EFA in Indonesia : Hard Lessons About Quality

Indonesia has seen vast improvements in access to education over the past thirty years. It is a good example of a country that has followed a disciplined linear approach to EFA: Indonesia focused first on primary school access, next on lower secondary school access, and is only now attempting to address key policy issues to improve learning outcomes. However, many long-established precedents that have a negative impact on quality are proving very hard to change. Indonesia's struggles to improve quality demonstrate the importance of tackling such issues from the very beginning, as initial efforts are put in place to expand access. The Indonesia school system is characterized by startling contradictions. It has seen great gains in primary and lower secondary enrollment as a result of strong political will, but educational quality remains very low. The school year in Grades 3-6 is among the longest in the world (over 1400 hours annually for single shift classrooms), but the potential impact of this extraordinary effort is lost in part because the school year in Grades 1 and 2 is among the shortest in the world (under 500 hours annually in most cases).

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2003-05
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENTS, ADULT ILLITERACY, BASIC EDUCATION, CLASSROOMS, DECENTRALIZATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EDUCATION EXPANSION, EDUCATION INDICATORS, EDUCATIONAL QUALITY, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT RATE, FAMILIES, FREE TEXTBOOKS, GROSS ENROLLMENT, INCOME LEVELS, KEY ROLE, LEARNING, LEARNING MATERIALS, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LEARNING PROCESSES, MEANING, NEGATIVE IMPACT, NET ENROLLMENT, NET ENROLLMENT RATIO, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY ENROLLMENT, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL ACCESS, PRINCIPALS, QUALITY CONTROL, READING, SCHOLARSHIPS, SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY ENROLLMENT, SECONDARY LEVEL, TEACHER, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TEACHING MATERIALS, TEXTBOOKS EDUCATION ACTIVITY, PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, LEARNING APPROACH, TEACHER RECRUITMENT, SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, DONORS, GRANTS IN AID, EDUCATION QUALITY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/2486765/efa-indonesia-hard-lessons-quality https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10386
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