Lets post all news and discussions relating to education in Indonesia here.
I'll take the honor of posting the first news:

UI to use English as medium of instruction
The University of Indonesia (UI) is planning to use English as a medium of instruction beginning the 2005/06 academic year as part of an effort to boost its competitiveness in the globalized world, UI Rector Usman Chatib Warsa said.

"We feel we are not that competent in English now. So, to boost our presence in the global context we will make English a medium of instruction beginning in the 2005/6 academic year," Usman said during a ceremony to mark the university's 55th anniversary in Depok on Sunday.

According to UI spokeswoman Henny Widyadingsih, the preparations for the use of English as a medium of instruction started in 2002 when a number of the university's schools signed collaboration deals with several universities overseas for teaching staff exchange programs.

The overseas universities involved include Singapore's Nanyang University and several universities in Malaysia.

She also said that all UI lecturers would take English proficiency tests, followed by English courses.

The subjects to be taught in English would be determined by each school, with priority being given to subjects related to international affairs, such as the international communications course offered by the School of Communications.

The program would start to be rolled out in early 2006, the second semester of the 2005/6 academic year.

Usman also said the UI was planning to increase the salaries and allowances offered to lecturers and staff to improve overall quality of service.

"We are planning to increase staff salaries and provide more incentives for lecturers. Starting 2006, the university will strive to pay lecturers and professors salaries ranging from Rp 5 million to around Rp 10 million," he said.

The current salaries offered to lecturers and professors at UI range between Rp 2 million and Rp 3 million.

It is hoped that the planned salary and allowances increase will improve the attitudes and morale of staff and lecturers so that they will jettison the old, passive civil service style and become dynamic and active educational service providers, Usman said.

To ensure the success of the plan, the university had prepared a funding mechanism as part of its budget.

"One-third of the university's budget comes from student tuition fees, one third from research and the remaining one-third from the government subsidy," he said.

"However, the government, which is supposed to provide one-third of our budget, is only actually paying around one fifth of what we need. To cover the shortfall, we look for extra money by conducting research and building cooperation with the private sector."

According to Usman, high tax on donations hinders the private sectors from donating money to the university and other state-backed educational institutes.

"The high rate of tax makes them reluctant to donate to the university. Universities abroad rarely face this kind of problem," he said.

Usman said UI and other state universities were holding discussions with the Ministry of Finance with a view to finding a solution to the problem.

"We are also proposing the setting up of a research grant scheme as part of the effort to improve the competitiveness of our researchers," said Usman. (001)

According to Usman, high tax on donations hinders the private sectors from donating money to the university and other state-backed educational institutes.
Donation to non-profit institutions should be tax deductible. We should really study the way the States handle non-profit fund raising. Many private universities in the States main source of income does not come from the students or the government. Instead, they get their income from alumni and friends of the university donation and through research and consulting.

I agree entirely. The majority of American public (and much more private) universities rely on donations as the largest source of their funding. My university, for example, just finished a 3-year endowment drive that ended with $653 million raised.

which university is that, Yamauchi?

Oh, Yamauchi, on top of that ,I might as well ask you. I'm thinking of doing postgrad study - a Masters first, possibly considering PhD later - in economics, either in the US or UK. What's your take on the best universities there? specifically how do you think the LSE, NYU, Boston Univ. and Cambridge rate?

Oh, Yamauchi, on top of that ,I might as well ask you. I'm thinking of doing postgrad study - a Masters first, possibly considering PhD later - in economics, either in the US or UK. What's your take on the best universities there? specifically how do you think the LSE, NYU, Boston Univ. and Cambridge rate?
For economics (US): MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Berkeley, Stanford, Northwestern

Another thing I would like to see is the administration of schools being tougher on students caught fighting. It's rediculous to see students fighting among each other on the street. It's even more rediculous that many universities student fight among each other alos because they are from different faculty. There should be zero tolerance for this in the universities. If you are caught fighting on school grounds, you will be brought before the judiciary committee with the threat of expulsion.

If money is not an issue for you, I'd go with LSE. Why not Cambridge? From what I've heard, it is a lot like an old private school I used to attend. To be quite honest, it sucked. Wearing a strict uniform every day, being surrounded by pastey English, etc. The other ones I am not really that familiar with. I personally transferred out of that mess and now attend a public state university (KU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Of_Kansas)) because I just can't afford $25,000 a year.

However, if you think the things I described wouldn't bother you, I would try for Cambridge. It is essentially the best University in the world. As Ara stated, MIT has the best economics graduate school in the US. However, getting in is ridiculously difficult. The two choices you mentioned, NYU and Boston U, are both very good options.

However, if you think the things I described wouldn't bother you, I would try for Cambridge. It is essentially the best University in the world. As Ara stated, MIT has the best economics graduate school in the US. However, getting in is ridiculously difficult. The two choices you mentioned, NYU and Boston U, are both very good options.
Another thing, many top institutions does not offer master degree. Do your homework, many will give you a master while working on your PhD. However, they will not admit you in if you only go for your Master.

That's right, many don't.

Wow, you're in Kansas University. they got pretty good basketball team there.

If you want to learn about Asia pacific from american perspective, I suggest you to enter UH Honolulu. I was in Hpu back then but i learned about asian economic and politic study in my UH class.

cheers

Yeah, we've got a good basketball team. The current US ambassador to Indonesia graduated from KU, too. :) Maybe I can get some favors some time.

I had a good friend whom I grew up with that visited UH in Honolulu. He thought it was really cool, but life had other plans for him. I will look into it some time.

yes, I specifically mentioned those four universities because they're the only ones out of decent universities that offer a straight M.A. course , rather than making you commit to a PhD. But thanks for the comments, folks.

I saw a brief documentary about Cambridge on BBC(? - it could've been Discovery or something else)...yeah, it def looks like an old private boys school that I used to go to. The old victorian buildings etc. I don't know, I think I would prefer being in the middle of cosmopolitan London rather than a town like Cambridge - besides LSE has the best reputation for economics in Europe, right?

Brawl between STPDN students injures 11

Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung

Eleven youths were injured in a lunchtime brawl that erupted among Public Administration Institute (STPDN) students in Sumedang, West Java, on Tuesday.

A witness said the fight was sparked by a dispute between a second-year student, identified as Simon of Papua, and a fourth-year senior Hasyim Siregar of North Sumatra earlier that morning.

"Simon was caught in the act smuggling in a bottle of alcohol during a class. Hasyim warned him to dispose of the bottle and Simon punched Hasyim," the witness, who would not give his name, told The Jakarta Post.

News of the incident spread and more than 1,000 fourth-year students jeered Simon as he and other juniors, numbering about 3,000, began lunch in the campus dining room.

A food fight denegrated into a full-scale brawl as seniors began throwing plates and glasses at the juniors.

The panicked juniors smashed the dining room's glass front doors as they tried to leave building.

Dozens of lecturers intervened but could not could not stop the fight. They called the Jatinangor Police who broke up the melee.

Eleven students were treated at the campus for injuries ranging from minor cuts and bruises to more serious wounds, Sumedang Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yoyok Subagyo told the Post after visiting the clinic.

Officers had moved all the fourth-year students off of the campus to prevent further clashes and questioned dozens of students from various grades involved in the incident, Yoyok said.

Violence is not new to STPDN, a state technical college that produces the country's bureaucrats. The institute, which is notorious for imposing military-style discipline on its students, made the headlines in 2003 when SCTV television channel broadcast video footage of a junior student, Wahyu Hidayat, who was beaten to death by seniors.

The Sumedang District Court sentenced 10 STPDN students to between seven and 10 months' jail for the accidental killing of Wahyu.

Earlier in 2000, a junior STPDN student Erie Rakhman also died from beatings by his seniors. Seven students involved in that violence were also jailed.

After the 2003 killing, the government decided to move the institute to Jakarta, where it would share facilities with the Institute of Administrative Sciences.

However, the merger will only occur after the remaining students in the Sumedang campus graduate.

Wednesday March 2, 6:01 PM
INTERVIEW:Accenture:Indonesia's Outsourcing Outlook Dim

By Phelim Kyne
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Indonesia's aspirations to rival China and India as a global corporate services outsourcing destination are stymied by negative perceptions of the country's stability, an Accenture Ltd. (ACN) executive said recently.


Foreign-based corporations are reluctant to risk outsourcing parts of their operations to Indonesia, despite the potential cost advantages, because of the country's recent history of civil unrest and terrorism, said Utoyo S. Nurtanio, an associate partner at Accenture's Indonesian unit.

Bermuda-based Accenture is an international consulting and outsourcing firm.

The riots that struck the capital city of Jakarta in the turmoil prior to the fall of the country's dictator Soeharto in 1998, and the terrorist attacks on the tourist island of Bali in 2002 and against the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in late 2004 have made foreign corporations extremely leery about outsourcing to the country.

"When the (riots) in 1998 happened...basically business was (shut) down for almost two weeks (and) people didn't go to work because of security precautions," Nurtanio said. "For oil and gas companies (which commonly outsource operations), just a half-day system down could translate to millions of dollars."

Foreign corporate aversion to outsourcing to Indonesia means that Accenture reaps the lion's share of its revenue in the country from consulting, with around 20% derived from outsourcing services for Indonesia-based domestic and foreign firms.

Accenture's consulting clients in Indonesia include domestic automobile manufacturing giant Astra International (ASII.JK) and Swiss agrochemical firm Syngenta AG (SYT).

Indonesia's rocky road to parliamentary democracy since the downfall of Soeharto has also tarnished the country's allure as an outsourcing destination.

Indonesia's citizens have embraced their newfound freedoms of expression and assembly with relish, resulting in frequent public protests that exacerbate Jakarta's already notorious traffic jams.

The routine tumult, which hampers corporate productivity and competitiveness, has been accentuated by civil unrest in regions including Aceh and Ambon and the threat of terrorism linked to radical Islamic groups. Such groups have claimed responsibility for a string of deadly bomb attacks in Indonesia in recent years.

Those factors have fostered a non-business-friendly image that Indonesia will require years to shake off, Nurtanio said.

"It needs time for the security stability to be proven to gain back the confidence, so it's very hard to predict how long (that perception) will continue," he said.

Indonesia's relatively small pool of university graduates capable of performing outsourcing tasks, such as systems application development and maintenance, is another disadvantage the county suffers in comparison with China and India.

Successful outsourcing requires firms like Accenture to be able to rapidly expand the scale of their operations and the number of staff who run them, making a large population of technically proficient university graduates indispensable.

"We started in China in 2003 with only a hundred people and in two years we've scaled up to thousands (of employees), likewise in India," Nurtanio said. "(But) if you look at the educational system in Indonesia, the capacity to produce the required number of good quality university graduates...is relatively smaller."



thats why education is important!!!

UI adds economics to int'l class program

The Jakartapost
March 14, 2005

JAKARTA: The University of Indonesia (UI) opened a program for economic studies, which enables students to graduate with a degree from a particular university abroad as well as UI.

The introduction was made at the 2005 international class open house at UI campus in Salemba, Central Jakarta, on Sunday.

In the program, students will spend the first four semesters at UI and will continue the remaining four semesters at the university abroad.

The school of economics has established cooperation with the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne, both in Australia.

High school graduates have to achieve a TOEFL score of at least 500, or IELTS of five and have to pass a series of tests to enter the special program.

Students are required to pay US$1,000 for the admission fee and $2,500 per semester while studying the first two years at UI, while the fee at the extension university would be determined in accordance with the university's policy.

Since 2000, UI has opened international class programs for medicine, psychology, computer science, and engineering. The first batch of students graduated last year. -- JP

RI, U.S. universities strengthen ties
Theresia Sufa, Depok

More than 100 university leaders and professors from 80 higher education institutions in Indonesia and the United States met to discuss how they could strengthen ties and continue to build relations between their respective organizations in a forum that ended on Friday.

The two-day forum, called "Indonesia-USA Bilateral Forum on Higher Education Partnerships: Future Directions," was held at the University of Indonesia's (UI) campus in Depok and hosted by the Ministry of Education's Directorate General of Higher Education.

During the forum, participants discussed successful models of existing Indonesian-international cooperative programs, opportunities for and constraints to cooperation and ongoing initiatives such as the Nusantara International Scholarship, which aims to support 400 Indonesians annually to study for PhDs in the United States.

UI rector Usman Chatib Warsa, who chaired the forum's organizing committee, said most of the funding for the scholarships, estimated at $25 million annually, would not come from the Indonesian government.

"We all know the government doesn't have enough money for that," said Usman. "That's why individual partnerships between universities are essential, especially now that (Indonesian) universities are independent."

He added that the forum hoped to establish a consortium of international donors, possibly from Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States, to finance the project, which aims to increase the number of top-notch scholars in Indonesia. It is estimated that out of around 220 million people in Indonesia, currently less than 7,500 hold PhDs.

The project was first proposed during last year's inaugural forum, held in Washington DC, by Prof. Karl Jackson of the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.

Throughout the forum, discussions between individual universities also took place on the possibility of implementing concrete academic cooperation in the near future, possibly by establishing joint-degree programs, where a student could obtain U.S. and Indonesian degrees simultaneously.

The forum also sought to establish closer relations between researchers in Indonesia and the United States as part of efforts to increase mutual understanding between the two countries.

Specific attention was also given to formulating concrete assistance for higher education institutions in tsunami-torn Aceh, which was represented by the University of Syah Kuala.

The forum, which was also sponsored by the United States Indonesia Society and the Indonesian Embassy in the United States, was attended by representatives of about 50 universities from all over Indonesia and 30 from the United States.

U.S. universities participating included, among others, the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Hawaii, the University of Cincinnati and the East-West Center.

guys, need your advice, suggestions, and perspectives. I've been accepted in the economics graduate programmes at Boston University, London School of Economics & Pol Science (LSE) and Cambridge. Still waiting for a reply from NYU. if you were me, which would you choose and why?

Dang, lucky you. Congratulations! I wish I could give you some advice, but they're all great choices.

While we're on the subject of asking questions, would any of you in Indonesia recommend I learn Chinese? I've seen that some of the investment-type jobs require that. I know English and Korean, and I'm learning Indonesian and starting to look into Mandarin. It seems like it would make me more competitive in the work force but I'm not sure. Just a thought.

I am not currently in Indonesia, but I can say this: Go learn chinese. Still an investment.

Even here in Oz it is getting important.

I can't possibly overstate how important Chinese is...its a rapidly growing market and a superpower in the making! I spent half a year in China learning Mandarin...it was one of the best decisions I've made in my education so far.

Yep, that sounds awesome.

Tell us Alvin, out of the schools you've been accepted to what are your thoughts? Which one are you thinking about the most?

LSE sounds great, being the top economics school in Europe and its location in downtown London. My only concern is that its programme duration is 2 years - had I done an economics major at the undergrad lv, I would have applied for the 1 yr programme.

Boston is great too. Had a couple of friends who went to Boston U on exchange, said it was great... but i guess it lacks LSE's 'big name' in economics. Also, the programme only goes for 2 semesters which means I can finish it in less than a year! a big bonus!

NYU would be a nice compromise between LSE and Boston. The programme runs for 3 semesters (1.5 yr) and according to a ranking list I found online, it ranks higher than LSE for its economics programme (#11 compared to #16). Another plus - its location in New York City...the financial center of the world...IMF, World Bank headquarters are located here (correct me if I'm wrong) + wall street, and all the multinationals...

Cambridge is probably last on my list. It seems old fashioned and too traditional. just not cutting edge..at least that's my impression.

So in conclusion, my preference list would go like this:
1. LSE or NYU
3. Boston
4. Cambridge

I agree with your assessments. If it were up to me, I'd go to Boston University. It sounds like a cool place and being done in 2 semesters would just be awesome. It's only a few hours from NYU too. On the other hand, both NYU and LSE are good, except the 2 year program at LSE seems a bit long. You'll just have to look at all the options. Good luck on making the decision and congratulations for being accepted to such top notch schools.

thanks mate ;) Never thought deciding schools could be so difficult. Anyway, I emailed LSE and asked them if it is possible that I be transferred to the 1 year programme. If they let me, LSE will prolly be my top choice. If not, would prolly go for NYU or Boston. cheers :D

Btw, for economics grads, do you think there are more opportunities for Asia-related jobs in the US or Europe? I would love to be involved in , say, the World Bank/IMF Asia Pacific division...

At this point in time probably Europe, but the potential is going to be in the US. Europe has such a high number of college graduates and anemic economic growth that it can be a bleak situation for a lot of people with degrees, and to be honest in a lot of the institutions in Europe there is a taint of racism. On the other hand, there are always going to be more and more rich Europeans looking for ways to get involved with Asia.

The US has been slow in catching Asian fever, but there is and will continue to be a surge in growth in fields related South/East/Southeast Asia. The World Bank and the IMF are both headquartered in the USA (Washington DC) and they hire heavily from US universities. Most major international economic institutions are under firm US-Japan control, whereas the major European countries like Germany are having to increasingly worry about their domestic issues. Germany's unemployment for example is 13%.

So, I'd say in the future there are going to be a lot more Asia-related economic jobs in the US. That's just my opinion, though. Maybe people in Europe know better.

thanks for the input man :)
Oh, one more thing of note...the World bank president-elect, Paul Wolfowitz...is a former US ambassador in Indonesia. he speaks Indonesian and recently visited Jakarta and met with the President etc. Apparently he was instrumental in making the US decide to resume military links. I wonder if his appointment will have a positive affect for Indonesia? more loans maybe? :D

Wolfowitz is one of the most powerful men in Washington. He has orchestrated and planned the invasion of Iraq since 1992, and he was the founder of Project for the New American Century (http://www.newamericancentury.org/). Indonesians probably just know him as their former ambassador, but actually he promotes a massive American empire through proxy-state regimes (successfully carried out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, Lebanon, and now Kyrgyzstan) as well as Taiwan independence and US military intervention in the Taiwan strait. :laugh: So he's not a little lamb, but depending on what your political stance is he is either really evil or really smart.

I'm not sure what he could do as head of the World Bank for Indonesia. Encourage investment and soft loans maybe?

hmm, interesting...

Indonesia Rights Groups Decry Wolfowitz
1 hour, 2 minutes ago World - AP Asia


By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Paul Wolfowitz' candidacy for World Bank (news - web sites) president has triggered criticism from rights activists in Indonesia, where he served as U.S. ambassador during Suharto (news - web sites)'s dictatorship but never spoke out publicly against the regime's violent abuses or endemic corruption.



Wolfowitz, currently the deputy defense secretary and the man considered the key architect of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), has been nominated by President Bush (news - web sites) to succeed the outgoing bank president, James Wolfensohn.


International organizations and Third World countries — the main recipients of World Bank loans — are questioning his qualifications and commitment to international development.


Analysts in Indonesia, where Wolfowitz served as ambassador during the military-backed government of former President Suharto from 1986 to 1989, say the candidate has a poor track record in other areas crucial to the World Bank, such as fighting graft and respect for human rights.


"Of all former U.S. ambassadors, he was considered closest to and most influential with Suharto and his family," said Abdul Hakim Garuda Nusantara, head of the state-sponsored National Human Rights Commission.


"But he never showed interest in issues regarding democratization or respect of human rights," said Hakim, who at the time headed the Legal Aid Institute that defended dissidents and sought to free political prisoners. "Wolfowitz never once visited our offices."


"I also never heard him publicly mention corruption, not once," Hakim said.


At the time, thousands of leftists detained after the 1965 U.S.-backed military coup that brought Suharto to power were still languishing in jail without trial. And tens of thousands of people in East Timor (news - web sites) — a country Suharto's troops occupied in 1975 — died during the 1980s in a series of army anti-insurgency offensives.


During his 32-year reign, Suharto, his family and his military and business cronies transformed Indonesia into one of the most graft-ridden countries in the world, plundering an estimated $30 billion.


After being ousted in 1998 by pro-democracy protests, Suharto was charged in 2000 with personally embezzling $600 million. The charges were dropped when judges ruled he was too ill to go to trial.


Still, Wolfowitz had publicly lauded the dictator, praising his "strong and remarkable leadership" in testimony on Indonesia before the House Foreign Operations Appropriation Subcommittee in 1997.


Wolfowitz "never alluded to any concerns about the level of corruption or the need for more transparency," said Binny Buchori, director of the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development — a coalition of 100 agencies promoting democracy in Indonesia.


"He was an effective diplomat, but he gave no moral support for dissidents," she said. "He went to East Timor and saw abuses going on, but then kept quiet."


Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a former foreign policy adviser to B.J. Habibie, Suharto's successor as head of state, also agreed that Wolfowitz was a competent and popular envoy.


"He was extremely able and very much admired and well-liked on a personal level ... but he never intervened to push human rights or stand up to corruption," she said.


"At the time, Washington didn't care too much about human rights and democracy; it was still the Cold War and they were only concerned about fighting communism."

Congratulation Alvin! I wish you the best of luck. Anyway, if i were you, boston and NYU will be on top of my list. I just agree with what yamauchi said that many affiliates that you mentioned like worldbank or IMF will most probably hire graduates from U.S universities.

Anyway, can you get OPT from any american university for master program? just like Bachelor degree?

cheers

Thanks David :)
You might think this is a stupid question, but what is OPT??

Another Wolfowitz mission
In announcing his nomination of the incumbent Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the next World Bank president, U.S. President George W. Bush described his hawkish inner-circle person as "a compassionate and decent man," and emphasized Wolfowitz's experience as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia from 1986 to 1989.

Wolfowitz -- one of the architects of the Iraq invasion and the U.S. "war on terrorism" -- will become the bank's most controversial president since the appointment of cantankerous former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara to the post in 1967.

Amid strong opposition from other countries and global activists to Wolfowitz's promotion, many people may wonder, why did Bush specifically mentioned his experience in Indonesia when attempting to convince the international community to accept his close aide as president of the global bank?

There are several factors at work here, including the fact that Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim nation, as well as being the world's fourth most populous country. Bush has in the past praised Indonesia as being a model for predominantly Muslim nations by demonstrating that an advanced democracy does not need to be incompatible with Islam.

Another factor is that Indonesia is among the largest borrower from this development bank. The World Bank-led Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) is the largest money lender group for Indonesia and has a strong influence on the nation.

