| Teachers must elaborate their own curriculum |
 Jakarta, 31st July 2006: The 2006 applied education curriculum (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan=KTSP) offers more liberty for the teachers and the schools to elaborate their own curriculum. However, many schools are not completely ready to apply and accomplish this process as some schools still lack the teachers’ quality and readiness as well as the availability of school operational costs. “Along with the determination and decentralization of each autonomous area, this curriculum is supposedly good enough. In this curriculum, teachers are given the absolute freedom in explaining the curriculum and students are positioned as the subject,” claims Ahmad Rizali, an education expert in the Media Forum organized by Sampoerna Foundation (31/7). The Media Forum has the main objective of encouraging the media people to discuss current issues in the education sector. On this occasion, the discussion revolved around the new curriculum of 2006/2007 and whether the new curriculum is able to respond to the standardization of the students’ evaluation.” The important matter was that there was a tendency of a miss-match between the curriculum’s development and the students’ evaluation which will bring more confusion especially for the teachers. The KTSP’s philosophy is very much decentralized, but the passing grade is still centralized through the national examination (Ujian Nasional=UN). “It will create more confusion for the teachers who develop the curriculum. On one hand, teachers are given the freedom and responsibility to develop curriculum, but on the other hand, the measurement of success still relies heavily on the passing of the national examination (UN). This is one of reasons why teachers focus more on getting their students pass the national examination (UN)”, Rizali explains further. The head of the Primary Education Office for Jakarta (Dinas Pendidikan Dasar Provinsi DKI Jakarta), Sylviana Murni states that they are now striving to improve the teachers’ capacities in order to boost their competency in developing and applying the new curriculum to their students. “Currently we grant 500 undergraduate scholarships annually for the elementary and junior high schools’ teachers in Jakarta. We also support the various initiatives from all sectors in the society to improve the teachers’ quality, included Sampoerna Foundation’s plan in building its Teacher Institute.” Sylvi asserts that there are only 4.568 elementary schools’ teachers from the total of 23.938 teachers who hold undergraduate qualification. Moreover, junior high schools’ teachers who hold undergraduate qualification are only 3.530 from the total of 6.912 teachers.
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Due to the current obstacles, the head of the National Education Standardization Agency (Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan=BNSP) Bambang Suhendro states that they have created an example of the curriculum and syllabus for the elementary and junior high schools which will be the guidance for the schools and teachers. “KTSP will be conducted based on the national education standard (Standar Nasional Pendidikan =SNP). As a result, there will be a fixed standard for the national education related to passing grade competency, contents, study process, grading, study materials and infrastructure, costs as well as educational resources,” he asserts.
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