration fee (which can be quite high) is determined at the time of entry. As a result, the number of school teachers at all levels of school education holding a Sarjana shot up from 37 percent in 2003 to 90 percent in 2016. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Even in the 1940s only about 4 percent of the Indonesian population could read. In the mid 2000s Islamic factions and parties pushed through a national education bill which required schools to provide students with religious teaching according to their faiths. The number of primary school students increased from 2 million in 1940 to 8 million in 1961 and the number of secondary school students increased from 25,500 to 700,000. The academic year in the school systems generally lasts from July to June with a break in December and during the Muslim Eid Holiday. But the ministry’s spokesman, Ibnu Hamad, says the central government does not have powers to intervene. Also, the strong migrant networks that have developed over decades of large-scale migration may provide a reassuring cultural environment for Indonesian students. Other major universities include Catholic University in Bandung and the Institut Pertanian Bogor, in Bogor. The professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that Indonesia will grow into the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2050. ^+^, “But as the government loosens up, allowing students and teachers to wear the head veil — should they choose to do so — has become a mark of religious difference even within schools. This institution enrolls about 37,000 students per year. *, Some say Indonesia has one of the worst education systems in the world. The top three destination countries for Indonesian degree-seeking students enrolled overseas are Australia, the U.S., and Malaysia. In the PISA rankings, Indonesian students’ scores in math, reading and science lag behind the average of their peers. BAN-PT maintains an Indonesian-language database of accredited programs. There were 2,308 of these institutions throughout the archipelago in 2018, the majority of them smaller, specialized private schools. Existing shortcomings are amplified by the rapid growth of the system and the mushrooming of low-quality private providers absorbing the surging demand. The percentage of people who have access to electricity has jumped from 55 percent in 1993 to 98 percent in 2016. There were 10,646 Indonesian degree students in the country in 2016 compared with 10,148 in 2004. Programs are a minimum of three years, but usually take longer to complete. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. They made Indonesians obey laws they did not like, and after many years- in Aug 17, 1945- they declared independence from the Netherlands. There have been some plans to make English mandatory at Indonesian universities, but these plans have not been realized as of today. A university’s rank is based on factors like publication output, accreditation rating, and, since 2018, scientific innovation. Indonesian HEIs use a number of different grading scales, most of which are variations of the U.S.-style A to B scale, either with or without “+” and “-” designations. But the Southeast Asian country is simultaneously a diverse, complex, and multicultural nation of more than 300 ethnic groups that speak hundreds of different languages. Beginning under Guided Democracy (1959–65) and strengthened in the New Order after 1975, a key feature of the national curriculum—as was the case for other national institutions—has been instruction in the Pancasila. It signed a free trade agreement with Australia that lays the groundwork for Australian universities like the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland to establish branch campuses in Indonesia. Study and training programs in disciplines like dentistry and veterinary medicine are organized similarly. Public expenditures have since grown drastically, nearly tripling since the early 2000s. Some programs may incorporate internships and other practical training components. The massive 29 million member-strong Islamic organization Muhammadiyah (followers of Muhammad), for instance, currently operates 172 universities, some 2,600 elementary schools, and close to 3,000 secondary schools throughout Indonesia. Some 10 percent of the population identify as Christians and about 1.7 percent as Hindus. Note that the Chinese data include different types of students, whereas UIS data for Malaysia comprise only those students enrolled in formal degree programs. 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