The 61-year old Wolfowitz, who received master's and doctorate degrees in political science and economics from Chicago University, is also expected to -- in the words of a The Washington Post's editorial -- "promote some democratic virtues -- openness, accountability and other anti-corruption measures" -- that underpin economic development.

Bush seemingly wants his confidante to boost the bank's poverty-alleviation programs because poverty and injustice are widely regarded as being the roots of terrorism. As the biggest shareholder in the bank, the U.S. administration can pursue its global strategy through economic means.

If the strategy works in Indonesia, then the country can be held up yet again as a model for alleviating terrorism.

A few weeks before his summit with President Soeharto in Bali in 1986, President Ronald Reagan presented a big oleh-oleh (gift) to his host by announcing the appointment of senior diplomat Wolfowitz as ambassador to Indonesia. In his own words, Wolfowitz has said that he served as an ambassador in Indonesia "where economic development was the most important issue on the agenda."

As an envoy here, he was the first foreign official to bluntly tell Soeharto to allow more political openness at a time when the president was being very tough in opposing democratization. Wolfowitz made the appeal in his farewell speech in 1989, provoking controversy and even anger among some of Soeharto's inner-circle.

The American diplomat is still remembered here as probably the most successful and popular American envoy ever to be appointed to Jakarta. And despite his hawkish stance as Bush's top aide, many Indonesians still regard him as a friend, although they may express some disappointment with his hard-line attitudes.

As the World Bank's biggest shareholder, it is highly unlikely that other global shareholders would veto the U.S. candidate.

As a friend of Indonesia, it is natural to expect that Wolfowitz will assist the country in becoming more prosperous and with better governance. Indonesia will continue to closely work with the World Bank and its development programs. Therefore, by having a friend in this institution Indonesia can expect that he will be able to assist us in combating our biggest enemies: poverty and corruption. Of course, the bank itself must first respond to worldwide criticism over its performance.

As he will be taking up the position in June, we can only hope that Wolfowitz will start adjusting himself to a totally new environment.

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Haha, thats not a stupid question Alvin, it just i forgot to explain what it is. OPT is optional practical training, where after you finished a degree, you can work for over a year in a company or business that is suitable with your major.

Yama is it possible to take OPT for master degree? I think Alvin would be very happy if he can get OPT too.

cheers

China wins 7, Indonesia 4 golds in Asian Physics Olympiad

www.chinaview.cn 2005-05-02 12:32:36

JAKARTA, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Host team Indonesia won four of the 14 gold medals on offer in the sixth Asian Physics Olympiad (APHO) in the Sumatra province of Riau, with China finishing top with seven gold medals, a local newspaper reported Monday.

Two other gold medals went to Thailand while Chinese Taipei wonone gold medal, reported The Jakarta Post.

The overall title in the competition was won by Chinese studentFang Li, while the best in the theory category was won by Lin Yi Hsun and best in experimentation to Lin Han Hsuan, both from Chinese Taipei.

The test subjects were prepared by a team comprised of scientists from local universities -- the University of Indonesia,Gadjah Mada University and the Bandung Institute of Technology.

Minister of National Education Bambang Sudibyo said he hoped the Olympiad's winners would play a significant role in developingtechnology and science, especially in Asia.

The Olympiad, which was opened by Vice President Jusuf Kalla onApril 26, had 118 participants from 18 countries and regions. Enditem

Good news. China has always been the top country. I suppose India does not participate this year.

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What do you think?

Private universities wary of foreign competitors
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Private universities in the country called on the government on Monday not to allow the operation of foreign universities here, citing their unreadiness to face competition.

"The presence of foreign universities, thanks to their better facilities and manpower, would attract local students. It will threaten the existence of local private universities," head of the Association of Private Universities Management (ABPPTS) Thomas Suyatno said after a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla.

Thomas said that during the meeting the association urged the government to ban full foreign investment in higher education here until local private universities improved their facilities and human resources.

However, the association suggested that the government allow foreign universities to open branches here in cooperation with local universities.

"Please, do not open the door too wide. Do it in stages until local universities are ready," Thomas said.

According to Thomas, local universities were facing difficulties in raising their standards due to government policies that do not favor private universities.

Citing one example, he said the government did not provide a special discount for property tax imposed on private universities and for income tax imposed on their lecturers.

"The government imposes income tax on scholarships obtained by our lecturers to continue their studies abroad. The government even imposes the same tax on their research funds," said Thomas of the Jakarta-based Atmajaya Catholic University.

The government also requires private universities to pay property tax, equivalent to the amount imposed on profit-oriented enterprises, he said.

"How do you think we can improve our quality under such conditions?" said Thomas, who is also a former legislator.

The association groups 357 local private universities across the country.

There are over 2,000 higher education institutions in Indonesia.

There has been a clear increase in the number of foreign universities opening branches in the country, following the government's decision to liberalize the education sector in Indonesia in 2002.

Chinese language contest held in Indonesia

www.chinaview.cn 2005-05-16 13:13:14


JAKARTA, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The University of Indonesia (UI) here has held the 9th Chinese Language Competition for basic and advanced levels involving students of the Chinese Literature discipline from various universities, The Jakarta Post reported Monday.

Besides competitions for all levels of Chinese language, the events over the weekend also included speech, storytelling, and karaoke competitions.

"The language competition participants came from the universities that we invited. But for speech, storytelling and karaoke, we only set a quota of 15 participants for each competition. But more than 20 registered for each competition," Etsy Tia Kartika, spokesperson of the organizing committee, was quoted as saying.

Iwan Lee, one of the jurors at the competition, said that this was heartening because it showed how Mandarin has become popular in the country.

"Chinese has become the second most popular language after English in the world. The fact that many students are mastering the language proves that this trend has also infected Indonesia," he said. Enditem

This news confirming what Alvin and Sanhen commented on learning Chinese

Tata

More Indonesian students choose to study in China's universities
Remmy Faizal, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The number of Indonesians studying in China stood at 3,750 in 2004, with the majority of them taking language courses.

"The number represents an increase of between 30 and 40 percent from the year before," marketing director of the Universal Language Program Sudjadi Sudjianto said during a one-day Chinese education exhibition here on Sunday.

Wealthy Indonesians students will often continue their studies in Australia, North America or Europe.

Sudjadi said that it was high time for Indonesians to look at what Chinese schools had to offer.

Indonesia, according to Sudjadi, has the fifth largest number of students studying in China behind South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Vietnam.

According to Sudjadi, the cost of studying in China is relatively cheaper than other countries. Costs of tuition, board and lodging plus plane tickets range between US$6,000 and $8,000 a year.

The exhibition, the fourth of its kind, was opened by Zhou Bin, the cultural attache at the Peoples Republic of China's embassy in Jakarta. Aside from introducing the Chinese education system and helping Indonesians study in China, the exhibition also aims to enhance cooperation between the two countries especially in the education sector.

Also attending the exhibition was deputy director general of the Chinese Service Center of Scholarly Exchange from the Chinese Ministry of Education, LI Guiling.

LI said that the world's interest in Chinese education was continuing to increase.

"The fact is that whenever university graduates from China choose to continue their studies abroad, they usually get high credits. Also, when they compete in any sort of mathematics or physics Olympiad, they tend to finish in the high ranks. That is the barometer," she said.

LI then explained that those kind of achievements attract people from around the world to get their education in China.

A visitor to the exhibition, Nanang Hermansyah, vice principal of Al Izhar Senior High School, said he was curious about Chinese education.

"Generally alumnus from our school would continue their studies in other countries, including Australia or the United States, but recently two went to China to study and that made me curious," he explained.

Dual Degree Program: Another option for a world-class education
Debbie A. Lubis, Contributor, Jakarta

Studying overseas remains the best way for high-school graduates to further their studies and get world-class education.

However, the increase in the number of universities applying international standards to their educational programs gives high school graduates more affordable options.

A number of private universities -- Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), the Swiss German University (SGU) and the Gandhi Institute of Business and Technology (GIBT) -- have for years run their programs in line with international standards.

UPH offers undergraduate and post-graduate programs in cooperation with prestigious universities from several countries including Japan, the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

GIBT offers international standards in its bachelor business, IT and marketing communication programs in cooperation with Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Australia.

Besides using English as the language of instruction, such "national-plus" universities have hired international teachers as part of their partnership with overseas universities.

Acquiring degrees from world-class educational institutes without leaving Indonesia is also possible, with several educational institutions offering dual degree programs.

University Indonesia (UI), one the most prestigious state universities in the country, offers international classes for its undergraduate programs in medicine, economics, engineering and psychology in cooperation with prestigious universities from Australia such as the University of Queensland, Monash University and the University of Melbourne.

In addition, UI also offers a post-graduate program on economics and infrastructure management in collaboration with the Australian National University.

Through the double-degree program, students can receive certificates from a local university along with those from partner universities abroad. The students can also experience the academic rigor of these foreign universities for a particular time.

The International Undergraduate Program (IUP) at Bina Nusantara University (UBiNus), for example, offers dual degree programs in accounting, computer science, information systems, and marketing, in cooperation with Curtin University of Technology and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

The students are entitled to receive two certificates, one from UBiNus and another from its overseas partners. Using a nationally and internationally accredited curriculum, the program applies "3+1" learning mechanism. The students are required to spend three years of studying at IUP UbiNus in Jakarta and a year in one of the partner universities in Australia.

"We see an increasing demand every year since we opened the program in 2001 for computer science ... However, due to high requirements and limited subjects, we cannot admit all prospective students," IUP program director Abi Jabar said. Five-hundred students have joined this dual degree program since it began, he said.

All the materials, presentation and lectures at IUP programs are delivered in English. Therefore, the prospective students are required to have TOEFL score above 550 or IELTS of a minimum 6.5, and TWE score above 3.5. Those who have a TOEFL score above 500 but below 550 are offered to join the pre-university English course for a 20-day period -- 100 hours at five hours a day.

The students who pass the admission test with a grade one-certification then pay Rp 49 million for the first year of study while those with grade two pay Rp 55.5 million.

For the subsequent years, the fees vary based on the chosen major and exclude fees for the partner university. In general, the students should expect to pay Rp 27.5 million a year.

Universitas Tarumanegara offers a dual degree for MM-MBA (Magister Manajemen-Master's of Business Administration) program. The program that lasts about 18 months does not require students to study in Australia. Using an Australian curriculum, all lectures in the program are delivered in English and half of the lecturers come from Australia.

Students who have taken 12 subjects are entitled to MBA degree from the University of Western Australia and if they complete a thesis, they will receive MM degree from Tarumanegara University.

Those who have completed four subjects then have the option of continuing their studies in partner universities in Australia, Singapore, Manila and Shanghai.

The university also has business links that can channel its professional alumni to reputable companies. "We are very selective in choosing the candidates, therefore not all prospective students who join the admission test are accepted," said Agus Wahyono, head of academic affairs at the MM-MBA program of University of Tarumanegara.

About 150 people have joined in the program since it was established in 2000, with about 25 percent of them expatriates.

The program opens new classes every three months and provides "sit-in" schedules for three or five prospective students. One class can only sit 30 students. Eligible students should have a minimum TOEFL score of 570 or IELTS score 6.5 and two years of work experience.

The Swiss German University, located in Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), Banten, also offers dual degree programs. It offers undergraduate courses on Mechatronics (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Information Technology), Information Technology (General IT and Business IT, Multi Media/Inter Media), Business Administration (Banking/Insurance/Auditing), Hotel and Tourism Management and Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical Engineering, Food Technology and Biomedical Engineering). The last faculty was opened just last year.

In cooperation with Technischen Universitaet Ilmenau in Germany, SGU also offers master's degree programs in business administration, business engineering, business informatics and PhD programs.

The university was established in 2000 as a joint effort between Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Indonesia. All courses at SGU are delivered in English.

The tuition fee per academic semester (semesters one, two, four, five, seven, and eight) is Rp 22 million while the fee during the internship semesters (semesters three and six) is Rp 11 million. Starting this year, scholarships are available for new students with outstanding final exam results, who will be charged only half of the price.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS!

Free Education For Poor Students In Indonesia From July

By Mohd Nasir Yusof

JAKARTA, June 18 (Bernama) -- Indonesia will introduce free education for primary and lower secondary students from poor families beginning the 2005 new academic year starting next month in an effort to ensure that all children go through a minimum of nine years of schooling.

Students from well-to-do families, meanwhile, will have their burgeoning school fees reduced following a national budget of Rp6.27 trillion (about RM2.5 billion) being allocated for the nine-year free compulsory education to benefit almost 40 million students nationwide.

The free education, announced by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a function in Wonigiri, Central Java yesterday, was very much welcomed by many parents, who saw the move as the first concrete action by Susilo towards a better Indonesia since he took office in October last year.

Harry Suryawan, a parent of two primary school students, said today that free education was long overdue as it should have been provided by the earlier governments, just like what has long been provided by governments of neighbouring countries.

"It's one very good news for us Indonesians after all the earthquakes and tsunamis, the never-ending corruption cases, the thousands of malnourished children and one disaster after another," he told Bernama, saying he hoped that the budget allocated by the government for all schools would be well managed without any corruption.

In an immediate response to Susilo's announcement, the Director General of Indonesian Ministry of Education for primary and secondary education, Indra Jati Sidi, said the ministry was still finalising the details on mechanisms and guidelines on the use of the fund, which would be channelled starting in mid- August at the earliest.

He was quoted by "The Jakarta Post" daily as saying the free education policy would be sustained into the future and would be incorporated into the state education budget that was expected to amount to Rp11.75 trillion (about RM4.65 billion).

He said funds would be allocated to public, private and Islamic schools nationwide in the form of block grants to cover their operational costs as well as direct subsidies for students with each school receiving Rp235,000 (about RM93) per student per year for primary schools and Rp324,500 (about RM128) per student per year for lower secondary schools.

"The amount should cover enrolment fees, books, maintenance, examination fees and honorariums for teachers," Minister of National Education Bambang Sudibyo said, adding that students from poor families would also receive a transportation subsidy.

Several other parents contacted for comments also welcomed the government's intention but would rather "wait and see" how the implementation of the programme could be successfully carried out smoothly.

"I don't want to expect too much but certainly welcome it. The free fee alone is more than good enough for me and my four schooling children," said a single mother, Annisa, who earns a living selling noodles at a roadside stall.

-- BERNAMA

I personally think high school should also be included in this program. Our university graduated is pathetically low for us to compete properly in the world.

A program I would love to see is the implementation of loans toward students in the university. Either have it through Islamic bank (no interest) or very low interest. in each case, the student should be able to pay back the loans two to three years after they graduate or when they leave school. Any program like this already existed?

I would also love to see more public funding toward the arts.

What I want to see also is donation to uni for research is tax deductible. Our unis barely invent anything. They DO have the capability though. But no monehhhh.

What I want to see also is donation to uni for research is tax deductible. Our unis barely invent anything. They DO have the capability though. But no monehhhh.

I agree whole heartedly. I would even go as far as saying that buying school supplies should also be tax free.

RI, Singapore forge cooperation on education

SINGAPORE (Antara): Indonesian Minister of National Education Bambang Sudibyo and his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam signed an education cooperation agreement on Friday.

The signing of the agreement, which covers education from junior high school right up to university, was attended by Indonesian Minister of Trade Mari E. Pangestu and Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore Moch Slamet Hidayat.

Bambang said that this sort of collaboration was badly needed at the present time as the Indonesian education sector was facing a host of complex problems.

"Singapore has overcome all the problems currently being faced by Indonesia," Bambang said.

The cooperation agreement included the establishment of 15 sister schools in the two countries and the provision of teacher training courses, especially English for Indonesian teachers.

Under the agreement, three Singaporean universities -- University of Singapore, Nanyang Technical University and the Singapore Management University -- were appointed to strengthen ties with a number of universities in Indonesia.

Shanmugaratnam expressed confidence that the cooperation agreement would be successful as both countries were serious about its implementation.

"During the first stage, State Senior High School No. 1 in Padang will take part for the first time in the Singapore Youth Festival in July 2005," he said. (**)

Sad...


RI gets poor mark in education quality

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A number of Indonesian students have stolen the limelight in international scientific contests, but in general the country's standard of public education has failed to match that of its neighbors in the Asia-Pacific region.

The latest report released by the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education and the Global Campaign for Education ranked Indonesia 10th among the 14 assessed countries in Asia and the Pacific, with an average score of 42 out of a possible 100, or an E on its commitment to basic education.

Leading the list were Thailand and Malaysia, which both received an A, followed by Sri Lanka with a B.

The Philippines, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia and India were marked between C and F for performing poorly in ensuring access to free and equal, good quality basic education.

Indonesia only performed better than Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Pakistan.

The report divided the countries into "class leaders" and "poor performers", using indicators such as access to full basic education, state action for free education, quality input, gender equality and overall equity.

Indonesia received the lowest mark for state action concerning its commitment to eliminating fees for basic education. This indicator measures the prevalence of school fees, textbooks, uniforms and other related expenses, based on a World Bank 2004 survey of 76 countries.

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh top the list as they managed to scrap most of the fees imposed on students.

A recent survey on poor families conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) revealed that in Indonesia, an elementary student would need Rp 374,225 (US$39) annually to pay all the fees. A junior high school student would need almost three times that amount.

The Indonesian government has estimated the annual cost of educating an elementary student at Rp 235,000 and Rp 324,500 for a junior high school student, which is built into the state budget for free compulsory education, to be disbursed in the coming academic year.

When it comes to provision of full basic education, which was indicated by drop-out, illiteracy and early childhood education rates, Indonesia scored C.

According to a 2003 national survey, 6.7 percent of 40 million school-age children (seven to 15 years old) dropped out of school, while 1.7 percent of the population had never attended school. Some 67.6 percent of drop-outs said they quit school because their parents could not afford to pay their school fees.

Indonesia received a good rating in access to basic education, but saw a low quality input as indicated by a low teacher-student ratio of 1:62 and an average of $21 per pupil the government allocated annually.

In comparison, Malaysia's teacher-student ratio stood at 1:20 with an average of $390 allocated to fund a student's education per year.

Indonesia performed better in gender equality and overall equity in education, with a score of 76 and 67 respectively. Education and gender activist Yanti Muchtar said, however, the marks did not reflect the true condition as they were based on incomplete data.

"There have been more girls quitting school than boys, plus two thirds of those who are illiterate are women," she said.

Other activists said the grade given to Indonesia's basic education development assessment was "too generous", while government officials deemed it "too gloomy".

"Susilo must seriously tackle the issue of public education which in fact is not free and is heading to privatization and commercialization. He must work hard to translate into practice the legal guarantee for free public education," Yanti said.

Heh. Not surprised. Many public school teacher are low quality.

One thing that I remmembered from my time in SD and SMP is the fact that I didn't pick up a good analytical skills. All we did was memorized, memorized, memorized. There was no discussion and you can't debate with the teacher. Of course, this was more than 10 years ago so I don't how it is now.

the MEMORIZING thing is still EXIST now!
i just graduated last year, so i know exactly how the students are suffering with the education. lucily for me i moved to national plus school which has very diffrent education system. i learn a lot in high school especially discussion and debate which is not common among student. in here i can learn those things PLUS i don't cheat and memorizing things again because 99% here is understanding. this situation is very diffrent from my old school. they were always push student to memorize-memorize-memorize. the one who got more brain capacity to memorize is the PINTER one. one more thing! DON'T EVEN DARE TO DEBATE WITH TEACHER because everything that your teacher said IS END OF DISCUSSION. if you dare you will get bad mark PLUS "dicap anak nakal" "tukang ngebantah" and the teacher will get personal with you.

The more they change, the more they stay the same.

Mandarin language courses becoming more and more popular
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Sabtu, 23 Juli 2005




Kursus Mandarin Kian Diminati


Oleh: IWAN SANTOSA

Tiga dekade lebih orang Indonesia kehilangan kesempatan untuk mampu berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Mandarin akibat pergolakan politik antikomunis yang diarahkan penguasa menjadi anti-Tionghoa dan kebudayaannya. Padahal, masyarakat jiran kita di Malaysia dan Singapura rata-rata mampu menguasai dua atau tiga bahasa.

Kini belajar bahasa Mandarin menjadi tren baru dalam enam tahun terakhir di kota-kota besar di Indonesia selepas tumbangnya Orde Baru. Penguasaan bahasa Mandarin bukan sekadar euforia orang Tionghoa, tetapi menjadi salah satu sarana memperkaya kemampuan intelektual terutama menyikapi perkembangan pesat ekonomi Tiongkok dan globalisasi.

Nyonya Netty, misalnya, mendorong putrinya, Ellen (2), untuk mengikuti kursus bahasa Mandarin sejak dini di tempat kursus Universal Language Program (ULP) di Pluit. Meski belum bisa membaca dan menulis, Ellen sudah dibiasakan untuk berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Mandarin.

”Saya mau dia belajar sejak kecil. Kemampuan bahasa Mandarin kan semakin dibutuhkan. Saya sendiri tidak bisa berbicara dan hanya menguasai Mandarin secara pasif, sedikit saja,” kata Ny Netty.

Di dalam ruang kelas di lantai dua terlihat poster-poster bergambar tentang benda-benda dan sebutannya dalam huruf Han Zi serta ejaan Han Yu Pin Yin (latinisasi huruf Mandarin). Beberapa bocah baru saja menyelesaikan kursus bersama Ellen.

Di lantai dasar seorang bocah cilik berwajah lucu seperti teman Bobo Ho sedang menunggu jemputan. Setelah disapa ”Ni hao (apa kabar—Red)”, dijawabnya ramah dengan sapaan sama. Ditanya ”Ni jiao shen me ming zi (siapa namamu—Red)”, dengan sigap dijawab: ”Henderson.” Ditanya lebih jauh, ”Ni ji shui (umurmu berapa—Red)”, dia menjawab, ”Qi (tujuh—Red)”.

Sedangkan di bilangan Casablanca di tempat kursus Wen Hua menjadi tempat para profesional belajar bahasa Mandarin. Marketing Manager Wen Hua Della Widyanto menjelaskan, sebagian besar murid Wen Hua adalah pekerja pelbagai perusahaan dan BUMN di kawasan Kuningan.

”Hanya sedikit yang Tionghoa. Sebagian besar murid di sini orang Jawa dan Batak. Ada juga peneliti orang Aceh atau pun warga ekspatriat di Jakarta. Kami juga mengadakan in house training di perusahaan dan juga kedutaan besar. Saat ini kelas Mandarin sedang diadakan di Kedutaan Besar Australia,” kata Della.

