“Students Formation Camps should have been introduced since Kindergarten,” states Kathryn Rivai, director of United School Program Sampoerna Foundation recently. There are out bond activities while students can carry out direst research in the field. “This is important to complete the existing curriculum. We see it as part of academic matter rather than holistic and it is part of the KBK,” she added.

Students are taught to be more responsible, training their leadership, and taught to appreciate important values in community life. "What students have learnt in school should be applied in the community,” she explained.

She added that the program does not have to be carried out outside the school. “It could be carried out inside the school environment, like building school garden, recycling waste, as well as other activities concerning with the environment,” she said.
Its working system is also simple. Each teachers make a daily planning, which then discussed along with students, i.e, environmental team (working team) consisting of five students.

Students formation camp is directly linked to community service project explained the woman who speaks Indonesian fluently. Which means, each student or working team has to prepare a program for the community around the school. “This can be done in the form of school for orphaned children or special school. Students will have to plan the project for 2 hours per day," she explained.

However, in reality, Students Formation Camp have not bee applied in all schools form Kindergarten to Senior High School. Only some school with abundant budget such as Bina Nusantara and Al Azhar could finance their students’ activities.
"Yes, I know more funds are needed to carry out such activities, especially state schools. But I am sure they have the budget but they have not found any suitable program. We have helped 21 schools in Indonesia and we hope that some companies or other stake holders want to offer such assistance for education like us," she hopes.

During her work in Indonesia for Sampoerna Foundation, Kathryn have made programs for teachers in some adopted schools, among others Bina Nusantara as well as other 20 schools, which includes, training module, teaching subject improvement, and teachers exchange. Several training modules that have been implemented include teaching planning or daily planning.

"According to my observation, this is not widely implemented in Indonesia. Many teachers, who actually have the capacity, did not make it. Even though it did not take much time, it can be done after school hours, by holding meetings, and planning students’ activities for the following day," she said. It would be better if the plan was set up together with the school principal as well as other elements.