By Dr.Marsigit,MA
Entering the third millennium in Indonesian, showed by an era of reform in all areas of life, which are difficult times as a result of the severe economic crisis. Phenomenon that emerged from a prolonged crisis shows the changes in various aspects of political life, economy, law and education.
Various reports indicate that the economic crisis has been very adversely affected the performance of our education; higher dropout rates, enrollment rates decline, and the ability of parents to participate to provide facilities and teaching resources (books) are also declining education reports from inside and outside the country is implicitly mentioned the failure of the Indonesian government in providing education. Indonesia ranks only 105 of 174 countries in terms of its human reserces, under Singapore (22), Brunei (25), Malaysia (56), while Indonesia was ranked only 37th of 59 countries in terms of Competitiveness, under Singapore (1), Malaysia (16), and Thailand (30) (Tilaar, 1999: page 183). If such cases are not allowed to continually impossible our education system slowly but surely, would be a system of duping the public.
Levin (1976) in Fullan (1992:17) states that there are at least 3 main factors of a reform can occur: (1) disaster factors, which may include natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, fires, famine, etc., (2) the influence of information technology, and (3) the conflicts that occur due to differences in interests between the components of society. The meaning of education reform involves two things: first, reforms in an effort to intensify the system and, secondly, the reform as an attempt to restructure.
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