Murid-murid tersebut berusaha menguasai bahasa ketiga setelah bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Inggris. Untuk memberi pelajaran terbaik didatangkan pula guru penutur asli dari Tiongkok. Wen Hua, misalnya, memiliki 15 guru tetap dan paruh waktu yang penutur asli dan di ULP juga memiliki 20 guru campuran penutur asli dan lokal.

Kebanyakan mereka datang dari Tiongkok utara, yakni Beijing dan sekitarnya. Itu dimaksudkan untuk memudahkan penguasaan Mandarin dengan lafal yang baik dan benar. Pasalnya, sebagian besar percakapan bahasa Mandarin di Asia Tenggara dibawa oleh orang Tiongkok selatan yang memiliki lafal sedikit berbeda. Padahal, bahasa Mandarin yang baik dan benar secara umum menggunakan lafal Beijing (Jin Pin—Red).

Di selatan Jakarta tepatnya di Kota Bogor juga ditemukan kegairahan serupa. Li Hao Tong, seorang guru penutur asli di lembaga kursus Han Lin, menjelaskan, para murid di situ sangat bersemangat belajar bahasa Mandarin.

”Muridnya campur ada orang Tionghoa dan ada juga orang Sunda atau suku lain. Mereka belajar lengkap dari percakapan hingga baca tulis,” kata guru yang kini sudah fasih berbahasa Indonesia itu.

Dua orang muridnya, Susan dan Isye, yang sudah beberapa bulan mengikuti kursus ternyata sudah lumayan mampu berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Mandarin saat diajak berbicara Kompas. Namun, seperti kebanyakan orang Indonesia, mereka umumnya bersifat pasif, yakni mampu memahami tetapi sulit untuk berkata-kata.

Belajar bertata krama

Keberanian dan suasana menyenangkan adalah kunci untuk mempelajari bahasa Mandarin. Terlepas stigmatisasi Orde Baru terhadap segala sesuatu yang berbau Tionghoa, opini publik tentang sulitnya belajar bahasa Mandarin sudah mengakar.

Manager ULP Sudjadi Sudjianto menjelaskan, pelajaran bahasa Mandarin dikemas sedemikian rupa hingga memudahkan murid dan membuat orang tertarik untuk terus belajar. Tidak hanya mempelajari bahasa, tetapi etik dan tata krama diselipkan dalam pelajaran.

”Li mao yong yu,” kata Sudjadi menjelaskan pelajaran percakapan yang menekankan pada tata-krama. Sejak dasar hingga dewasa semua mendapat pelajaran percakapan yang didasari pada sopan-santun dan etika tanpa disadari.

Perlahan tapi pasti jumlah peminat untuk mempelajari Mandarin pun meningkat. Sudjadi mengklaim pihaknya saat ini mengajarkan bahasa Mandarin untuk sekitar 3.500 siswa sekolah menengah di Jakarta.

Seiring pertambahan minat, jumlah lembaga kursus resmi seperti di Jakarta Utara meningkat dari belasan menjadi tiga puluh sembilan lembaga pada dalam tiga tahun terakhir.

Kursus pun tidak berhenti sebatas kursus, banyak juga dari para siswa yang melanjutkan pelajaran ke Beijing atau kota-kota besar Tiongkok. Lembaga kurus tidak menyia-nyiakan kesempatan tersebut dengan memberikan pelayanan untuk melanjutkan pendidikan ke daratan Tiongkok.

Pelbagai motif mungkin mendorong para siswa untuk mempelajari bahasa Mandarin seiring mengglobalnya pengaruh Tiongkok. Yang jelas, tren ini seperti sebuah renaisans salah satu budaya bahasa tertua dunia, yakni Mandarin yang sudah sedemikian lama berinteraksi di Nusantara dan terpotong semasa Orde Baru.

One thing that I remmembered from my time in SD and SMP is the fact that I didn't pick up a good analytical skills. All we did was memorized, memorized, memorized. There was no discussion and you can't debate with the teacher. Of course, this was more than 10 years ago so I don't how it is now.
I went to Canisius College, a top catholic boy school in Jakarta...and was surprised by the low quality of teaching and lack of discipline. It was all about rote-learning (memorizing) , students would smoke in the cafeteria, even some teachers smoke when they're teaching in class!

smoking during class tsk tsk tsk...~

thats dummmmb. memorizing gets you NOwhere i swear. sure it makes u learn alot of stuff real quick, but all that stuff that you would've learned through memorization wouldn't stick in your head for long. itll only last a week TOPS.

indonesia needs to ditch the Asian teaching system and turn to the american system. (they've somewhat adopted that by when their schoolyears starts). in order to learn and maintain knowledge, youd have to integrate the material into lil activities that would help you learn it, like having debates in class, doing projects, making charts together as a class, experiments etc.-- not through direct memorization. this may take longer but it works sooo mcuh more better.

so in short, all indonesian schools should be like JIS

oh yeah and here, smoking is not like at a certain radius around the campus. so ud haved to get far away from my school to smoke, or else ull be in deepshit.

plus smoking isnt even "cool" here. pretty much noone in my school smokes (3500 kids in my scool btw).

kolese kanisius.. i remember back in 95 i go there for a newspaper competition.

kolese kanisius.. i remember back in 95 i go there for a newspaper competition.
hehe really? i was in SMP1 back in 1995, and yes, Kanisius is famous for its "Kording" (Koran Dinding - Wall Newspapers), I don't know about now though...lot of things must've changed! ;)

omong2 soal kanisius.. that's my school now by the way... ;)
alvin, r u sure u see students smoking in canteen?? i even have never seen it!! (but if in hang-out places around kanisius, yah maybe you can see it clearly..)
yeah i know some students smoke.. but it's a minority.. very minor.. i know it well..
of course i'm not one of them.. yes smoking isn't cool.. it's kinda stupid anyway..
for teaching method, yes i really2 hate the way they teach now.. it's far2 different from what i got from my junior high (also in canisius). i think teaching method in junior high is more fun and high quality.. that's why Canisius's junior high still on the TOP list of schools in jakarta, not like the senior high one..

but i really think, canisius is still one of the best school in jakarta.. if you compare with other school, i think there are many schools are wayyyyy behind canisius..
about kording: yes it's still exist until now.. and we as students almost every 2 month are obliged to make that kording..but the spirit is dropped pretty deep than what u see years ago.. i think kording isn't that popular now.. (kording skarang cuma asal buat dapet nilai doang) dulu lmyn rajin nerbitin majalah skolah.. skarang gak kedengeran lagi kabarnya..
however.. IMO overall canisius is still great.. it's facilities and events are good.. and what i really respect is that they're not kind of skolah mata duitan.. for the financial it's really fair here.
cheers.

it's really hard to go to CC..
from my old school (tarakanita 5 or TARLIM) just 2 guys got in..
i heard that if u cought cheating once u will get expelled from the school?
is it right vallian?
r u still in cc? my cousin went to cc junior.. he said that it's really hard..

wooww.. my cousins went to a school called tarakanita too

personally i don't like catholic school like tarakanita, CC, sanur, or panghudi luhur because they still aplly old fashioned rules! very strong and traditional rules!
and pelajaranya it's really BERAT!
that's why i didn't get good marks there..
BUT
being there it's just great.. no one ever complain about the school.. it's because it has strong alliance between them.. and i had so many friends there! the experience to be there it's really2 great! the pressure.. the pelajaran, kakak kelas... friends...

whoaa... i miss my old school...!

wooww.. my cousins went to a school called tarakanita too

really?
di tarki mana? tarlim? angkatan brapa? namanya? siapa tau gw kenal..
i graduated last year from tarlim.. most of my friends went to tarakanita puloraya which is all girl school.. and the guys went to panghudi luhur (PL)
i went to binus high which is national plus school with really nice building!

yup that's right ksunarjo.. once you cheat.. then it's the end for you in canisius.. and i think almost every year there must be at least one to be dropped out because of cheating.. maybe they don't use good enough technics.. :)
yeah i still in cc.. just in for 11th grade.. yah for d first time emang susah sih.. but as time goes, it turns easier and fun!! blieve me..

what?

no comprendo.. lol

i only understood nama
they went to tarakanita. and there are three of them, two sisteres and one brother. their namas areee carrieanna, natalia, and brian Amijo.

and they're half "boolay"

oops.. sorry.. i thought u speak bahasa..
i was asking that what great your cousin are..
next time i'll use english so i won't confuse others..

omong2 soal kanisius.. that's my school now by the way... ;)
alvin, r u sure u see students smoking in canteen?? i even have never seen it!! (but if in hang-out places around kanisius, yah maybe you can see it clearly..)
yeah i know some students smoke.. but it's a minority.. very minor.. i know it well..
of course i'm not one of them.. yes smoking isn't cool.. it's kinda stupid anyway..
for teaching method, yes i really2 hate the way they teach now.. it's far2 different from what i got from my junior high (also in canisius). i think teaching method in junior high is more fun and high quality.. that's why Canisius's junior high still on the TOP list of schools in jakarta, not like the senior high one..

Yeah, when I was there in 1995 as an SMP1 student, I was shocked to see that some SMP3 kids were smoking and playing cards in the canteen. The lack of discipline just amazed me, I think its probably because the teachers were busy smoking themselves in the teacher's room...

Who did you have when you were in SMP? I had Pak Hasti and Bu Dam for Bahasa, Pak Hendro for Economics, Pak Topo for Geography and history. Pak Rudjito for Olah Raga. Pak Santo for Maths. I wonder if they're still there... :)

personally i don't like catholic school like tarakanita, CC, sanur, or panghudi luhur because they still aplly old fashioned rules! very strong and traditional rules!
and pelajaranya it's really BERAT!


I agree...I used to have to wake up at 4 AM every morning to study for a test...I remember we had at least 2 tests EVERY DAY, which is crazy. High school in Australia seems quite light in comparison, but more effective and more forgiving to the student. In CC, the academic requirement is just torture...arrgghh....
but other than that, my memories in CC are generally good...great friends, and friendly teachers!!

yup that's right ksunarjo.. once you cheat.. then it's the end for you in canisius.. and i think almost every year there must be at least one to be dropped out because of cheating.. maybe they don't use good enough technics.. :)
yeah i still in cc.. just in for 11th grade.. yah for d first time emang susah sih.. but as time goes, it turns easier and fun!! blieve me..

really? but it seems that they don't really catch these cheaters very often. Most of the time we always had cheaters in class, and on a couple of occasions HALF THE CLASS were involved in a mass-cheating scheme involving sign language and stuff...it was a multiple choice (pilihan ganda) exam..haha

http://www.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0507/22/humaniora/1916447.htm

Tiga Perunggu dari Olimpiade Matematika

Indonesia merebut tiga medali perunggu dalam Olimpiade Matematika Internasional yang berlangsung di Merida, Yucatan, Meksiko, 8-19 Juli 2005. Ketiga medali tersebut diraih Andre Yohannes Wibisono (SMA Katolik St Louis Surabaya), Sander Prawira (SMA Kristen 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta), dan Dimas Yusuf Danurwenda (SMA Negeri 10 Samarinda). Tiga pelajar lainnya yang juga memperkuat tim Indonesia, kali ini belum berhasil meraih medali, yakni David Hartanto Widjaja (SMA Kristen BPK 1 BKP Penabur Jakarta), Kristo (SMA Negeri 3 Yogyakarta), dan Andika Widjaja (SMA Katolik Kolese St Yusuf Malang). Mereka tiba di Bandara Udara Soekarno-Hatta, Cengkareng, Kamis (21/7) malam, berikut dua pembinanya: Ahmad Muchlis dari (Institut Teknologi Bandung) dan Hery Susanto (Universitas Negeri Malang). Siaran pers yang dikirim wakil pembina tim Hery Susanto menjelaskan, olimpiade tersebut diikuti 523 pelajar dari 91 negara. Indonesia berada di urutan ke-43/44 dengan total nilai 70. Posisi Indonesia lebih baik dari Belanda, Yunani, Spanyol, Portugal, Denmark, Finlandia, Swedia, dan Norwegia. Lima negara teratas adalah China (nilai 235), Amerika Serikat (213), Rusia (212), Iran (201), dan Korea (200). (NAR)

Indonesian team photo
http://erdos.fciencias.unam.mx/indonesia.htm

This is an interesting perspective on that new regulation..never thought about it that way..i guess he has a point.

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New rule to stymie English teaching
Hinton John Lowe, Bandung

The government's announcement of a new regulation that all foreigners must pass a test of their competence in Bahasa Indonesia before being granted a work permit, is arousing controversy.

A consequence of this will be that many teachers of English will be excluded. They will not come here. They will go instead to other countries where they are welcome and don't need to pass such a test. And where there is government support for programs to teach and learn English.

Many Indonesians want to learn English. The English language is a gateway to many education and employment opportunities, both in Indonesia and elsewhere. Even some tertiary teaching here, such as in medicine and management, is already being conducted in English.

Not all parents can afford to send their children abroad to acquire competence in English; and many of them would prefer to keep them at home, in their families, if there were equal education opportunities here, especially to learn good Standard English.

Most students identify lack of opportunity to speak English as their main disadvantage in learning the language. More speakers and teachers of good English here would increase their opportunities.

Whilst it is a good idea that foreigners who work here should learn to speak Bahasa Indonesia, perhaps the test should be applied after one year, before renewal of their work permits. However, it seems unreasonable that teachers of English from English speaking countries should be able to speak, and perhaps also read and write, Indonesian before coming here.

No indications have yet been given about the types and degree of competence that will be required, adding to the uncertainty about the meaning of the regulation and its effects. Perhaps the announcement of the new regulation has preceded such considerations.

The quality and level of competence in teaching and using Standard English in Indonesia is generally very poor. Access of well educated speakers, writers and teachers of Standard English to work in Indonesia should not be discouraged by the requirement that they be already competent in Bahasa Indonesia before they are permitted to teach English here.

Such a requirement will retard Indonesia's economic and intellectual development, and restrict the education and employment opportunities of its citizens. The governments of many countries now have policies and programs to extend competence in English, to enhance their competitive trading and intellectual positions in the new global economy.

Will Indonesia, yet again, fall behind in the stakes, because of ill-conceived language policies? Or perhaps, because of the lack of any policy!

The writer is a lecturer at Universitas Widyatama, Bandung. He can be reached at hilo@indo.net.id.

The problem is, many top company position is held by foreigners. I think the goverment is hoping this post will be held by Indonesian or foreigner that can speak Indonesian (at least they show some real interest to Indonesia).

Of course they can just make a regulation that says top position can not be held by foreigners, but this kind of regulation will directly prevents foreign investment.

I think it is good legislation in a lot of ways. There are already many laws meant to keep foreigners out of top positions or in positions that can be held by Indonesian citizens of less qualification.

However, the author of the article is right. It will certainly retard economic growth. If you look at the most developed countries in Asia, you will find they have rapidly expanding English programs. It is so extensive in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea that even public primary schools in these countries are given the means to hire foreign English teachers for their children.

It just depends on which direction Indonesia wants to take in the international business community. It appears they are looking more inward than to international trade.

It just depends on which direction Indonesia wants to take in the international business community. It appears they are looking more inward than to international trade.

can this be a good thing???

Well, that's just my opinion. I don't think it's a good thing at all, but it would certainly benefit Indonesians who have college degrees. The reason Indonesia is behind the rest of the region in terms of college graduates is because there is little incentive to have a degree. New graduates from the best public universities in Indonesia [if they can find a job] only have a minimum wage of about 1 million rupiah per month in Jakarta. I suppose the solution can either be found in the knee-jerk reactions like the Bahasa Indonesia legislation or in long-term economic and a business-friendly environment that will provide the right opportunities for college graduates.

I read that it was actually a reaction to new demands from an ASEAN agreement that would open Indonesia's labor market to many English speakers in the region, in which case it seems to make sense. I guess we'll see what the real purpose of the law is in the coming years.

Alvin... you went to CC? I went to CC too. When did you leave/graduate?
I finished SMP in 1996, finished sma in 1999 (but was leaving to US in 98)..
Glad to see some 'anak CC' in the forum! :)

The article made a lot of sense, and in many ways i agree with it. I think the effectiveness of such regulation to help Indonesian labors are limited at best. Limiting foreign labor through the Bahasa Indonesia test will perhaps slow the inflow of foreign labors into Indonesia. But we should not forget that majority of the foreign workers in Indonesia are skilled specialists or those holding high posts in MNCs. These are not positions that can be readily substituted by Indonesian workers, even if the Indonesian contender for the job holds identical education qualification to the foreigner.

On the other hand such regulation, as highlighted by the article, stymies the growth of labor quality in Indonesia. We would lose out on the skills brought in by foreign workers in Indonesia, in this example the expertise of English teachers. The same situation will happen not only in English classes, but also in other industries, like on the mines (foreign drilling experts) and office (foreign managers). What should be encouraged instead is for Indonesian workers to learn as much from their foreign colleagues while they're here.

I personally belief that training (and education) is the only way Indonesian worker can compete internationally. Why local companies and MNCs here hire foreigners is not always because of the lack of workers with necessary degrees, but sometimes they don't trust the quality of Indonesian education. These foreigners would definitely demand high pay for working here, and I could not imagine them working for a meagre sum of a few juta rupiahs a month. In other words, the foreign workers themselves are source for high operating cost for companies, and they would choose not to hire them as soon as a comparable (and trustable) cheaper alternative is found.

To finish up, the government should improve working condition here so that we can retain local talents. Otherwise, many of our talents will move away to "better" countries.

I personally belief that training (and education) is the only way Indonesian worker can compete internationally. Why local companies and MNCs here hire foreigners is not always because of the lack of workers with necessary degrees, but sometimes they don't trust the quality of Indonesian education. These foreigners would definitely demand high pay for working here, and I could not imagine them working for a meagre sum of a few juta rupiahs a month. In other words, the foreign workers themselves are source for high operating cost for companies, and they would choose not to hire them as soon as a comparable (and trustable) cheaper alternative is found.


You're right about the high salary of foreigners especially european and american or even asian who work for MNC assigned back from Europe/USA to asia. They're paid high, provided they're under expatriate package NOT local contract (which case is almost inexistant for foreigners who works in Indonesia).

There are several reason why they're assigned in Indonesia from abroad, which is not always related to our education system:
1. Headquarter or holding company want to ensure that their policy is well deployed
2. Relocation of manufacturing from abroad, therefore there is need of skilled labor
3. Internal mobility policy of a company to give employees an opportunity to work in other region.
4. Employee wants to keep retirement insurance in home country (very true case for expatriate from France and Italy into other countries). This is off course subject to agreement from home country.

cheers,
tata

New international school embraces all nationals

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

As a new school that just opened its doors in July, the Bunda Mulia Australian International School on Jl. Lodan, Ancol, North Jakarta, has drawn a remarkable number of Indonesian students to access the international education it provides.

Established by the Australian International School and the Bunda Mulia Foundation, the school enriches its Australian curriculum -- from the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra -- with local content, such as Indonesian and Chinese cultures and languages.

"Currently we have 218 students, including some from Korea, India, Taiwan and China," said David Simojoki, the head of the school management, adding that more than 90 percent of the students were Indonesians.

The school offers five levels of education: nursery, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary and junior high. Next year the school will open a high school.

According to Bunda Mulia Foundation chairwoman Rita Djoko Susanto, the school has adopted an Australian curriculum in a bid to accommodate students who plan to earn their degrees at Australian universities in the years to come.

"Based on a survey early this year, Australia is a preferred destination for Indonesian students in continuing their studies. The survey showed that around 18,000 active students are studying in Australia," Rita told The Jakarta Post.

The school's teachers, mostly Australians, provide both Australian and Indonesian elements in their lessons, said the school's director of operations, Kurnia Sukrisna.

The school also provides special needs support in class. For example, it has a special needs center to serve autistic children and those with behavioral difficulties. Meanwhile, for gifted students, an enrichment program is available to develop their special interests.

Simojoki said that the school welcomed students from all religions and all cultures.

"In the Australian education system, we don't teach a particular religion. Although we teach about religions in general as part of the social environment program, we don't emphasize any particular religion."

Simojoki said that international students would not face any problems in transferring to schools in their home countries as the Bunda Mulia's report cards were accepted everywhere, while students transferring to the school were required to take a test.

International students would also be introduced to Indonesian culture. The school, for example, would bring its junior high students to visit Yogyakarta, Central Java, in the near future.

"We will celebrate Indonesian Independence Day by wearing traditional clothing and continue the celebration on Friday by organizing Indonesian games and competitions," said Simojoki.

The school also has spacious classrooms, with each accommodating a maximum of 25 students, outdoor and indoor sports facilities, a library, computer and science laboratories, and multipurpose and performing arts auditoriums.

The tuition fees range from Rp 900,000 per month to Rp 4 million, on top of a fixed Rp 10 million entrance fee, depending on the level, Kurnia said.

Besides the Bunda Mulia school, the Australian International School has two other campuses in Kemang, South Jakarta, and one in Bali.(004)

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm

no indonesian universities in top 500

I remember reading somewhere that ITB beats even the highest ranking Australian university. And that was last year or two years ago.

I remember reading somewhere that ITB beats even the highest ranking Australian university. And that was last year or two years ago.

Is it??
that was great
nut what happens to our education now??
:(:(

Taken from www.thejakartapost.com


RI to have top physics, math training center

Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

To accommodate the growing number of students interested in science, Indonesia will soon have an internationally recognized training center for physics and mathematics.

The Asian Physics Olympiad (APO) and the private President University have started this week the construction of the center in Jababeka, Bekasi.

APO's president Johannes Surya said that the center's main objective was to train local physics and math teachers as well as developing the skills and knowledge of students from all over Asian countries to be qualified to compete in the Olympiad.

"We are in dire need of quality teachers in math and physics. You see, we lack around 1 million physics and math teachers nationwide. This center will try to meet that demand," he told The Jakarta Post early this week on the sidelines of the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between APO and President University to build the center in Jababeka.

Johannes said that he was very grateful that private institutions, like President University and Jababeka Industrial Estate, were taking part in the project.

Johannes usually worked alone to select bright students to compete in the world contest.

He said that the construction of the building would begin this week after the MOU signing but fell short of revealing the cost of construction.

The construction of the center, together with its facilities, was expected to be completed in May next year, and would start operation in June, Johannes said.

He added that they were now selecting trainers, and added that the center would have full-time staff to guarantee continuity.

"We will cooperate with each local administration nationwide to select teachers who will be trained," Johannes said.

The center would enhance teachers capability in making physics and math interesting and fun for students.

"We have a method that has been recognized by Asian countries to make both physics and math interesting subjects to learn. We hope by the end of the training, the teacher can adopt it," he added.

"Many countries have trusted Indonesia as we have always won gold medals in the Olympiad. Several countries have showed their interest in sending their students to the center before competing in the Olympiad. We should be proud of this recognition," Johannes said.

Meanwhile, Jababeka's president director Setyono Djuandi Darmono welcomed the project, saying that the center would help in materializing Jababeka's plans to create educational premises within the industrial estate.

cool!!! that's interesthing

UGM ranked first in ASEAN for quality assurance system

YOGYAKARTA (JP): Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) has been classified as being top of 17 ASEAN universities grouped in the ASEAN-European University Network Program (AUNP) as far as its quality assurance system is concerned.

The head of UGM's Quality Assurance Office, Toni Atyanto Dharoko, who revealed the university's placing on Tuesday, said that it shared the top spot with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

"Our high score came mostly from three factors: theharmonization of internal and external quality assurance systems, the ASEAN standard content, and the fact that the QA system has been implemented for all study programs at the university," Toni explained.

The evaluation on the implementation of the QA system in UGM by Ton Vrorijenstion of the Netherlands, an expert on European QA systems, started last July. The assessment ended mid August.

"The result was announced at a meeting held in Manila at the end of last month," he said.

Toni said that in the face of globalization in the education world, with the education sector due to be included in the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), such recognition was important for UGM.

Toni also said that UGM had actually started to implement a QA system in 2000, following its decision to join the ASEAN University Network for Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) with 16 other ASEAN universities in 1999.

UGM and the University of Indonesia (UI) represent Indonesia in the forum, which has now been extended to become the ASEAN-European University Network Program (AUNP). (**)

Penjaminan Mutu UGM Terbaik di Asia Tenggara
Selasa, 27 September 2005 | 14:03 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta berhasil meraih peringkat pertama dalam pelaksanaan penjaminan mutu perguruan tinggi tingkat ASEAN. Pemeringkatan dikeluarkan setelah ASEAN-European University Network Program (AUNP) menilai 17 perguruan tinggi se-Asia Tenggara.

UGM bersama Chulalongkom University, Thailand, meraih nilai tertinggi. "Ini sangat membanggakan sebab merupakan pengakuan internasional terhadap UGM," kata Kepala Kantor Jaminan Mutu UGM Toni Atyanto Dharoko, Selasa (27/9), di Yogyakarta.

Dijelaskannya, salah satu nilai tinggi yang diperoleh UGM dalam penilaian tersebut adalah pada tingkat harmonisasi penjaminnan mutu internal, sistem mutu eksternal, dan muatan standar ASEAN yang sangat banyak.

UGM, kata Toni, sudah mulai melakukan penjaminan mutu sejak 1999 dengan menggunakan istilah Sistem Penjaminan Mutu Pendidikan Tinggi (SPMT) UGM. Tetapi baru pada 2004, sistem penjaminan mutu UGM secara resmi dideklarasikan.

Dikatakan Toni, 17 perguruan tinggi yang tergabung dalam ASEAN-University Network for Quality Assurance System, pada 2006 akan bergabung dengan seluruh peguruan tinggi di 42 negara di Eropa yang terlebih dahulu membentuk jaringan.

Setelah bergabung nanti, standar mutu UGM sudah diakui secara intenasional. "Bahkan ke depannya, mahasiswa UGM bisa menyelesaikan sebagian kuliahnya di perguruan tinggi Eropa dan sebaliknya," kata Toni. Syaiful Amin

http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/nasional/2005/09/27/brk,20050927-67148,id.html

dari koran republika.co.id

Rabu, 28 September 2005 20:25:00
Dubes Perancis Jajaki Kerjasama Dengan ITS Surabaya

Surabaya-RoL -- Duta Besar Perancis, Renand Vigual, bersama Konselor Ekonomi dan Perdagangan, Franck Perrault, dan beberapa pengusaha Perancis, Rabu, mengunjungi Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Surabaya untuk menjajaki kerjasama antar keduanya.

"Kunjungan Dubes Perancis itu merupakan kunjungan kedua setelah kunjungan serupa pada tahun 2003 saat Vigual memperkenalkan diri sebagai pejabat baru Indonesia," kata rektor ITS, Prof Dr Ir Mohammad Nuh DEA.Menurut dia, kehadiran Dubes sebagai representasi negara dan para pengusaha Perancis untuk membuka dan mengembangkan usaha di Indonesia itu merupakan bagian terpenting yang memang harus disambut baik ITS.

"ITS punya banyak pakar di berbagai bidang, sedang industri yang dibangun para pengusaha itu membutuhkan tenaga ahli dalam mengelola, karena itu pada kunjungan kali ini disepakati untuk bersinergi," katanya. Ia menilai sinergi ITS-Kedubes Perancis itu merupakan langkah baik, sehingga ITS dengan segala sumber daya manusia dan kepakaran yang dimiliki akan membantu para pengusaha dan industriawan Perancis yang memang siap menanamkan modalnya di Indonesia.

Nuh yang juga alumni sebuah universitas di Perancis itu mengatakan kunjungan Dubes Perancis juga meningkatkan jalinan kerja sama dengan perguruan tinggi di sana. "Kami sudah bekerjasama dengan La Rose University untuk pengembangan Pulau Kangean, dan dengan ENSCI Paris dalam bidang kerja sama desain industri. Ke depan, harus lebih banyak lagi hubungan kerja sama dengan perguruan tinggi di sana," katanya.

Senada dengan itu, Vigual menilai ITS mempunyai posisi amat penting dan strategis bagi Perancis, bukan hanya berkait dengan banyaknya para ahli yang siap membantu, tapi juga cukup banyak dosen ITS yang berasal dari berbagai perguruan tinggi di Perancis."Hal itu akan dapat dikembangkan untuk menjalin kerja sama lebih erat lagi di bidang keilmuan," katanya.

Dalam kesempatan itu, Dubes Vigual juga berjanji akan menjembatani hubungan kerja sama dengan berbagai perguruan tinggi yang ada di negaranya. "Mudah-mudahan, kunjungan kami dapat lebih meningkatkan hubungan kerja sama dengan beberapa perguruan tinggi di Perancis untuk kemajuan-kemajuan bidang keilmuan yang dibutuhkan kedua negara," katanya.

Menurut catatan ITS, jumlah alumni Perancis yang ada di ITS saat ini berjumlah sekitar 50 orang. Sebagian besar dari mereka adalah para penerima program beasiswa dari pemerintah Prancis (BGF) dan hanya sebagian kecil penerima beasiswa dari bank dunia. ant/pur

from www.thejakartapost.com



AIT, IPB mull cooperation

BOGOR, West Java (Antara): The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand and the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) will consider this week whether to cooperate in various fields, an IPB official said on Sunday.

"The two institutes could cooperate in such fields as education and training, faculty and student exchanges and research," said IPB vice rector Asep Saefudin.

"AIT is strong in technology while IPB's strength is in agriculture in general. Such cooperation would be beneficial," he said.

Asep said the possible cooperation would be discussed further and decided on in three months time.

Meanwhile, visiting AIT president Said Irandoust said he welcomed the cooperation idea, adding that IPB had a lot of potential being the largest tropical agricultural institute in Southeast Asia. (***)

BANDUNG--MIOL: Gara-gara memukul isteri seorang jenderal TNI yang tengah melaksanakan kebaktian di Gereja HKBP Bandung, dosen matematika ITB, Pontas Hutagalung harus mendekam di kantor polisi.

Kapolsekta Bandung Wetan, Iptu Irfan Nugraha kepada pers di Bandung, Senin (17/100 mengatakan korban bernama Ny Lin Simanjuntak (53). Akibat pemukulan ini, korban mengalami luka serius pada rahang dan gusi serta mulut dan hingga Senin (17/10) sore masih dirawat intensif di RS TNI Sariningsih Bandung.

Menurut Kapolsekta, peristiwa yang menimpa isteri Brigjen TNI (Pur) SM Simanjuntak, yang mantan Dirum Kodiklat TNI-AD, berlangsung Minggu siang (16/10) sekitar pukul 14.30 WIB, saat korban Ny Lin sedang

kebaktian di Gereja HKBP di Bandung.

Ketika korban dan 40 jemaah lainnya sedang serius berdoa, lanjut Kapolsekta, tiba-tiba Pontas Hutagalung yang mantan anggota MPR 1987 ini masuk ruangan di lantai dua gereja tersebut, sambil berteriak menanyakan

mobil yang menghalangi mobilnya di halaman parkir gereja HKBP di Jalan Riau Bandung.

Melihat dosen tadi terus menerus berteriak, akhirnya korban Lin menghampiri dosen ITB itu. Ia kemudian minta waktu untuk mengumumkan siapa pemilik mobil yang menghalanginya kepada jemaah lainnya.

Namun belum juga korban masuk ruangan kembali, pelaku yang diduga sudah tak sabar dan emosi langsung menyergap korban dan langsung melayangkan tinjunya ke muka korban. Korban langsung ambruk bersimbah darah yang keluar dari mulutnya.

Dengan adanya kejadian itu, kata Kapolsekta, spontan suami korban yang memperoleh informasi adanya keributan, langsung mendatangani gereja, kemudian menghadang dosen Hutagalung dan akhirnya menghajar

kembali dosen tersebut. Suami korban langsung membawa pelaku ke kantor polisi Polsekta Bandung Wetan.

"Mobil yang dipermasalahkan itu bukan mobil saya. Tapi, pelaku ini nampaknya menuding kalau itu mobil saya. Saya tak menyangka kok dosen berperilaku seperti itu, padahal dia merupakan teman suami saya sejak kecil," kata korban saat ditemui wartawan di rumah sakit. (Ant/OL-06)

http://www.media-indonesia.com/berita.asp?id=78387

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ckckck
pantes aja mahasiswa Indonesia sering tawuran

this good for an example, the mutual cooperation between the rich and the poor...


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Binus adopts neighboring school

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

"I've got love down in my heart," said Nigel Jukanto, a grade two student of Bina Nusantara (Binus) elementary school.

Nigel was one of the Binus students who took part in the giving of Rp 5 million in assistance to SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang, which is located on Jl, Mesjid Anur 3, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta on Monday.

The money, which was raised by students and parents of Binus through selling a variety of food and snacks, singing and organizing a movie show at the school, was intended to help the 175 students of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang to purchase textbooks.

Each student of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang pays around Rp 300,000 per semester for textbooks.

"With the money that Binus students and parents donated, each student of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang will pay Rp 50,000 less than the stipulated amount," said Elsie Bait, Binus elementary vice principal.

Apart from the money, Binus also donated a number of books for the library of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang, which has a total of 388 students.

"Without books, the education of our children will never be complete," said Marino, the principal of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang.

Binus students also plan to paint the library of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang, which is situated in a flood-prone area.

Some 213 students of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang will also get a gift hamper from Binus on Oct. 27. Every year, Binus students give gift hampers to residents near the school.

Binus has adopted SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang as its sister school, which is just five minutes walk from the Binus School, which is situated in Simprug.

Binus students also regularly conduct an English course with students of SDN Grogol Selatan 12 Petang.

Students and staff of SDN Grogol 12 Petang visited Binus School and played futsal with Binusians on Sept. 16.

"Our guests from SDN Grogol 12 Petang came so that we could reach out to them and give them an opportunity they may otherwise never be able to afford. But when it was time for them to leave, we realized that we had received even more than they did," said Binus teacher Manoharan Karthigasu.

from www.thejakartapost.com



20% budget allocation for schools? 'Not likely'

Urip Hudiono and Hera Diani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

While welcoming the Constitutional Court's ruling that obliges the government to increase the education budget, education observers raised doubts that the ruling would take effect in 2006, while the chief economics minister hinted at the likelihood of an even more bloated budget deficit if the ruling were implemented.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday in its judicial review of the national education law, that government must allocate at least 20 percent of the state budget and regional budgets for education.

The percentage is in accordance with the amended 1945 Constitution.

The Court also ruled that the allocation should take effect in 2006, instead of a gradual increase.

The Court's panel of judges noted that this country's education system was lagging behind in terms of quality, so it needed to become a priority to improve that.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Aburizal Bakrie said that the government had considered allocating more but that it would raise the risk of widening the budget deficit.

The deficit projection so far in the 2006 State Budget draft is 0.7 percent.

"For instance with the larger budget allocation for health or education, the deficit will probably bloat to around 1.1 percent, which right now is being discussed at the House of Representatives," Aburizal said on Thursday, as quoted by Antara.

Educational expert and professor Conny Semiawan said that in these days of economic hardship, it would be unlikely that government would raise the budget for education in 2006.

"We have our hopes high, and we hope for the better, but frankly, I'm very pessimistic. Even with the ruling, if there's no money, the government cannot increase the allocation. So, let's just wait and see," said the former rector of Jakarta State University.

Education activist Yanti Muchtar from Kapal Perempuan (Ship of Women), a non-governmental organization working on education for women and the poor, said that the government must follow the Court's ruling, especially as the fuel price hikes have caused more students to drop out.

"The allocation should emphasize educational programs, particularly for the nine-year compulsory education. Which means that elementary and junior high school must be free," Yanti said.

The government, she said, should also revise the related laws and regulations that stipulate that the education budget must be paid for by the government, parents and communities, and thus free the government from its responsibility.

State Minister for National Development Planning Sri Mulyani Indrawati, meanwhile, declined to comment on the Court's ruling, pending further assessment of the issue.

Sri Mulyani and Minister of Education Bambang Sudibyo had previously presented to the House of Representatives Commission XI for financial affairs, a scheme in which the government would increase each year the state budget's allocation for the education sector by an average of 3 percent each year, until it reaches 20.1 percent in 2009.

Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that the government had for this year allocated Rp 24.6 trillion (some US$2.4 billion) -- or 9.29 percent of the government's total expenditures -- for education through the national education and religious affairs ministries, which is a 33 percent increase from its allocation last year.

The House, however, agreed to provide Rp 33.7 trillion for the sector in the budget's final revision, along with Rp 6.27 trillion in low-income assistance funds for educational purposes.

The amount seems larger, but it is actually lower by percentage as the government's revised expenditures had also increased to Rp 411.6 trillion.

For the 2006 state budget, the government has proposed a total of Rp 31.3 trillion for the education sector, from the government's Rp 375 trillion planned expenditures.

The proposed budget is being deliberated by the House and could be approved in its plenary session on Oct. 27.

They've been rapidly expanding the military budget. Perhaps they could put that on hold while they raise education funding.

How much does the military budget expand? is it around 3 billion dollars?

cheers

In 2004 the defense budget increased by over 100% from the previous year to $1.3 billion (compensating for the removal of private holdings). In 2005 it nearly doubled again to $2.1 billion. For 2006 it is seeking an increase to $2.4 billion plus an extra $550 million package for weapons procurement over the next few years. Admittedly, it's still low, but I'm just suggesting that's an area where they can create some slack.

I personally think the idea of specifying minimum allocation for education in the Constitution is stupid and unnecessary, because budget allocation really depends on circumstnaces and to enforce 20% blank rule to it hinders government's freedom to plan its programs the way it wants. So it's not suprising that eventhough the amendments were passed in 2001(?), to date no government has been able comply with that 20% requirement, which renders that constitutional provision meaningless. Even if the Constitutional Court issues a public ruling that mandates the government to spend 20% on education next year, if it is fiscally impossible then it will not be done and there will be no consequences flowing from such breach anyway.

Well said Alvin.

Analysts reject proposed bigger education budget


Urip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

While welcoming the Constitutional Court's ruling that mandates an increase in the education budget, economists are saying that full implementation would not be fiscally viable at present due to the state budget's many limitations.

Economist Faisal Basri said a 20 percent allocation for the education sector -- as stipulated in the Constitution and recently upheld by the Court -- would mean the government would have to provide up to Rp 110 trillion (some US$11 billion) in funds, assuming next year's expenditures at some Rp 550 trillion -- an amount that would be difficult to work into the current budget structure.

"Of course the government can reallocate its spending for this, but what use would it be if more goes to education, but we take away from infrastructure and health, for example," the economist from the University of Indonesia (UI) said.

"Reducing fuel subsidies and debt payments, meanwhile, also have their own economic and political complications."

Sri Adiningsih from Gadjah Mada University mentioned how swapping fuel subsidies for more education funds -- by allowing another fuel price hike -- could hurt the economy, referring to how the recent rise in inflation and interest rates from the latest hike would likely stifle growth and push up the jobless numbers.

Meanwhile, concerning the option of meeting the requirement simply by raising expenditures for education at the expense of a wider budget deficit, both Faisal and Sri Adiningsih said that it too had its fiscal risks.

"With allocations for education now standing at some Rp 40 trillion, an additional Rp 70 trillion would translate into a deficit of some 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), which is not good in terms of fiscal sustainability, particularly if the government fails to finance it," he said.

The best that the government could do, Faisal said, is to gradually increase the allocation as it had planned to do -- citing a 50 percent budget increase next year to Rp 60 trillion with a tolerable 1.5-percent deficit.

The government had said it would only be able to increase the education budget by an average of 3 percent each year until it reaches 20.1 percent in 2009.

While the options are limited on the spending side, Chatib Basri, who is also from UI and an advisor at the Office of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, said the government had at present few options to increase revenue, other than boosting tax collection and proceeding with the privatization of state-owned enterprises.

"Taxing too much could, however, hurt businesses and the whole economy, while I don't think proceeds from the selling of state assets would amount to that much, apart from likely objections the public," he said, adding that the government's planned allocation of between 12 and 14 percent for next year would still be feasible.

Nevertheless, Faisal, Chatib and Sri Adiningsih, were all of the opinion that the education budget must indeed be increased further if this country wants to improve its human resources.

"The Court's ruling should be seen as a wake-up call for the government to change its paradigm and priorities in drafting the state budget and providing more for human-resource development," Sri said.

Faisal, meanwhile, suggested a more output-oriented paradigm -- rather than an input-oriented one -- for the educational sector, linking its financial support to what is actually needed.

"Why provide so much money in advance, if we are actually not prepared in the way we will spend it wisely for the betterment of our nation's education system?" he said.

Well, I think it's a noble idea. Indonesia's education system obviously needs a massive boost in funding.

Well, I think it's a noble idea. Indonesia's education system obviously needs a massive boost in funding.
noble, but unrealistic (at least for the foreseeable future).

Definitely unrealistic. I guess most noble ideas are.

22-10-2005
Ancol Bangun Tempat Kegiatan Belajar Untuk Anak Putus Sekolah

PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol Tbk, (PT PJA) bekerja dama dengan Yayasan Sekolah Rakyat mengungkapkan kepeduliannya terhadap anak putus sekolah dengan memberikan sebuah gedung Tempat Kegiatan Belajar (TKB) Mandiri Harapan Mulya di Jl Industri III Dalam Pademangan, Jakarta Utara.

Gedung yang telah didirikan pada tahun lalu kini dihuni oleh sekitar 47 anak putus sekolah yang berasal dari keluarga kurang mampu untuk mengenyam pendidikan tingkat sekolah menengah pertama (SMP).

Direktur utama PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol Ir. Budi Karya Sumadi kepada wartawan mengatakan, untuk meningkatkan kepedulian dan meningkatkan tali kebersamaan antara sesama pada bulan Ramadhan pihaknya mengajak anak putus sekolah yang ada di TKB untuk berbuka puasa secara bersama.

"Bukan hanya anak putus sekolah saja yang kami berikan santunan, tapi juga santunan diberikan kepada tujuh orang guru pamong di sekolah itu," katanya.

Budi Karya juga mengatakan, dengan digelarnya acara bukan bersama dan pemberian santunan diharapkan dapat meningkatkan mitra pendukung untuk memaksimalkan pengembangan TKB Madiri Haraan Mulia.

Sementara Bagian Humas PT PJA Sofia Cakti ketika dikonfirmasi mengatakan, buka puasa bersama yang digelar pada hari Jum´at (21/10) juga merupakan tanda keseriusan Manajemen Ancol untuk memaksimalkaan pengembangan TKB TKB Madiri Harapan Mulia dengan mitra pendukung dan dan semua pihak terkait di sekitar Ancol demi eksistensi dan kelancaran proses pembelajaran TKB tersebut.



Penulis: udin

Sumber: dien

well, this is good.

No buses means no students

Theresia Sufa, The Jakarta Post, Bogor

The Bogor administration's plan to protect the scenic Sukamakmur area from uncontrolled development has turned it into a backwater, teachers say, with schools finding it difficult to attract students.

While it has beautiful views, the alternative route connecting Jakarta and Cipanas district in West Java is isolated and has no public transport system connecting the outlying villages to Sukamakmur town, where the two state junior high schools are.

Teachers say the lack of buses means few villagers, who are mostly small farmers, are able or willing to send their children to high school.

Every year, high school teachers walk for up to 10 km to each of the 10 villages in the district for door-to-door checks to look for prospective elementary-school graduates.

"That is our challenge as teachers in an isolated area like this," Ayi Zaenal Falah, a teacher of Sukamakmur Junior High School No. 2, told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

Parents who did send their children to school still kept them home every harvest time to take care of the house and their younger siblings while they worked in the fields.

"The nearest high schools are in Jonggol or Cianjur districts, which means hours of walking, or to Bogor, which is 120 kilometers from Sukamakmur," Ayi said.

The central government's assistance program for school operations, a scheme known as BOS, meant children could go to elementary and junior high schools for free without any additional fees imposed, Ayi said.

"So the parents should no longer worry about school fees ... We just hope that they will let their children go to school."

Another good news about Gajah Mada University
(Joko: your school man!)

News from Media Indonesia (http://www.mediaindo.co.id/berita.asp?id=80527)

UGM Masuk Jajaran 100 Universitas Dunia

Penulis: Amirudin Zuhri
YOGYAKARTA--MIOL: Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta masuk dalam jajaran 100 perguruan tinggi dunia dalam bidang ilmu Budaya dan Humaniora yang dikeluarkan oleh harian The Times, Inggris.

Dari 100 universitas yang dikeluarkan harian Inggris itu, UGM masuk pada nomor 56 bersama 16 universitas lainya. Ke-16 universitas yang sama-sama masuk ke peringkat 56 tersebut antara lain Royal Melbourne Institut Technology, Universitas Wina, Universitas Tsing Hua, Universitas Frankfurt, Universitas Athena, Universitas Bologna, Universitas Hiroshima, Universitas Hitotsubashi, Universitas Ámsterdam, Universitas Lomonosov Moskow, Universitas Nasional Singapura, Universitas Madrid, Universitas St. Andrews, Universitas Utah, Universitas New York, dan Universitas Negeri Michigan. Sementara tiga besar diduduki Havard University Amerika, Oxford University serta Cambrige University, keduanya dari Inggris.

"Ini jelas prestasi yang membanggakan, apalagi UGM adalah satu-satunya universitas di Indonesia yang masuk ke jajaran 100 terbaik itu," katanya, kata Rektor UGM Sofian Effendi kepada wartawan, Rabu (9/11).

Menurut Sofian, dalam menentukan peringkat ini, The Times menggunakan enam kriteria penilaian yakni reviu oleh kelompok bidang ilmu, reviu oleh pewawancara

kerja, persentase staf pengajar internasional, persentase mahasiswa internasional, rasio dosen dengan mahasiswa, serta indeks sitasi dosen.

"Jurusan ilmu program studi pasca sarjana sosial dan humaniora UGM berhasil mencapai skor total 36,5 dan mendapat penilaian positif dari kelompok bidang ilmu, jumlah mahasiswa internasional dan staf pengajar internasional yang besar, serta indeks sitasi dosen yang juga tinggi," tambah rektor.

Rektor menambahkan, sebenarnya ada tiga ilmu yang disurvei The Times. Selain Budaya dan Humaniora, bidang biomedicines dan social sciences juga disurvei.

Namun kedua bidang ini belum mampu masuk dalam jajaran 100 terbaik. Namun rektor optimis tahun yang akan datang dua bidang ini mampu masuk karena keduanya mempunyai keunggulan.

"Kita akan berusaha agar dua bidang ini juga masuk dalam jajaran 100 terbaik dunia, sehingga UGM akan masuk ke jajaran 200 univeristas terbaik yang syaratnya tiga bidang harus masuk ke jajaran 100 terbaik itu," katanya. (AZ/OL-1)

yeahh! way to gooo~~ it's really cool

Bravo UGM!!! :okay:

cool...!!!!

Indonesia berhasil menyabet 18 medali dalam Olimpiade Matematika dan IPA Internasional Tingkat SD. Total medali yang diperebutkan 119 peserta dari 12 negara mencapai 104 medali.

"Kita patut bangga atas prestasi yang diraih anak-anak ini," ungkap Mendiknas Bambang Soedibyo dalam penutupan ajang tersebut di Hotel Nikko, Jalan MH Thamrin, Jakarta, Jumat (18/11/2005).

Olimpiade yang diprakarsai Ditjen Taman Kanak-kanak dan Sekolah Dasar Depdiknas itu berlangsung selama lima hari, sejak 14 November-18 November. Kompetisi ini diikuti 12 negara, yakni Alzerbaijan, Brunei Darussalam, Taiwan, Filipina, India, Malaysia, Singapura, Srilanka, Thailand, Ukraina, Vietnam, dan Indonesia.

Di bidang IPA, Indonesia berhasil menyabet 2 medali emas, 4 perak dan 3 perunggu dari 51 medali yang diperebutkan. Sedangkan di ajang matematika, Indonesia merebut 1 emas, 4 perak, dan 4 perunggu dari 53 medali yang diincar para peserta.

Medali emas untuk bidang IPA dikantongi Harun Reza Sugito, siswa kelas VI SDK II BPK Penabur dan Restiana Ramdani, siswi kelas VI SD Vidatra Bontang. Sedangkan medali perak diperoleh I Wayan Rakanandra Saputra, siswa kelas VI SD Saraswati III Denpasar, Andika Tangguh P, siswa kelas VI SD Al Azhar 17 Bintaro, Fikri M Caesar, siswa kelas VI SD PN Setiabudi Bandung, dan Gregorius Bhaskara Wikanendra siswa kelas VI dari SD Marsudirini Yogyakarta.

Sementara medali perunggu diperoleh Abdullah Syafiq Edyanto, siswa kelas VI SD Muhammadiyah Condong Catur Yogyakarta, M Vega Adhi Nugraha, siswi kelas VI SDN Cepu III Blora, dan Diannisa Paramitha Susantono, siswi kelas VI SD Pesangrahan 10 Jakarta.

Di bidang matematika, medali emas direbut Toby Moektiono. Sedangkan medali perak diperoleh Ivan Wangsa CL, siswa SD Sang Timur Jakarta Timur, Stevanus, siswa SD Kalam Kudus Jakarta Barat, Ahmad Zaki dari SD Muhammadiyah II Jakarta, dan Jeremiah Riker Gunawan dari SD Tarakanita Sukoharjo Jawa Tengah.

Sementara medali perunggu diperoleh Oki Novendra dari SDN Polisi IV Bogor, Erwin Sutiono dari SD Tunas Bangsa Pontianak, Jennifer Santoso dari SD BPK Penabur Tangerang, dan Awang Brilian Brantas dari SD Jombatan V Jombang.

Penghargaan Terbaik

Selain mendapat medali, Indonesia juga berhasil merebut dua penghargaan terbaik bidang teori IPA dan matematika. Untuk teori IPA direbut Andika Tangguh P yang juga mengantongi medali perak bidang IPA dan penghargaan terbaik teori matematika yang disabet Toby Moektiono dari SD Santa Maria Jakarta.

Kepada detikcom, Toby mengaku sangat senang atas penghargaan yang diterimanya. Pada kesempatan sebelumnya, ia juga sering mengikuti kompetisi-kompetisi, baik nasional maupun internasional.

Menurut ibundanya, Grace Oviana Suryadi, Toby sudah cinta pada matematika sejak duduk di bangku TK. Semenjak TK, Toby sudah bisa menciptakan rumus matematika sendiri.

Karena itu, sewaktu duduk di bangku kelas IV SD, sekolahnya menyarankan Toby mengikuti ajang perlombaan nasional dan internasional di bidang matematika. Toby memiliki tingkat kecerdasan di atas rata-rata, 154.
http://jkt2.detiknews.com/indexfr.php?url=http://jkt2.detiknews.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2005/bulan/11/tgl/18/time/185552/idnews/481411/idkanal/10

We have a lot of potential students but the government doesnt have the money to boost education funding...I feel sorry for the students in state schools, they dont have good facilities and well-educated teachers like in Private schools.

Btw i just found out if Indonesian kids doesnt have to pay school fee from elementary school until high school, but many said its useless, because they need to buy books and other stuff which is in the end, more expensive than the SPP (school fees).

Cheers

Yeah, agree. I always feel that government is half hearted in education. I also very concern with our teacher qualities. Sure there are plenty of good teacher, but dedication only is not enough. They need to be uptodate with world technology. Lots is wayyyyy behind in this case.

Jakarta is making effort to minimize the gap between public and private schools.
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City plans to increase subsidy for state schools
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The city administration has decided to increase subsidies for state elementary and junior high schools in the capital, but the hike might not be enough to provide free schooling as promised.

Head of City Basic Education Sylviana Murni said that the subsidy for school operational costs (BOS) would be raised from the current Rp 27,500 (US$2.75) per student per month to Rp 50,000 per student per month in 2006.

Aside from that, state schools still receive BOS funds from the central government worth Rp 19,500 per student per month.

"With the subsidy from the city administration and the central government, parents of elementary school students should not pay any fees (at all) as the schools' operational costs are already covered by the subsidies," Sylviana said.

Sylviana, however, admitted that it was still difficult to provide free schooling for junior high schools.

"For elementary school students, we have no problems because we have allotted the funds, but for junior high school students, it might be very difficult," she said, adding that the issue would be further discussed by City Councillers.

For junior high school students, the city administration will increase its subsidy from Rp 50,000 per student per month to Rp 65,000 per student per month next year, while BOS funds from the central government for each student will be Rp 27,500 per student per month.

There are some 640,000 elementary school students and 250,000 junior high school students in the capital.

Sylviana said that the operational costs for each junior high school student was Rp 150,000 per month.

She said that Governor Sutiyoso had supported the plan for free junior high schools and had asked her to discuss the issue with the City Council.

According to the draft city budget for 2006 submitted to the City Council early this week, the city administration allocated Rp 3.79 trillion to the education sector, 13.69 percent higher than the allocation for 2005.

Chairman of City Council's Commission E for education, health, and people welfare Dani Anwar said that the city would have to allocate Rp 100 billion more for the education sector if it wanted to provide free education at senior high schools.

"In principle, we will help the city administration earmark more money to cover elementary and junior high school operations. I believe that we can provide free education to all junior high school students next year," Dani told The Jakarta Post.

Interviews with some schools and students in the capital, however, suggested that free schooling in Jakarta was still long way off.

While some state elementary and junior high schools find the subsidies just enough to cover operational costs, some claimed the amounts were inadequate to cover school operations.

Amir Syarifuddin, a teacher at SDN Kebon Sirih 1 Pagi, said that with the subsidies his school would be able to provide students with some textbooks and finance several extracurricular activities.

But for a number of other schools, the money was not enough to cover their operational costs.

Sugimin, a teacher at SDN Menteng 1 Pagi in Central Jakarta, said that according to the school draft budget for 2006, the operational cost for each student in his school would be some Rp 80,000 per month.

According to the teacher, the money would be used to finance various extracurricular activities like computer and English courses and various sports, as well as for paying electricity bills.

"Classes in our school are equipped with air conditioners, therefore we must pay large amount on electricity bills," said Sugimin, who was given an award for being the city's "best teacher" by the city administration this year.

Minggu, 04 Desember 2005, 05:19 WIB
Habibie: Indonesia Kaya Tapi Miskin

Laporan -

MAKASSAR, investorindonesia.com

Mantan Presiden BJ Habibie yang kini menetap di Jerman, menyindir bangsa Indonesia pada acara ramah-tamah bersama masyarakat Sulsel yang digelar di rumah jabatan Gubernur Sulsel, Sabtu malam.

"Indonesia sebenarnya kaya, tetapi miskin, pasalnya, Indonesia memiliki kekayaan sumber daya alam, namun hal tersebut tidak dikelola dan dimanfaatkan dengan baik, sehingga kondisi bangsa ini masih tetap berada dalam keterpurukan," ujar Habibie yang juga mantan Menristek.

Masyarakat Indonesia masih banyak yang hidup di bawah garis kemiskinan, padahal kaya dengan sumber daya alam. "Karena Indonesia tidak mengandalkan sumber daya manusianya untuk membangun dan memajukan negeri ini," jelasnya.

Di Singapura lanjutnya, yang dikenal "miskin" dengan SDA, namun negara tersebut merupakan negara yang kaya karena sumber daya manusianya giat, dan memberbdayakan SDM yang mereka miliki.

"Singapura itu mengimpor air bersih dari Malaysia, seharusnya bangsa Indonesia bisa melakukan negosiasi agar Singapura mau mengimpor air (minum) dari Indonesia," ujar mantan Presiden RI ketiga ini.

Komoditi coklat yang dimiliki Indoensia seharusnya bisa bersaing dengan negera lain. Dia mencontohkan,selama ini Swiss dikenal dengan coklatnya, namun sesungguhnya, coklat yang dikelola Swiss tersebut berasal dari Indoensia.

Dia berharap, SDA yang dimiliki Indonesia dapat dikelola dengan baik dan memberdayakan SDM yang dimilikinya, mampu menciptakan inovasi-inovasi baru serta bangsa Indonesia bisa menghargai SDM nya sendiri. (ant)

eeerrr I think I heard that alot of times from alot of people

eeerrr I think I heard that alot of times from alot of people


exactly what i was thinking... :bash:

I hope SBY's wishes will come true..

Yudhoyono Seeks 20% of Budget for Education Sector

JAKARTA, Dec 5 Asia Pulse - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government has attempted to expedite the allocation of 20 per cent of the state budget for the education sector.
"We wish to expedite the disbursement of 20 per cent of the budget," President Yudhoyono said when he met a delegation of the International Conference on the Right to Basic Education as Fundamental Human Rights and the Legal Framework for its Financing at the State Palace here on Sunday.

Representatives from 34 countries attended the meeting.

He further said that Indonesia has decided to allocate 20 per cent of the state budget for education and for the nine-year compulsory education.

Indonesia tries to enhance the quality of its education, he added.

To enhance the quality of education, according to him, Indonesia and other countries are facing similar problems namely a reasonable budget for education

He admitted that the target of 20 per cent allocation for education has yet to be realized due to both limited budget and the amount of the subsidy the government must provide in view of the increase in world oil prices. At the same time, the government must also provide a budget for poverty eradication and health promotion.

For 2005, the government will allocate 9.6 per cent of the budget for the education sector and will increase its amount by 12 per cent in 2006.

"We hope the amount of 20 per cent will soon be disbursed," he added.

Yudhoyono said Indonesia had allocated Rp5 trillion for basic education and the amount should be increased. The government will also improve school infrastructure and provide books at relatively low prices.

Meanwhile the Minister of National Education said that his office wished the 20 per cent could be disbursed soon. "We want the target can be realized in 2006 but we must also realize that the state's finances are not so good," he added.

On the damaged schools, the minister said that the ministry had plans to rehabilitate these in the next three years.

The state has allocated funds for the rehabilitation of school buildings. The ministry is still formulating efforts to share burden with regional administrations relating to the projects.

Almost 50 per cent of elementary school buildings are either seriously or lightly damaged.

(ANTARA)

Yeah, that is a very worth it long term investment.

Foreign graduate from President University
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Isabelle Zeng Li, 21, was all smiles on Friday as she walked to the podium to deliver a speech as the representative of the international students graduating from President University in Jababeka, Cikarang, West Java.

"Three years ago I came from Sichuan province in China with little knowledge about Indonesia or English. Suddenly, I was in the middle of an English-language environment, learning about electrical engineering," said Li.

She was speaking on behalf of 22 international students who were among the 31-member inaugural graduating class of President University, which opened in 2002. The graduation ceremony on Friday was attended by parents, lecturers, businesspeople and diplomats from China and Vietnam.

The 22 international students came from China and Vietnam, and all earned a bachelor of science either in electrical engineering or information technology.

While most international students come here to learn about the country's rich variety of languages and cultures, Li said her time at the internationally recognized university was very rewarding studying science, technology and English.

"Studying inside an industrial estate like Jababeka was unique as I was able to apply what I learned in class at real companies," she said.

Don Watts, an education expert from Australia, said the graduates from China and Vietnam would return to their countries and help spread the good word about Indonesia.

"We can't say that these graduates will not become leaders in their respective countries as they are all bright students. Imagine the benefit for Indonesia in the future if they become important people there," he said.

President University Rector Muliawati G. Siswanto said most of the school's first group of graduates had already secured jobs at multinational companies such as Yamamoto and Mattel.

"They are our first graduates since we began in 2002. We are very proud because it is rare for international students to graduate from science and technology institutions in Indonesia," she told the Post.

Setyono Djuandi Darmono, president director of PT Jababeka, which established the university in 2002, said all 1,115 companies inside the industrial estate would continue to support the university to help it become one of Indonesia's leading schools.

"This graduation shows that what we are doing is paying off. We will continue to hire the best lecturers and experts and procure the best equipment for the university. We will also try to invite the brightest young people to enroll at the university," he said.

Sri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta

Cash-strapped Indonesia has uncovered a new and rich deposit of future scientists after its team of 12 students romped home with six gold medals at the 2nd International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) that closed on Monday.

The Indonesian students, who also collected five silver and two bronze medals, eclipsed competitors from 33 other countries, including Taiwan, Russia and South Korea, which finished second, third and fourth respectively in the annual event.

Yosua Michael Maranatha gave Indonesia an extra laurel as he won the coveted Absolute Winner trophy, the most prestigious award in the competition. He was also named the Best Theory Winner.

"Of course I'm happy. This is very encouraging," said 15-year-old Yosua, a graduate of the Stella Duce junior high school in Yogyakarta, after receiving the awards.

Yosua has been admitted to the State Senior High School No. 3 in the sultanate town, but has never attended classes there as he had to undergo intensive training for the IJSO at Karawaci in Tangerang, Banten starting April, along with his teammates.

It was a back-to-back success for Indonesia, which collected eight gold medals in the inaugural event in Jakarta last year.

But Minister of National Education Bambang Sudibyo, who closed the competition, said the fact that Indonesia had won less golds this time around did not reflect a setback.

"I don't consider it a decline in our achievements. For me, it's just a consequence of the increasing number of the participating countries, including eastern European countries that have a very strong tradition of science," Bambang said.

Compared to last year's event which saw 29 countries participating, there were 34 nations represented this year.

Yohanes Surya, the man behind the national team's success, agreed with Bambang. Surya said all the participating countries were well prepared for the tough competition.

"Last year we were the most prepared team. If we want to maintain our performance next year, we will have to devote more time to the preparations," he said.

Surya, also the President of the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team, suggested that the selection of students for the 2006 IJSO in Sao Paulo, Brazil, start in January.

Taiwan won five gold medals and a silver medal, with Russia taking three gold and three silver medals and South Korea bagging two gold and four silver medals.

Indonesia won its gold medals from Yosua, Arie Prasetyo, David Halim, M. Firmansyah Kasim, Richtia Winnerdy and Winson. The silvers came from Alwi Alfiansyah, Michael Agung Pradana, Saifur Rizal, and Thomas A. Nugraha, while the bronzes were from Ratih Tri Utami and Yessi Martha.

Organizers awarded the Best Experiment awards to Chin-Yu Chien and Yu-Chi Yeh of Taiwan, Kalpit Tarang Dixit and Sanchit Kiran Deshmukh of India and Mikhail Proskurin of Russia.

The Best Performer awards went to Samuel David Millner of Britain, Manal Sakun Easa of the United Arab Emirates, Rasolondraibe Ando Nantenaina of Madagascar, Bridget Durowa Antwi Boasiako of Ghana, Mohammed Ahmed Hasen of Saudi Arabia, and Fahad Nayf Al Harbi of Kuwait.

A total of 280 students took part in the week-long competition, which was opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday last week.

wow! go indo!

Jakarta government to sell their stock on brewer PT Delta Djakarta to realize free education (in elementary and junior high school) in the city.

Jual Saham Pabrik Bir, Sekolah Gratis Terealisasi
Rabu, 14 Desember 2005 | 17:47 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta:Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta akan menggunakan dana hasil penjualan saham di PT Delta Djakarta yang bergerak pada usaha minuman bir, untuk menutup kekurangan anggaran program menggratiskan biaya pendidikan di Sekolah Dasar Negeri dan Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri.

Ketua Komisi Kesejahteraan Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah (DPRD) DKI Jakarta, Dani Anwar mengemukakan kesepakatan
diambil dalam rapat menjelang penetapan Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Daerah (APBD) 2006.

Ia menerangkan, dari penghitungan terakhir program sekolah gratis, masih ada kekurangan dana Rp 108 miliar dari Rp 500 miliar yang dianggarkan. Kekurangan sebesar itu khususnya untuk menukupi kebutuhan tingkat SMPN. "Hasil penjualan (saham pabrik bir) sebanyak sekitar 138 miliar akan dialihkan untuk menutup kekurangan," jelasnya, Rabu (14/12).

Menurut Dani, Asisten Keuangan Pemprov DKI Hari Sandjodjo sudah bersedia menjualkan saham tersebut. Pemerintah DKI memiliki saham sebanyak 4.204.014 lembar saham di PT Delta. Dengan harga pasar di Bursa Efek Jakarta per tanggal 8 Desember 2006 sebesar Rp 33.000 per lembar, maka nilai saham keseluruhan lebih dari Rp 138 miliar.

Penjualan saham itu dilakukan karena kontribusi kepemilikan saham itu terhadap Pendaptan Asli Daerah selama lima tahun terakhir tidak mengalami pertumbuhan signifikan. Harun Mahbub

9-years free school in Jakarta confirmed.

dari: http://www.suarapembaruan.com/News/2005/12/15/index.html
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Sekolah Gratis 2006 Dipastikan Bakal Terlaksana
DPRD Desak Pemprov DKI Lepas Saham di PT Delta

JAKARTA - Kalangan DPRD DKI Jakarta memastikan, Pemprov DKI akan mampu mewujudkan rencana sekolah gratis sembilan tahun bagi seluruh anak, baik dari keluarga tidak mampu ataupun yang mampu.

Untuk membiayai program tersebut, dewan pun merekomendasikan agar Pemprov DKI melepas sahamnya di PT Delta Indonesia, perusahaan produsen minuman beralkohol Bir Bintang.

"Tapi, pelaksanaan sekolah gratis itu tidak bergantung pada penjualan saham Pemprov DKI. Karena dijual atau tidak, tahun 2006 rencana sekolah gratis itu harus terlaksana. Uangnya dari mana? Itu urusan eksekutif," kata Anggota Komisi E DPRD DKI Jakarta, Agus Darmawan, ketika ditemui Pembaruan di ruang kerja komisi, Rabu (14/12).

Menurut Agus, jika Gubernur DKI Jakarta, Sutiyoso, setuju untuk menjual saham di PT Delta, kekurangan anggaran sekitar Rp 108 miliar untuk membiayai program ini dapat teratasi. Sebab, dari penjualan saham tersebut, diperkirakan Pemprov akan mendapatkan dana segar Rp 132 miliar.

Jumlah tersebut, cukup untuk menutupi kekurangan anggaran pendidikan, terutama untuk subsidi siswa SMP. Sebab, pada Rancangan Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja (APBD) DKI tahun 2006, biaya pendidikan baru terkumpul Rp 400 miliar, jumlah itu hanya cukup untuk menutupi subsidi siswa SD.

Rencana penjualan saham itu sendiri, direkomendasikan oleh Komisi C DPRD DKI. Salah satu alasannya, saham tersebut per 30 Juni 2005 terdelusi dan hanya menyisakan 26,5 persen saham, atau setara dengan empat juta lembar saham.

Menurut Agus, jika penjualan saham itu dialokasikan bagi biaya pendidikan, total anggaran untuk subsidi pendidikan dari tingkat SD-SMP akan mencapai lebih dari Rp 500 miliar. "Dana tersebut cukup untuk menggratiskan seluruh biaya pendidikan SD dan SMP di Jakarta selama satu tahun. Jadi, mulai tahun depan jangan ada lagi pungutan atau sumbangan dalam bentuk apa pun," tuturnya.

Selain penjualan saham di PT Delta, kata Agus, dewan juga mengusulkan pengurangan penyertaan modal pemerintah (PMP) pada PT Jakarta Propertindo, yaitu dari Rp 200 miliar menjadi Rp 100 miliar. "Kalau setengahnya bisa dialihkan, tentu bisa juga untuk menutupi kekurangan anggaran pendidikan," jelasnya.

Anggota Komisi E, Ahmad Husein Alaydrus berharap, Pemprov DKI bisa mewujudkan rencana pendidikan gratis dengan bersedia melepas sahamnya di PT Delta. "Kalau nantinya sudah gratis, kita enggak mau lagi lihat oknum kepala sekolah yang masih memungut uang dari orangtua murid," ujarnya.

Wakil Ketua Komisi C DPRD DKI Jakarta, Prya Ramadani membenarkan, komisinya telah merekomendasikan penjualan saham Pemprov DKI di PT Delta. Dia juga menyatakan persetujuannya jika hasil penjualan saham tersebut dialokasikan untuk tambahan biaya pendidikan sembilan tahun yang digratiskan.

Sementara itu ditemui terpisah, Gubernur DKI Jakarta, Sutiyoso, memastikan rencana pendidikan gratis sembilan tahun itu akan terlaksana mulai awal tahun 2006. Hanya dia mengaku, masih belum mendengar rekomendasi dewan perihal penjualan saham Pemprov DKI di PT Delta.

"Rekomendasi itu akan kita pertimbangkan lagi karena saham itu memberikan pemasukan yang cukup besar bagi pendapatan daerah," katanya.

Sedangkan Kepala Dikdas DKI, Hj Silviana Murni menyatakan kegembiraannya jika dewan telah mendapatkan solusi untuk menutupi kekurangan anggaran pendidikan dengan merekomendasikan penjualan saham Pemprov DKI. (Y-6)

yayyyy that's real cool

it's reli good! so every kids can go to school.

JAKARTA (Antara): The government will build a World Olympic Center campus in Serpong in Banten province, just outside of Jakarta next year as a training ground for junior high and high school students in the fields of physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, computer and other hard sciences, a minister said on Tuesday.

Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie announced the plan after meeting the Indonesian Science Olympic team, recently declared the overall winner for the year 2005, led by the team's supervisor Yohanes Surya.

Aburizal said that the plan to build the campus was made after a proposal by Yohanes with the aim of enabling Indonesian teams to win various world science competitions.

"Indonesia has thus far reached only the second or third rank in the Olympic competitions in physics, biology or chemistry so the planned campus is expected to further push the Indonesian delegation to reach the top or even produce a Nobel prize winner," Aburizal said.

Meanwhile, Yohanes warmly welcomed Aburizal's support for the establishment of the campus project, planned on a plot of state land near the Indonesian Technology Institute in Serpong.

He explained that the project, estimated to cost about Rp 40 billion (US$4 million), would be designed to have a capacity to train 10,000 teachers per year and hundreds of students, with an entrance prerequisite of 140 or higher Intelligence Quotient(IQ). (**)

I think that's a good idea

informasi beasiswa utk pelajar indonesia: (http://informasi-beasiswa.blogspot.com/)

Kenapa?

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Kamis, 05/01/2006 16:07 WIB
Mahasiswa Indonesia siap tinggalkan Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (Antara): Mahasiswa Indonesia siap kembali ke Tanah Air menyusul ultimatum pemerintah Pakistan kepada pelajar asing untuk meninggalkan negara itu paling lambat Minggu lalu.

"Kami telah bersiap-siap. Kalau memang benar-benar dievakuasi pamerintah (Pakistan), kami pasrah saja", kata Sahril Bukit, Ketua Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI) di Karachi, Pakistan, hari ini.

Wakil Konsul Jenderal RI di Karachi, Hikmat Moeljawan, membenarkan kesiapan mahasiswa Indonesia untuk dievakuasi dari negara Asia Selatan itu.

"Kami [Konjen RI di Karachi] belum menerima surat resmi dari pemerintah Pakistan. Namun kami sudah menyampaikan kepada semua mahasiswa Indonesa di Karachi agar mempersiapkan diri menghadapi kenyataan itu", kata Hikmat pada Selasa.

Kabid Penerangan Konjen RI di Karachi, Henny Mulyani,menjelaskan sejumlah mahasiswa Indonesia di kota itu telah kembali ke Tanah Air.

"Tetapi, para mahasiswa yang meninggalkan Karachi itu telah merampungkan studinya. Beberapa mahasiswa di antaranya kembali ke Tanah Air melalui program tenaga musim haji (Temus) di Arab Saudi", kata Henny.

^^ Kalo ngga salah.. yg dipulangkan itu cuma yg belajar di sekolah non akreditasi. jd ngga semuanya di pulangkan.

IMO its better to kuliah in Indonesia rather than Pakistan

source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailcity.asp?fileid=20060113.G07&irec=6


Free education starting January

JAKARTA: The promise of free education for many elementary and junior high school students in Jakarta and the Thousands Islands regency from late January onward has been welcomed by parents.

The administration has upped the 2006 provincial budget allocation for development in education to Rp 689 billion from Rp 500 billion.

Head of the city's agency for basic education Sylviana Murni said on Thursday the education costs borne by the administration amounted to Rp 69,500 for each elementary school student and Rp 127,000 for each junior high school student monthly.

Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows there are 2280 elementary schools and 286 junior high schools in Jakarta.

The schools can still ask parents to pay extra fees but in restricted amounts. "For elementary school students, they can impose fees of up to Rp 100,000 and for junior high school students Rp 125,000," she said. -- JP

Jumat, 03 Maret 2006 20:19:00
Depdiknas Diminta Perbesar Peluang Masuknya PT Asing

Jakarta-RoL -- Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (Depdiknas) diminta memperbesar peluang masuknya perguruan tinggi (PT) asing ke Indonesia untuk meningkatkan daya saing sumber daya manusia dan menghemat pengeluaran untuk membiayai studi ke luar negeri.

Deputi Menteri Koordinator Kesejahteraan Rakyat Bidang Pendidikan dan Aparatur Negara Prof.Fuad Abdul Hamied, PhD di Jakarta, Jumat, menjelaskan selama ini dana dalam negeri yang dikeluarkan untuk membiayai studi ke luar negeri cukup besar.

Ia mencontohkan pada 2004 sebanyak 18.104 mahasiswa Indonesia menempuh pendidikan di Australia sehingga negara itu mendapatkan devisa sekitar Rp3,72 triliun (1 dolar Australia=Rp6.851,5) dari Indonesia. "Sedangkan di Inggris antara tahun 2003 hingga 2005 terdapat 2.270 mahasiswa Indonesia, yang artinya sebanyak Rp308 miliar uang kita habis untuk itu," katanya.

Lebih lanjut Fuad menjelaskan bahwa upaya untuk membuka peluang masuknya perguruan tinggi asing dapat dilakukan dengan melonggarkan ketentuan-ketentuan yang selama ini berlaku tentang lembaga pendidikan tinggi. Menurut dia ketentuan-ketentuan tentang lembaga pendidikan asing selama ini menjadi penghambat bagi masuknya perguruan tinggi asing yang berkualitas ke Indonesia.

Ia menjelaskan pasal 65 (2) Undang-undang nomor 20 tahun 2003 mewajibkan setiap penyelenggara pendidikan asing untuk bekerjasama dengan lembaga pendidikan di wilayah Indonesia dan mengikutsertakan tenaga pendidik dan pengelola warga negara Indonesia.

Selain itu pasal 9 (1) Keputusan Mendiknas nomor 223/1998 juga menghendaki setiap perguruan tinggi atau lembaga lain di luar negeri untuk melakukan kerjasama dengan perguruan tinggi di dalam negeri dalam bentuk kerjasama kontrak manajemen atau kemitraan dalam pembentukan badan penyelenggara.

Persyaratan-persyaratan itu, menurut Fuad, tidak semuanya bisa dipenuhi oleh lembaga pendidikan asing karena mereka memiliki standar tertentu untuk menjaga kualitas pendidikan yang mereka tawarkan. "Karena itu aturan perundangan kita harus membuka lebih banyak peluang untuk itu," ujarnya.

Perguruan tinggi lokal pun, kata dia, harus berani membuka diri dan menyiapkan diri untuk bersaing dengan lembaga pendidikan dari luar negeri. Ia mengatakan masuknya lembaga pendidikan asing seharusnya menjadi pemicu bagi perguruan tinggi lokal untuk meningkatkan kualitasnya dan menyejajarkan diri dengan mereka.

Sebab, Fuad menjelaskan, saat ini terdapat sebanyak 2.428 perguruan tinggi negeri dan swasta dalam berbagai bentuk dengan jumlah mahasiswa sebanyak 3.796.717 orang. Namun dari semua perguruan tinggi yang ada di Indonesia, kata dia, tidak ada satupun yang masuk dalam jajaran perguruan tinggi berkualitas di dunia dan bahkan di Asia.

Oleh karena itu, ia kembali menegaskan, peluang masuknya perguruan tinggi asing ke Indonesia harus diperbesar agar lembaga pendidikan tinggi di dalam negeri juga terpacu untuk meningkatkan kualitas dan daya saingnya. Pemerintah, kata dia, juga harus mendukung perguruan tinggi lokal untuk meningkatkan kualitasnya agar bisa sejajar dan mampu bersaing dengan perguruan tinggi asing.

"Pemerintah bisa melihat dengan sungguh-sungguh potensi satu hingga tiga perguruan tinggi di tanah air dan sepenuhnya mendukung mereka supaya bisa mempunyai reputasi internasional. Misalnya saja dengan meningkatkan gaji tenaga pendidiknya atau mendatangkan tenaga pendidik yang berkualitas dari luar negeri," demikian Fuad. antara/pur

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UI gets upgrade with world-class library
Tantri Yuliandini , The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
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Once it was just a big, dark, four-story building in the backwoods of the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, West Java.

But major changes have made UI's University Library a bustling center of activity for the university's students and academics.

Today, students' chatter and laughter can be heard ringing through the library's outer corridors. Some browse the shelves of the building's upper stories, while at the newly opened Kafe Libri, several students make use of the free hotspot to log on to the Internet.

"It's certainly different from when you were studying here several years ago," University Library spokeswoman Kalarensi Naibaho told The Jakarta Post .

She said the UI needed a library befitting a top university if it wanted to become world class, which meant providing easier access to the library's collection for students, lecturers and the general public.

"We have, therefore, developed a hybrid library, in that some of our collection is now available online through both the Internet and the university's intranet," Kalarensi, also known as Clara, said.

The digital library service was recently introduced in conjunction with the University Library's 23rd anniversary on Mar. 5.

The library provides online catalog access to its entire collection -- comprising reference books, fiction and non-fiction, theses, dissertations and magazines -- at www.lib.ui.ac.id .

"We also subscribe to some 25 online databases, making us one of the university libraries in the country with the most comprehensive online database service," Clara said, explaining that the database gives access to scientific articles and academic papers from international online journals on various subjects.

Besides the main library, each of the UI's schools have their own specialized libraries, and many of the departments too.

This is because the schools at UI's Depok campus are spread across more than three million square meters of land. A totally centralized library system would be inefficient for students.

"If we completely centralized the library, it would only benefit students from the Social and Political Sciences School and the Cultural Sciences School, who are in closest proximity to us," she explained.

While not all schools have linked their database to the library's online catalog, all students and UI staff are able to borrow books from other schools through the library's inter-library loan system.

"So far, only the libraries managed by the Computer Science School and the Economics School have linked their database to our online catalog. But we expect all other schools to also connect to us in the near future," Clara said.

The Cultural Sciences School Library, for instance, is preparing to enter its database in the online catalog.

"We've added our collection of theses and dissertations to the University Library's online service, but although our library is already available through the intranet, we have yet to enter the data in the online catalog," School of Cultural Sciences Library head Mohamad Aries said, explaining that one of the problems of integrating the database was the different software used.

He said the school library has over 52,000 titles, including specialized publications in various languages taught at the school, such as Chinese, Arabic, French, and English, as well as rare texts in ancient Javanese and Malay.

While the UI's libraries are open both to its students and to the public, only students and staff at the university are permitted to take books home.

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Blair in Indonesia schools link

Tony Blair said understanding was vital to the global economy
Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Council have launched an initiative to link 1,000 schools in England to partners in Indonesia.
Mr Blair, who is on a tour of Indonesia, said world standards in education meant "beginning with understanding the world".

He signed an agreement making Indonesia a new partner in a drive to help schools make international links.

The country is home to the world's largest Muslim population.

Mr Blair also met Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his visit to the country, and described Indonesia as "a crucial partner" in ensuring greater understanding between people of different faiths.

Indonesia has joined 53 other countries which already take part in Global Gateway, a British Council-run website helping schools establish partnerships with schools abroad.

The website also helps schools incorporate elements of the partner country's culture and history into the curriculum, as well as apply for sources of funding to continue the link.

Global understanding

Mr Blair was visiting Pondok Pesantren Darunnajah, an Islamic boarding school in southern Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, which has begun a link via the internet with the Holy Family Catholic School in Keighley, West Yorkshire.

The two schools will undertake email and webchat exchanges to learn about each other's lives and cultures, organise exchange visits and explore areas they have in common as faith schools.

Mr Blair will invite the head teacher of Pondok Pesantren Darunnajah, which has 1,700 students of primary and secondary level, to the UK.

The Department for Education and Skills aims for every school in England to have an international partner by 2010.

Mr Blair said: "We are equipping our young people with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to fulfil themselves, live in and contribute effectively to a global society and to work in a competitive global economy.

"This begins by understanding the world in which we live, the values and cultures of different societies and the ways in which we are increasingly dependent upon one another."

David Green, Director General of the British Council, said it was "vital to provide solid foundations for inter-cultural understanding between young people in Indonesia and the UK".

"Indonesia is a young country - 70 million people are aged under 14, nearly 30% of the population - so building trust and mutual understanding through our schools is critical to good long-term relations between our countries."

Education requires budgetary reform


Riyadi Suparno, Jakarta

During an informal gathering, Vice President Jusuf Kalla posed an intriguing question: Why has Indonesia, a country rich in natural resources, remained poor?

As you could guess, dozens of possible answers were thrown out. But one person came up with a good one that seemed to summarize all the others: Indonesia's poor human capital has seen the country left behind in terms of development even by its closest neighbors, like Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.

This should come as no surprise considering the country has invested so little to build its human capital. The government's spending on education has been consistently low, in fact among the lowest in Asia. Our education spending stood at around 1.5 percent of gross domestic product, as compared to 5.3 percent in South Korea and 2.8 percent in Vietnam, according to 2003 data from the World Bank.

Our political leaders realized this problem, and when they made a series of amendments to the Constitution in 2002 they inserted a paragraph in Article 31 on education obliging the government and the House of Representatives to allocate at least 20 percent of the government's annual spending for education.

The government and the House legally enshrined the 20 percent budget requirement when they amended the Education Law in 2003. In fact, this law goes even further in specifying that the 20 percent budget allocation for education should not include teacher salaries and official training.

Despite such noble political intentions, the government and the House have failed to deliver what was promised in the law. Government spending on education has never reached even half the required amount. Worse, regencies and mayoralties do the same thing, putting education on the back burner.

And no one seems to be bothered by this disdain for the law, except a handful of concerned citizens, mostly from the lower income brackets. Early last year, eight teachers from the small town of Banyuwangi in East Java filed a judicial review with the Constitution Court over the 2005 budget, which they said violated the Constitution because it allocated no more than 10 percent of government spending for education.

The court, in its verdict issued in July 2005, did not side with the teachers, saying that if the court ruled the 2005 budget invalid, the government would have to use the budget from the previous year, which had an even smaller allocation for education.

These eight concerned citizens did not give up. Joined by one more teacher, they filed another case review with the Constitutional Court, asking the court to nullify a number of articles and an elucidation in the Education Law that allowed the government to take an incremental approach to achieving the 20 percent budget requirement for education.

This time, the court met one of the teachers' demands. In a ruling last October, the court nullified the elucidation, which served as a caveat in terms of education spending, obliging the government to increase the education allocation to 20 percent of the state budget in 2006.

At the time the ruling was issued, the government and the House were finalizing the 2006 budget. As expected, they ignored the court and continued with business as usual. The result was that the allocation for education was less than 10 percent of the budget -- far from the required 20 percent.

The government presented to the House a scheme in which each year it would increase the budgetary allocation for education by an average of 3 percent, until it reached 20 percent in 2009.

This prompted the Indonesian Teachers Union, the Education Graduates Association and the Nurani Dunia Foundation to jump into the fight. Supported by 43 educators, they filed a judicial review against the 2006 budget.

After a long court battle, this coalition achieved one of its demands. In a ruling issued late last month, the Constitutional Court said the education allocation in the 2006 budget violated the Constitution, but the court stopped short of declaring the entire 2006 budget invalid. Instead, the court told the government to implement efficiency measures at ministries and state agencies, such as scrapping all nonessential travel, and funneling the money saved into the education budget.

Judging from the series of Constitutional Court verdicts on education and the way the government -- and the House -- has responded, or not responded, it is difficult to expect the government to heed this latest ruling.

As long as the government's budgeting system remains unchanged, with the finance minister coordinating the budgeting and the different ministries making proposals for their own budgets, we do not expect the government to be able to increase education spending drastically in the next three years.

Therefore, we call for reforms in the budgeting system to put education as the main priority. Only then can we be sure the education allocation will be increased to 20 percent of the state budget by 2009, as the government has promised.

very nice of Taiwan
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TAIWAN-SPONSORED ACEH E-LEARNING CENTER OPENS
(By Debby Wu)

8 April 2006
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Taipei, April 8 (CNA) To provide Internet access and rebuild tsunami-stricken Aceh in Indonesia, an Aceh e-learning center, sponsored by Taiwanese donors, opened Saturday as participants from Taiwan and Indonesia celebrated the occasion together via a digital video conference.

The center will provide free Internet classes to high school students in Aceh and also offer Chinese classes. There will be four school terms each year, and it is estimated that there will be 500 students registered each term. A Web site ( www.aceh.url.tw ) has also been set up to showcase the center and promote tourism in Aceh.

Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou said that the center was funded using the relief funds the Taipei City government collected from the public.

"We raised over NT$37 million (US$1.14 million) , and we thought this amount was too little for relief actions. We decided the best way was to use the money was to provide information technology education for the local people, so we have set up the information center, " Ma said during the opening ceremony.

A dozen Aceh students who came to Taiwan for their education after the tsunami were present at the event. They also talked to their families in Aceh happily during the digital video conference.

Aceh province was devastated by the tsunami tragedy of Dec. 26, 2004, with over 150,000 people being listed as dead or missing in the disaster.

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Berita dari detikinet: http://www.detikinet.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2006/bulan/04/tgl/22/time/201318/idnews/580449/idkanal/331

As far as I know, Indonesian team went to final round in Paris after beating other Asian Universities from Singapore, India, Philipines, Thailands etc

More news:http://www.e-strat.loreal.com/eStrat/Finals/Finals.aspx

Indonesia Juarai Kompetisi Strategi Bisnis Virtual
Achmad Rouzni Noor II - detikInet

Paris, Tim dari Indonesia memenangkan kompetisi strategi bisnis virtual pada putaran Final Internasional L'Oreal e-Strat Challenge Episode 6 yang berlangsung di Paris, Prancis. Kompetisi itu diikuti lebih dari 35.000 mahasiswa di seluruh dunia. Oleh wakil kita yang mengikuti kategori Undergraduate (S1), peringkat ketiga pun berhasil disabet!

Adalah Tim Concord dari Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Indonesia yang memenangkan kompetisi itu. Tim itu beranggotakan tiga orang yakni, Dharma Satriadi, Aan Budiarto dan Arif Medianto.

Mereka bersaing ketat dengan para finalis dari tujuh zona lainnya yang berasal dari sekolah-sekolah bisnis ternama di dunia seperti, London Business School (Inggris), Indiana University atau Kelley School of Business (AS), dan University of Science and Technology of China (Cina).

Kompetisi virtual L'Oreal e-Strat Challenge itu menguji kecepatan berpikir, langkah strategis dan solusi kreatif dalam memecahkan masalah saat bekerja di lingkungan bisnis yang penuh tantangan. Para mahasiswa diajak untuk merasakan duduk di kursi seorang General Manager dari perusahaan kosmetik di dunia maya.

Kompetisi itu terbagi untuk dua kategori, yakni Undergraduate (S1) dan MBA (S2). Namun sayangnya untuk kategori terakhir, tim kita belum berhasil mempersembahkan kemenangan kali ini.

Pada putaran final di Paris, Rabu (12/4/2006), kreativitas dan kemampuan komunikasi merupakan faktor penentu utama, dimana setiap tim mempresentasikan strategi business plan mereka di hadapan panel juri eksekutif. Tiga tim teratas dari masing-masing kategori dipilih berdasarkan Business Plan terbaik dan Share Price Index (SPI) tertinggi.

Panel juri untuk kategori Undergraduate adalah Deputy General Manager Human Resources untuk Grup L'Oreal, Geoff Skingsley; Zone Managing Director Africa-Orient-Pacific L'Oreal, Alain Evrard; Paris Bureau Chief BusinessWeek, Carol Matlack; Senior Vice President The Boston Consulting Group, Jacques Chapuis ; The Alfred H. Heineken Chaired Professor of Marketing INSEAD, Jean-Claude Larreche; serta Managing Director Europe 5 L'Oreal Luxury Division, Valerie Chapoulaud.

Menurut Presiden Direktur L'Oreal Indonesia, Richard Matalon, Mahasiswa Indonesia selama dua tahun terakhir telah membuktikan kemampuan mereka dalam ajang L'Oreal e-Strat Challenge di tingkat internasional melalui keberhasilan mereka menjadi juara I kategori Undergraduate (S1) di 2004 dan sebagai finalis keenambelas besar kategori MBA (S2) di 2005.

"L'Oreal Indonesia akan terus berkomitmen untuk mendorong mahasiswa Indonesia untuk mengenal lebih dekat dunia bisnis yang riil sehinga dapat bermanfaat bagi karir mereka di masa depan, yang mudah-mudahan dapat dirintis bersama L'Oreal," tulisnya dalam e-mail yang diterima detikINET, Sabtu (22/4/2006).

International Recruitment Director untuk Grup L'Oreal, Jean-Claude Le Grand, mengklaim permainan bisnis L'Oreal e-Strat Challenge sebagai salah satu simulasi strategis paling inovatif, berkelas internasional dan interaktif di dunia korporasi saat ini.

Simulasi itu juga merupakan hasil kerjasama antara L'Oreal dan MSN Microsoft dan telah terbentuk selama 6 tahun. Sejak diluncurkan pada 2000, L'Oreal e-Strat Challenge telah memberikan kesempatan bagi 93.000 mahasiswa di lebih dari 100 negara untuk mengalami bisnis yang nyata dan menguji kemampuan berpikir strategis di antara sesama mahasiswa sedunia.

Simulasi bisnis itu, menurutnya, juga dapat digunakan oleh para dosen sebagai materi bahan kuliah bisnis dan manajemen di kelas. Ini menjadi sinyalemen yang paling kuat dimana dunia akademik menghargai nilai pedagogis suatu permainan bisnis.

Diikuti 1.236 Mahasiswa Indonesia

Tahun ini, lebih dari 35.000 mahasiswa telah mendaftar di seluruh dunia termasuk 412 tim atau 1.236 mahasiswa dari Indonesia. 47 tim atau 141 mahasiswa telah lolos seleksi awal untuk bertanding di tingkat internasional.

Mereka adalah mahasiswa tingkat S1 dan MBA dari berbagai universitas terkemuka seperti, Magister Manajemen UI, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Prasetiya Mulya, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Universitas Gajah Mada dan Universitas Padjadjaran.

Untuk kategori undergraduate (S1), juara pertama adalah dari Maramra University (Turkey). Peringkat kedua diraih tim dari Universite Mc Gill (Canada) dan peringkat ketiga diberikan secara khusus kepada dua tim yaitu, tim dari Universitas Indonesia (FEUI) dan tim dari Tambov State Technical University (Russia).

Sedangkan juara pertama untuk kategori MBA (S2) diberikan kepada tim dari Publitalia 80 (Italy). Peringkat kedua diraih tim dari Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico - Itam (Mexico). Sedangkan juara ketiga diraih oleh tim dari Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

Well, selamat bagi Tim Indonesia dan terus berprestrasi! (rou)

(rou)

Sukses dengan Wajar 9 Tahun, DIY Rintis Wajar 12 Tahun

YOGYAKARTA--MIOL: Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) mulai merintis program wajib belajar (wajar) 12 tahun, setelah wajar sembilan tahun tuntas dilaksanakan di seluruh kabupaten dan kota di provinsi ini, kata Kepala Dinas Pendidikan DIY Drs Sugito Msi, Rabu.

Menjawab pertanyaan Antara, ia mengatakan program wajar 12 tahun ini dilaksanakan bersama dengan empat provinsi lain yaitu DKI Jakarta, Bali, Sulsel, dan Sumut.

Program wajar 12 tahun, sebenarnya bisa dilaksanakan serentak oleh seluruh kabupaten/kota di DIY. Namun rencananya akan dilaksanakan minimal oleh satu kabupaten atau kota dulu, dan nantinya secara bertahap bisa dilaksanakan kabupaten lain sesuai dengankemampuan pemerintah kabupaten yang bersangkutan.

Kata dia, Pemkot Yogyakarta sejak dua tahun lalu telah menganggarkan melalui APBD untuk program wajar 12 tahun, dan disusul Pemkab Bantul mulai tahun ini. "Sedangkan Pemprov DIY merencanakan memberikan bantuan dana kepada pemkab atau pemkot untuk merealisasikan program ini," ujar Sugito.

Ia mengatakan berkaitan dengan rencana merintis program wajar 12 tahun, Pemprov DIY juga akan memberi bantuan yang disebut 'retrieval' yaitu siswa yang terpaksa keluar sekolah karena alasan ekonomi, akan ditarik untuk masuk kembali bersekolah dengan dibiayai pemerintah provinsi sebesar Rp2 juta per tahun per siswa.

Bantuan tersebut diberikan melalui sekolah berupa uang sekolah, dan ditambah pakaian seragam, sepatu serta alat tulis. Sumber dana bantuan itu berasal dari APBD Provinsi DIY.

Mengenai pemberian penghargaan "Widyakrama", Sugito mengatakan rencananya Gubernur DIY bersama sejumlah gubernur dan bupati lain dari seluruh Indonesia akan menerima penghargaan itu dari Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Penyerahan penghargaan itu akan dilakukan di Alun-alun Banten, 4 Mei 2006.

Penghargaan tersebut diberikan setiap tahun kepada bupati dan gubernur se Indonesia yang berhasil menuntaskan wajib belajar sembilan tahun. Provinsi DIY menerima penghargaan itu atas prestasinya menuntaskan wajib belajar.

"Keberhasilan wajar sembilan tahun merupakan keberhasilan seluruh komponen masyarakat Provinsi DIY, bukan hanya dunia pendidikan," tandas Sugito. (Ant/OL-03)

Free 12-years education in Muba, South Sumatra. When will Jakarta follow suit?


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Muba, Kabupaten Pertama Sekolah Gratis Di Indonesia

Kabupaten Musi banyuasin (Muba) , Provinsi Sumatera Selatan (Sumsel) di bawah Bupatinya Ir Alex Noerdin SH, telah banyak membuat terobosan yang termasuk populer. Di awal pemerintahannya Desember 2001, ia langsung menyentuh upaya peningkatan minat belajar masyarakat.

Sektor pendidikan dijadikannya sebagai suatu yang tidak boleh dilupakan begitu saja. Karena pendidikan akan menciptakan sumber daya manusia yang berkualitas dengan dicanangkannya program Muba Sejahtera 2006. Melalui pendidikan akan ditingkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat.

Alasan Alex itu ternyata begitu mengena. Ia telah menggratiskan anak-anak usia sekolah dari uang sekolah atau Sumbangan Pembangunan untuk Pendidikan (SPP). Awalnya, di tahun pertama ia memimpin yakni tahun 2001, Alex Noerdin, memberikan sekolah gratis untuk anak-anak yang bersekolah di sekolah-sekolah negeri.

Tetapi, mulai bulan Mei 2006 ini, Madrasah dan Sekolah Swasta sejak dari SD hingga sekolah lanjutan atas, kini semuanya gratis. Ini tentu menjadikan Kabupaten Muba, sebagai satu-satunya yang menggratiskan sekolah bagi anak usia sekolah untuk semua jenjang dan jenis baik negeri maupun swasta.

Kabupaten Muba memiliki dana APBD sebesar Rp 1,2 triliun, dan APBD murni adalah sekitar Rp 800 juta. Alex mengaloksikan sekitar 27 persen dari dana anggaran belanja daerahnya yang Rp 800 juta itu untuk sektor pendidikan.

"Buktinya bisa dilakukan. Dan semua anak sekolah baik negeri maupun swasta bisa gratis mengikuti proses belajar dan mengajar,"katanya.

Bahkan, bukan itu saja. Pada Senin (8/5) lalu, di hadapan ribuan guru di Kota Sekayu, ibukota kabupaten Muba, dalam suatu diskusi yang menghasilkan suatu yang cukup berguna dan membantu masyarakat, adalah dengan cara bukan hanya menggratiskan anak sekolah di kabupaten itu, tetapi juga memberikan buku pelajaran dan buku tulis secara gratis kepada para siswa.

Prof DR Muhammad Surya, Ketua Umum Pengurus Besar PGRI (Persatuan Guru Republik Indonsia(PGRI) yang hadir saat hari pendidikan di Muba, 8 Mei 2006 , sebagai suatu yang luar biasa perhatian Bupati Alex Noerdin terhadap pendidikan di daerahnya.

"Sungguh, merupakan suatu yang luar biasa. Pertama di Indonesia Sekolah Gratis, adalah di Kabupaten Muba, Sumatera Selatan ini,"katanya.

Menurut Alex, kesemuanya yang dilakukan, tidak lain, adalah kemitmennya terhadap program yang telah dicanangkannya untuk Muba Sejahtera 2006.

Tetapi, ia juga yakni betul bahwa konsep dan program -program yang dilakukannya tidak secara langsung mengangkat derajat ekonomi secara material dengan meningkatkan langsung pendapatan masyarakat.

Tetapi, dengan sekolah gratis dan buku-buku gratis maka sebuah keluarga dalam masyarakat yang tak mampu untuk menyekolahkan anaknya, serta merta dengan kebijakan sekolah gratis akan terbantu.

"Seorang yang tadinya frustasi anak tak dapat sekolah, jadi tidak perlu mikir lagi. Pokoknya anak-anak Muba harus sekolah, dan biayanya gratis, ya begitu,"katanya.


Malas

Memang ada sebagian orang, mengatakan kebijakan seperti ini akan membuat anak-anak malas, karena toh tak naik kelas juga tahun depan akan gratis. Lalu, orang tua yang tadinya bekerja keras untuk mencari uang untuk menyekolahkan anaknya, akan malas, karena anaknya sekolah sudah ditanggung pemerintah Kabupaten Muba. Namun bagi Alex kebijakan ini adalah tepat.

Sebab, ia berpandangan, bahwa betapa banyaknya kini anak-anak di luar daerahnya, yang menjadi tukang ngamen, peminta-minta di lampu merah, atau bekerja keras ke sawah untuk membantu orang tua mereka dalam memperoleh uang untuk makan sehari-hari. Ia ingin keluarga miskin, sekalipun tak dapat dibantu secara langsung ekonominya, namun dengan adanya biaya sekolah yang diberikan pemerintah melalui program sekolah gratis, maka keluarga miskin tidak perlu lagi bersusah payah.

Mereka tinggal, hanya mencari nafkah untuk ekonomi saja, tanpa harus berpikir lagi biaya anak sekolah. Jika ribuan keluarga miskin yang bisa terbantu akibat program pendidikan tersebut, maka ribuan pula keluarga yang bisa terangkat derajat ekonominya tanpa harus lagi menyisihkan uang untuk sekolah anaknya.

"Keluarga-keluarga seperti itu memang sangat mengharapkan bantuan seperti ini. Mereka sangat terbantu tidak lagi cari uang sekolah, uang buku dan buku alat tulis. Semuanya sudah gratis," ujar Alex. [Pembaruan/Bangun Lubis]



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Oya in an Advertisement Telkom said that their Putting Internet on 70.000 schools in the Pedesaan! Good Job Telkom! I wish that they promote DSL Connection more so Indonesians can Go online rather than using Telkom Net Instan.

Uang yang ada jgn dikorupsi yah.... ntar kualat luh!



SUARA PEMBARUAN DAILY
Pemerintah Sulit Penuhi Anggaran Pendidikan 20 Persen

[JAKARTA] Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani Indrawati mengakui, sangat sulit memenuhi amanat undang-undang untuk mengalokasikan anggaran pendidikan sebesar 20 persen dalam APBN 2007. Kendati demikian, anggaran pendidikan dalam APBN-Perubahan 2006 akan dinaikkan.

"Tetapi besaran kenaikan akan kita lihat," tambah Menkeu, Selasa pagi.

Seperti diketahui, Mahkamah Konstitusi telah mengeluarkan keputusan agar amanat pengalokasian 20 persen bagi pendidikan dipenuhi.

Dalam perhitungan sementara Panitia Kerja RAPBN 2007, alokasi anggaran untuk Departemen Pendidikan Nasional sekitar Rp 42 triliun. Jumlah itu belum memasukkan anggaran pendidikan yang ada di beberapa departemen seperti Departemen Agama. Namun demikian tetap saja jumlahnya belum mencapai 20 persen.

Dari data yang diperoleh Pembaruan, bila anggaran pendidikan 20 persen dipenuhi pada 2007, maka dibutuhkan alokasi sebesar Rp 94,74 triliun.

Menurut Ketua Panja B Panitia Anggaran DPR Hafiz Zawawi, Senin (5/6), pemerintah dan DPR sulit memenuhi alokasi 20 persen karena keterbatasan kemampuan keuangan negara. "Kita dihadapkan pada kepentingan lain yang sangat mendesak antara lain infrastruktur dan subsidi," ujar Hafiz.

Bila pemerintah tidak membayar cicilan pokok utang luar negeri pada 2007, barulah anggaran tersebut dapat dipenuhi. Dalam perhitungan sementara RAPBN 2007, penarikan pinjaman luar negeri diperkirakan sebesar Rp 31 triliun dengan jumlah cicilan pokok utang luar negeri yang harus dibayar tahun depan sebesar Rp 55,7 triliun.

Dalam pagu sementara RAPBN 2007, penerimaan dalam negeri diperkirakan sebesar Rp 678,2 triliun dengan rincian penerimaan perpajakan sebesar Rp 499,8 triliun dan penerimaan negara bukan pajak (PNBP) sebesar Rp 178,3 triliun.

Sementara untuk belanja pemerintah pusat sebesar Rp 240,2 triliun dengan rincian belanja pegawai sebesar Rp 94,9 triliun, belanja barang Rp 62 triliun dan belanja modal sebesar Rp 83,3 triliun.

Sedangkan alokasi sementara untuk subsidi sebesar Rp 89 triliun dengan rincian subsidi nonbahan bakar minyak senilai Rp 35,8 triliun dan subsidi BBM sebesar Rp 53,2 triliun. Untuk alokasi bantuan sosial pada 2007 direncanakan sebesar Rp 44 triliun dan belanja lainnya sebesar Rp 13,5 triliun.

Pergeseran

Menkeu menjelaskan, terjadi pergeseran asumsi makro ekonomi dari yang diusulkan semula dalam RAPBN 2007. Pertumbuhan ekonomi yang semula ditargetkan 6,2-6,4 persen, diasumsikan menjadi 6-6,5 persen. Nilai tukar rupiah terhadap dolar AS yang sebelumnya Rp 9.000-9.200/US$1, diubah menjadi Rp 9.000-9.500/US$1.

"Inflasi yang semula diasumsikan lima hingga tujuh persen, menjadi enam hingga delapan persen," ujar Sri Mulyani.

Sedangkan Sertifikat Bank Indonesia tiga bulan yang semula 8-9 persen menjadi 8,5-9,5 persen, harga minyak dalam negeri diubah dari perkiraan semula yakni US$ 55-58 per barel menjadi US$ 57-65 per barel.

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So sad, the "fat cat" using money where it supposed to be for education, for our next generation, the most important thing to make life better, Pak Pejabat...tolong dong, lihat rakyat yg gak "kebagian" pendidikan, give them change!

Cari Beasiswa ajah .. di http://www.duniabeasiswa.com :D

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to meet Monday with five bright Indonesian students who bagged four golds and one silver for the country at the 37th International Physics Olympiad.

Education Ministry spokesman Bambang Wasito Adi told the detik.com newsportal that Yudhoyono would meet the five students Monday afternoon at the presidential office.

The five are Pangus Ho from BPK Penabur 3 Christian High School in Jakarta; Irwan Ade Putra from State High School 1 in Pekanbaru; Jonathan Pradana Mailoa from BPK Penabur 1 Christian High School in Jakarta; Andy Octavian Latief from State High School 1 in Pamekasan, East Java; and Muhammad Firmansyah from Atthira Islamic Junior High in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

Jonathan was also named the "Absolute Winner" at the Olympiad by scoring the highest points for his experiment, beating out 386 participants from 84 countries in the July 8-16 competition in Singapore.

Junior high student Firmansyah's silver medal was equally impressive, team officials said, because he had been competing against more senior high students.

The prestigious event was officially closed Sunday morning in a ceremony at the Nanyang Institute of Technology, Singapore.

Although achieving below China, the country that took home the most gold medals -- at five -- in the senior level event, Indonesian team trainer Yohanes Surya said the medal tally was the country's best-ever result after winning two golds in 2005 and two in the 2004 Olympiad.

"We aim to beat China as the defending champion the next time, especially as China will play host and formulate the competition tests," he told Antara.

To compete at the event, members of the team left regular schooling for about a year to follow a tightly scheduled training program where they solve a range of tough physics problems.

Umar Hadi, the director of public diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry, said he was proud of the results achieved by the team.

"I am very proud of their achievements. One of them is still at junior high but managed to win a silver," he said from Singapore.

The Olympiad is part of the ministry's Duta Belia program, which helps bright youngsters compete overseas.

The program previously picked students for the Paskibraka -- the student flag-raising team for Independence Day commemorations at the State Palace.

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Based on the official website, Muhammad Firmansyah received bronze medal instead of silver.

The following is the official results, ordered based on highest overall mark.
:dance:

Gold Medallists
1;Mailoa Jonathan Pradana ;Indonesia
2;Yang Shuolong ;China
3;Halász Gábor ;Hungary
4;Wang Xingze ;China
5;Lee Men Young ;United States
6;Zhu Li ;China
7;Ho Pangus ;Indonesia
8;Kim Seong Min ;Korea, South
9;Braverman Boris ;Canada
10;Lee Byung Kun ;Korea, South
11;Chang Hsueh-Wen ;Chinese Taipei
12;Tung Henry ;United States
13;Throwe William ;United States
14;Zhang Hongkai ;China
15;Smolenski Tomasz ;Poland
16;Pei Dongfei ;China
17;Kim Min Gyu ;Korea, South
18;Wang Chun-Kai ;Chinese Taipei
19;Lin Yu-Wei ;Chinese Taipei
20;Panzer Erik ;Germany
21;Putra Irwan Ade ;Indonesia
22;Zorkin Sergey ;Russian Federation
23;Hwang Sung Soon ;Korea, South
24;Low Guang How ;Singapore
25;Tikekar Mehul ;India
26;Nazaroglu Caner ;Turkey
27;Eyvazov Azar ;Azerbaijan Republic
28;Jaroensri Ronnachai ;Thailand
29;Anghel Andrei ;Romania
30;Chodosh Otis ;United States
31;Kiselev Alexander ;Russian Federation
32;Asoudegi Nima ;Iran, Islamic Republic Of
33;Zorin Pavel ;Germany
34;Mahajan Raghu ;India
35;Fei Lin ;Canada
36;Latief Andy Octavian ;Indonesia
37;Zhang Alexander ;Australia


Silver Medallists
38;Lanery Suzanne ;France
39;Yu Su-Peng ;Chinese Taipei
40;Hofstadler Christian ;Austria
41;Gong Sherry ;United States
42;Demir Ahmet ;Turkey
43;Gholami Ehsan ;Iran, Islamic Republic Of
44;Popovic Marko ;Croatia, Republic of
45;Boger Evgeny ;Russian Federation
46;Pechal Marek ;Czech Republic
47;Najafov Najmaddin ;Azerbaijan Republic
48;Kónya Gábor ;Hungary
49;Chen Ming Xuan ;Australia
50;So Kin Ming ;Hong Kong
51;Pogorelyuk Leonid ;Israel
52;Hasanov Namiq ;Azerbaijan Republic
53;Tavafoghi Jahromi Hamid Reza ;Iran, Islamic Republic Of
54;Toprasertpong Kasidit ;Thailand


Bronze Medallists
55;Hajiyev Parviz ;Azerbaijan Republic
56;Hikita Tatsuyuki ;Japan
57;Kohani Shahab ;Iran, Islamic Republic Of
58;Stoica Bogdan ;Romania
59;Széchenyi Gábor ;Hungary
60;Firmansyah Muhammad ;Indonesia
61;Gerganov Georgi ;Bulgaria
62;Popov Anton ;Russian Federation
63;Hacker Bastian ;Germany
64;Imriska Jakub ;Slovakia
65;Vanovchi Eugeniu ;Moldova
66;Yoo Jee Soo ;Korea, South
67;Turcu Alexandru ;Romania
68;Bychkov Vladimir ;Kazakhstan
69;Shapourian Seyed Mohammad Hassan ;Iran, Islamic Republic Of
70;Sangtawesin Sorawis ;Thailand
71;Mostovykh Pavel ;Russian Federation
72;Meszéna Balázs ;Hungary
73;Ng Kwong Hei ;Hong Kong
74;Ponsukcharoen Umnouy ;Thailand
75;Otgonbaatar Myagmar ;Mongolia
76;Kortchemski Igor ;France
77;Petrashyk Andriy ;Ukraine
78;Phaiboonpalayoi Chonpatin ;Thailand
79;Klymko Yaroslav ;Ukraine
80;Batkilin Itshac ;Israel
81;Molnár András ;Hungary
82;Tomalak Oleksandr ;Ukraine
83;Lykhachov Vitaliy ;Ukraine
84;Radicevic Djordje ;Serbia, Republic of
85;Chan Ching King ;Hong Kong
86;Lee Arthur ;Singapore
87;Hajiyev Elnur ;Azerbaijan Republic
88;Ford Peter ;United Kingdom
89;Wahl Thorsten ;Germany
90;Nguyen Dang Phuong ;Vietnam
91;Motloch Pavel ;Czech Republic
92;Cheng Justin ;Singapore
93;Tanaka Yoshiki ;Japan
94;Zhuhrou Aliaksandr ;Belarus
95;Genc Hakan Ahmet ;Turkey
96;Ravi Harish ;India
97;Peruzzi Marco ;Italy
98;Sitaram Krithin ;Singapore
99;Huang Po-Hao ;Chinese Taipei
100;Tanizaki Yuya ;Japan
101;Rees Jonathan ;United Kingdom
102;Pham Tuan Hiep ;Vietnam
103;Jha Divyanshu ;India
104;De Sousa Coelho Flavio ;Portugal
105;Tanttu Tuomo ;Finland
106;Kaifosh Patrick ;Canada
107;Nidaiev Iurii ;Ukraine
108;Tran Xuan Quy ;Vietnam
109;Ho Wen Wei ;Singapore
110;Zlebcik Radek ;Czech Republic
111;Madzhunkov Yordan ;Bulgaria
112;Marziali Bermudez Mariano ;Argentina
113;Hrda Marcela ;Slovakia
114;Sakovich Uladzimir ;Belarus
115;Zaleskas Vladas ;Lithuania
116;Komar Dzmitry ;Belarus
117;Kaliada Dzianis ;Belarus
118;Dafinca Alexandru ;Germany
119;Stril Arthur ;France
120;Georgescu Alexandru Bogdan ;Romania
121;Uusitalo Jaakko ;Finland
122;Gruslys Audrunas ;Lithuania
123;Hochberg Gal ;Israel
124;Mihailescu Ion Gabriel ;Romania
125;Lee Tak Man Desmond ;Hong Kong
126;Ipsen Asger Cronberg ;Denmark
127;Rambhia Neha ;India
128;Yin Albert ;Australia
129;Liu Jinyang ;United Kingdom
130;Brell Jordan ;Australia
131;Piatecki Swann ;France
132;Petri Andrea ;Italy
133;Subashki Georgi ;Bulgaria
134;Musegaas Paul ;Netherlands
135;Pierazzo Nicola ;Italy
136;Uuganbayar Otgonbaatar ;Mongolia
137;Shayari Amir ;Israel
138;Smital Petr ;Czech Republic
139;Aleksandrov Veselin ;Bulgaria
140;Vidmar Matija ;Slovenia
141;Lanthaler Simon ;Switzerland
142;Sousa Martins Soares Barbosa Rui Miguel ;Portugal
143;Imenov Sultan ;Kyrgyzstan
144;Sulaev Azat ;Kyrgyzstan
145;Pfeifer Lucy ;Australia
146;Nozoe Takashi ;Japan
147;Nenning Andreas ;Austria
148;Faeber Raphael ;Switzerland
149;Dajac Carlo Vincienzo ;Philippines
150;Kostanyan Aram ;Armenia
151;Badowski Tomasz ;Poland
152;Farace Alessandro ;Italy
153;Pham Huu Thanh ;Vietnam
154;Kaipov Yermek ;Kazakhstan
155;Hydyrov Islam ;Turkmenistan
156;Stucki Kaspar ;Switzerland
157;Low Ching Hwa ;Malaysia
158;Khureltulga Dashdavaa ;Mongolia
159;Delic Uros ;Serbia, Republic of
160;Kam Chon Fai ;Macau
161;Kahn Florian ;France
162;Castillo Hernandez Juan Camilo ;Colombia
163;Arazmedov Mekan ;Turkmenistan
164;Sabanskis Andrejs ;Latvia
165;Buffing Maarten ;Netherlands
166;Norris Matthew ;United Kingdom
167;Kanev Svilen ;Bulgaria
168;Mackay Michael ;United Kingdom


Honourable Mentions
167;Mazeliauskas Aleksas ;Lithuania
168;Murashita Yuto ;Japan
169;Mahmood Fahad ;Pakistan
170;Tushaj Ersilio ;Albania
171;Michal Gawronski ;Poland
172;Krasauskas Lukas ;Lithuania
173;Okan Melih ;Turkey
174;Susic( Vasja ;Slovenia
175;Stucki Ramon ;Switzerland
176;Wong Wa Kit ;Hong Kong
177;Ivanovskis Glebs ;Latvia
178;Konczer Jozef ;Slovakia
179;Levchenko Pavel ;Kazakhstan
180;Bzdusek Tomas ;Slovakia
181;Zadnik Gašper ;Slovenia
182;Busoni Giorgio ;Italy
183;Sobczyk Marcin ;Poland
184;Peresini Peter ;Slovakia
185;Vesterinen Visa ;Finland
186;Scholle Marek ;Czech Republic
187;Reboulgas De Medeiros Renato ;Brazil
188;Štikonas Andrius ;Lithuania
189;Gritschacher Simon Philipp ;Austria
190;Gomilšek Matjaž- ;Slovenia
191;Irwin Karl ;Ireland
192;Frisk Kockum Anton ;Sweden
193;Goh Boon Chong ;Malaysia
194;Alcain Pablo Nicolas ;Argentina
195;Karaiskos Efthymios ;Greece
196;Margaryan Arman ;Armenia
197;Pavlovic Marko ;Serbia, Republic of
198;Larsen Rasmus Normann ;Denmark
199;Pavlin ŽIga ;Slovenia
200;Polaz Andrei ;Belarus
201;Trudeau Devin ;Canada
202;Van Abswoude Jasper ;Netherlands
203;Barbed Martin Iqigo ;Spain
204;Legner Markus ;Austria
205;Plamadeala Eugeniu ;Moldova
206;Bandaragoda Tharidu ;Sri Lanka
207;Ghioldi Esteban Agustin ;Argentina
208;Ortega Neil John ;Philippines
209;Esakia Andria ;Georgia
210;Timnat Erez ;Israel
211;Trawinski Arkadiusz ;Poland
212;Vlassov Aleksei ;Estonia
213;Efthymiou Marinos ;Cyprus
214;Stepanenko Maksim ;Kyrgyzstan
215;Heidelberg Mihkel ;Estonia
216;Aliaj Ilirjan ;Albania
217;Alencar Sobreira Fernando Wellysson ;Brazil
218;Kuusela Mikael ;Finland
219;Verhovtsov Mihhail ;Estonia
220;Katus Jaan ;Estonia
221;Haas Holger ;Estonia
222;Greljo Admir ;Bosnia and Herzegovina
223;Bogfjellmo Geir ;Norway
224;Rehn Casierra Jorge Armando ;Brazil
225;Rakusch Christian ;Austria
226;Khoo Kent Loong ;Malaysia
227;Charlene Bong Yin Siet ;Brunei Darussalam
228;Guimerans Medraqo Miguel ;Spain
229;Masset Paul ;Belgium
230;O'Driscoll Clare ;Ireland
231;Burovenco Igor ;Moldova
232;Helsen Mathias ;Belgium
233;Tshitoyan Vahe ;Armenia
234;Poma Chambi Oliver Marcio ;Bolivia
235;Zenlander Robin ;Sweden
236;Ntagkas Ioannis ;Greece
237;De Franga Andri Felipe ;Portugal
238;Saevarsson Freyr ;Iceland
239;Wong Wan Chap ;Macau
240;Andreasson Martin ;Sweden
241;Gonzalez De Buitrago Burgoa Alvaro ;Spain
242;Kitenbergs Guntars ;Latvia
243;Solea Anastasia ;Cyprus
244;Muy Sokseiha ;Cambodia
245;Coban Belemir ;Turkey
246;Fernandez Gaspar Francisco ;Spain
247;Mikkel Plagborg-Moeller ;Denmark
248;Rodriguez Nayeli ;Mexico

Berikut ini sedikit cerita yang berkesan dari hasil IPHO 2006, Singapore.

1. Waktu upacara pembagian medali, Dutabesar kita duduk disamping para dutabesar dari berbagai negara seperti filipina, thailand, dsb. Waktu honorable mention disebutkan, ternyata tidak ada siswa Indonesia.
Dubes-dubes
bertanya pada dubes kita (kalau diterjemahkan) "kok nggak ada siswa Indonesia". Dubes kita tersenyum saja. Kemudian setelah itu dipanggil satu persatu peraih medali perunggu. Ada yang maju dari filipina, thailand, kazakhtan dsb. Lagi-lagi dubes negara sahabat bertanya "kok nggak ada siswa Indonesia?" Kembali dubes kita tersenyum. Dubes kita menyalami dubes yang siswanya dapat medali perunggu.
Kemudian ketika medali perak disebut, muncul seorang anak kecil (masih SMP) dengan peci dengan mengibarkan bendera kecil, dan namanya diumumkan Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim...dari Indonesia... Saat itu dubes negara sahabat kelihatan bingung, mungkin mereka berpikir "nggak salah nih...". Ketika mereka sadar, mereka langsung mengucapkan selamat pada dubes kita. Tidak lama kemudian dipanggil mereka yang dapat medali emas. Saat itu dubes negara sahabat kaget luar biasa, 4 anak Indonesia maju ke panggung berpeci hitam dengan jas hitam, gagah sekali. Satu persatu maju sambil mengibar-ngibarkan bendera merah putih . Mengesankan dan mengharukan. Semua dubes langsung mengucapkan selamat pada dubes kita sambil berkata bahwa Indonesia hebat.
Tidak stop sampai disitu. ketika diumumkan "the champion of the International
physics olympiade XXXVII is......."
"Jonathan Pradhana Mailoa". Semua orang Indonesia bersorak. Bulu kuduk merinding.... Semua orang mulai berdiri, tepuk tangan menggema cukup lama...
Standing Ovation....Hampir semua orang Indonesia yang hadir dalam upacara itu tidak kuasa menahan air mata turun. Air mata kebahagiaan, air mata keharuan.... Air mata kebanggaan sebagai bagian dari bangsa Indonesia yang besar.....Segala rasa capai dan lelah langsung hilang seketika... sangat mengharukan....

2. Selesai upacara, semua orang menyalami. Orang Kazakhtan memeluk erat-erat sambil berkata "wonderful job..." Orang Malaysia menyalami berkata "You did a great job..." Orang Taiwan bilang :"Now is your turn..." Orang filipina:"amazing..." Orang Israel "excellent work..." Orang Portugal:"
portugal is great in soccer but has to learn physics from Indonesia", Orang Nigeria :"could you come to Nigeria to train our students too?" Orang Australia :"great...." Orang belanda: "you did it!!!" Orang Rusia mengacungkan kedua jempolnya.. Orang Iran memeluk sambil berkata "great wonderful..." 86 negara mengucapkan selamat... Suasananya sangat mengharukan... saya tidak bisa menceritakan dengan kata-kata...
3. Gaung kemenangan Indonesia menggema cukup keras. Seorang prof dari Belgia mengirim sms seperti berikut: Echo of Indonesian Victory has reached Europe!
Congratulations to the champions and their coach for these amazing successes!
The future looks bright....
Marc Deschamps.
Ya benar kata Prof. Deschamps, kita punya harapan....
Salam
Yohanes
(Silahkan diforward)

IMO its better to kuliah in Indonesia rather than Pakistan
Yeah, our education is much much better then Pakistan. India I could understand, since they have a great business and IT programs.

August 03, 2006 17:20 PM

Freer Flow Of Books Between M'sia, Indonesia, Brunei


PUTRAJAYA, Aug 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei have agreed to look into the possibility of facilitating a freer movement of books among them.

Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said this was decided last Monday when he was in Indonesia for a ministerial-level meeting involving the three countries.

The meeting was aimed at strengthening the Malay language at the international stage.

"In the borderless world, it is quite impossible to restrict the traffic of books especially among the three countries, namely Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei," Hishammuddin said.

He said Indonesia's Education Minister Prof Dr Bambang Sudibyo had agreed to look into this and so did Brunei's communications minister who represented their education minister at the meeting.

Hishammuddin said Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka had long fought for the freer movement of books and Indonesia's willingness to look into this would boost the republic's book industry.

If implemented, Malaysian publishers would also be able to penetrate the Indonesian market of about 200 million people, he said.

The three countries would have to amend their laws that currently prohibit free movement of books into their countries, he told reporters after receiving a courtesy call by Eritrean Development Minister Dr Woldai Fultur at his office here today.

At the same press conference, Dr Woldai said the main reason for the visit was to establish a collaboration on human capital development between the Ministry of Education here and the Ministry of Education in Eritrea.

"We have discussed a broad area of development and in the area of education, I hope that will iniatiate a collaboration in curriculum development and teachers' education.

"As you all know, teachers' education is critical for quality education and Malaysia in my view, is advanced in that area and Eritrea can learn from Malaysia," he said.

-- BERNAMA

Government increased the budget for education in year 2007. I don't know the exact number yet and the increase compared with year 2006, suarapembaruan.com is still loading the news ;)

BTW, anyone knows how much budget for education in other ASEAN countries --in percentage from total anual budget?

Indonesia behind the learning curve
By Bill Guerin

JAKARTA - Indonesia is arguably Asia's least well-educated country, and the
government is largely to blame. With 30% of its 242 million population
school-aged, the world's largest Muslim country ranks lowest among its Asian
neighbors in terms of public education expenditure.

A minuscule 0.03% of the Indonesian workforce has earned a university
degree,
according to government statistics. Only 39%

of 12-to-15-year-olds ever make it to secondary school. Addressing a major
world conference this month on training and development in Kuala Lumpur,
Telkom Indonesia chairman Tanri Abeng lamented that more than 80% of
Indonesians have only a primary-school education.

With a record 40 million people unemployed, the education system's failure
means that Indonesia's pool of unskilled and increasingly unemployable labor
is growing exponentially. That's bad economic and social news for a country
that nearly a decade after the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis is still
straining to recover from the economic adversity and displacement.

Indonesia has in recent years witnessed a worrying process of
de-industrialization, with massive foreign divestment in many of the
export-oriented industries that drove the country's spectacular economic
growth throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 2003, foreign investors
pulled US$597 million out of the country, according to a recent report by
the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Nowadays, the availability of low-cost labor has only a limited bearing on a
country's ability to attract foreign capital, particularly in
knowledge-based
Western industries. The UNCTAD report notes that future foreign-investment
flows to top developing countries in Asia will increasingly go toward
so-called human-capital-intensive industries. The likely high-growth
industries of the future, such as information technology and biotechnology,
require an increasingly skilled labor force.

Moreover, Southeast Asia's fragmented markets are a tougher sell nowadays
with
foreign investors in light of China's and India's growth potential, where
untapped unified markets present huge economies-of-scale benefits for
multinational manufacturers. In human-capital terms, Indonesia is now viewed
less favorably as a foreign-investment destination than Thailand, Singapore
and arguably even Vietnam.

Part of that perception, no doubt, can also be chalked up to Indonesia's
aging
infrastructure, its unpredictable legal system and the lingering threat of
terrorist attacks against Western targets. At the same time, Indonesia's
decrepit education system and its woefully unskilled labor force are
emerging
as the largest deterrent to desperately needed new foreign investments.

Poverty of learning
In 2003, Indonesia's education spending stood at about 1.5% of gross
domestic
product (GDP), compared with 5.3% in South Korea and 2.8% in comparatively
underdeveloped Vietnam, according to World Bank data. Thailand, which spends
3.7% of GDP on education, announced this week plans to increase that to
4.5%-5% beginning next year to improve Thai students' analytical abilities.

This year China will spend 13% of its total national budget on education,
India 12%, the Philippines 17%, Malaysia 20%, Hong Kong 23% and Thailand
27%.
Indonesia's education budget this year, in comparison, represents less than
10% of the government's budget, while the draft budget for 2007 proposes a
tiny upgrade to 10.2% of total national spending.

Those meager allocations are in effect bankrupting Indonesia's public
education system. For instance, in 2005 the cost of education was Rp71
trillion (US$7 billion), well above the Rp21.38 trillion allocated by the
state budget, according to official statistics. A constitutional amendment
in
2002 decreed that the government must spend 20% of the annual budget on
education - but politicians have been slow to follow up.

Officials say they plan to increase education spending to 14.7% in 2007, as
part of a phased plan to achieve the constitutionally mandated 20% by 2009.
But as with previous governments, spending on roads, bridges and power
stations has once again taken precedence over education under President
Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono's administration.

Indonesia's education failures are grounded deep in history. National
founder
president Sukarno favored a system of mass political education, aimed at
unifying the population rather than empowering them with employable skills.
Under president Suharto, a compulsory nine-year education program was
implemented, but the education system still completely failed to meet the
needs of a modern workforce.

Now government funding is concentrated at the primary-school level, where
enrollment rates have jumped from 62% in the early 1970s to about 95% today.
Yet the lack of a modern curriculum and capable teachers is holding back
Indonesia's most ambitious students and in turn the country's future
economic
prospects.

Across the board, rote learning is emphasized over the development of
critical
thinking skills. Sector specialists say less than half the country's
primary-school teachers and two-thirds of secondary-school teachers possess
even the minimum qualifications required to teach effectively. Instructor
absenteeism on any given day is reportedly about 20%.

Most of the country's 3 million teachers and university lecturers moonlight
to
supplement their income. That's because pay scales, set by the government,
start at a low Rp1.5 million ($165) a month for schoolteachers and Rp3
million
($330) for college lecturers. According to a recent Ministry of Education
survey, about 80% of schoolteachers take on outside jobs to bolster their
incomes - to the detriment of their commitment to public-school students.

This inattentiveness was recently exemplified in the failing results of a
basic placement examination taken by thousands of graduating high-school
students who had already been accepted for university places. Of the
privileged few who do make it to university, graduates are criticized by
employers for their lack of analytical skills and inability to solve
problems
- hardly surprising given the political emphasis of the national curriculum.

Worryingly, it appears the situation is set to deteriorate. In Indonesia,
families are free to send their children to state, private or Islamic
schools,
yet the spiraling costs of education and related expenses have recently
caused
a growing number of dropouts.

Last year the government tried to cushion the effect of fuel-price increases
on education enrollment through the so-called Bantuan Operasional Sekolah
(BOS) program, which was designed to help cover the cost of tuition,
registration, books and exams for needy children aged between six and 15
years. Yet according to Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW), schools still
charged most parents for these items, and in any case, the increased costs
of
transport for schoolchildren after the abolition of fuel-price subsidies has
largely negated any of the BOS benefits for parents.

Indonesia is widely ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in Asia, and
state schools are badly plagued by embezzlement and bribery. The Indonesian
Coalition for Education claims that corruption permeates the national
education system, where budgets earmarked for educational purposes are
seldom
fully used for school purposes and instead end up in the pockets of
institutions' administrators, it contends.

For instance, it notes that textbooks and uniforms are marked up for sale to
pupils, and teachers often give low marks in examinations to make students
sit
for repeats, which, of course, the students have to pay for. Contractor fees
for school-building repairs and improvements are chronically inflated.

Islam fills the gap
Significantly, the state's education failure has opened the way for cheaper
Islamic-oriented education. Recent estimates suggest that as many as 20% of
Indonesia's school-aged children are enrolled in Islamic schools. And
enrollment rates are increasing by about 7% every year, though education
experts say the quality of instruction and emphasis on religious studies
mean
most Islamic-school graduates will lack the skills needed to participate in
a
competitive job market.

The government funds 10% of the secular Islamic day schools, or madrasahs,
and
an even larger portion of the traditional Islamic boarding schools, known
locally as pesantrens. Pesantrens played a key role in national education
before and during the early years of independence in the 1950s, but six
decades later the standards, curricula and instruction methods are widely
considered even lower than at state schools.

Attended by an estimated 2 million pupils, most pesantrens are in rural
areas
and under the direction of Muslim scholars. The standard pesantren syllabus
includes teaching blocks for an understanding of the Koran, the Arabic
language and Islamic law, as well as Muslim traditions and history.

Indonesia's 38,500 madrasahs enroll 21% of all students at the
junior-secondary level, according to statistics compiled by the Asian
Development Bank (ADB). In general, madrasahs serve the rural poor and are
most active in isolated areas that offer few other educational
opportunities.

These are often in areas of the country affected by chronic unemployment and
poverty, a desperate mix that radical Islamic groups have been known to
exploit for recruits to their sometimes violent causes. Madrasahs provide
schooling for an estimated 5.7 million students nationwide, or 13% of all
school-age students and more than half of madrasah students are children of
farmers and laborers.

Foreign donors, for their part, are trying to help fill Indonesia's learning
gap. The ADB has worked with madrasahs since the mid-1990s, aimed mainly at
integrating their curriculum with the secular national education system. So,
too, has the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
through a $157 million program aimed at modernizing Islamic schools through
teacher training and updating curriculum to include lessons relevant to the
workplace. Those efforts, however, have so far met with only limited
success.

Notably, USAID in 1997 had prepared to close down its Indonesia-based
operations on expectations that the then rapidly growing country no longer
needed foreign aid. Now, Indonesia desperately needs to attract new foreign
investments to rejuvenate growth and employ its vast, underemployed
population. But without substantial domestic investment in human capital,
those foreign investments likely won't arrive, and Southeast Asia's largest
economy's prospects just grow dimmer and dimmer.

Bill Guerin, a Jakarta correspondent for Asia Times Online since 2000,

Inilah wajah pendidikan kita. Catat baik2 dua nama ini, orang yang ada dibelakang semua ini:
H.L. Said Ruphina: Rektor IKIP Mataram,
H.L. Azhar: Ketua Yayasan Pembina IKIP Mataram


Penyerangan
Ketika Preman Masuk Kampus

Muhammad Ridwan; Saat Dievakuasi dari Lokasi Penganiayaan (GATRA/Chintia Ayu)Kalau preman dijadikan tenaga keamanan kampus, ya, alamat bakal runyam. Itulah yang terjadi di kampus IKIP Mataram, Nusa Tenggara Barat. Tengok saja, aksi demo mahasiswa dihadapi dengan badik, pentungan, dan rantai motor. Buntutnya, satu mahasiswa tewas, tiga terluka. Lainnya kocar-kacir ketakutan.

Aksi demo itu memang berbenturan langsung dengan "preman kampus". Selasa sore pekan lalu itu, 30-an mahasiswa berorasi di tengah lapangan IKIP Mataram. Mereka menolak keberadaan preman yang bercokol di kampusnya dengan label sebagai tenaga pengamanan.

"Kampus ini milik mahasiswa, tetapi kenapa ada preman? Kami menuntut pencabutan SK pengamanan kampus!" seru Suratman, Ketua Badan Eksekutif Mahasiswa (BEM) IKIP Mataram, melalui megafon. Para mahasiwa menimpali: "Kami minta rektor tidak menggunakan tenaga pengaman di luar aparat keamanan resmi!"

Sudah beberapa pekan ini, tenaga pengamanan non-satpam itu ditempatkan di lingkungan kampus yang terletak di Jalan Pendidikan, Mataram, tersebut. Yang punya gawe, pihak Yayasan Pembina IKIP itu sendiri, dengan menerbitkan SK pengangkatan. Entah, kenapa pihak yayasan tak menggunakan tenaga satpam resmi.

Keruan saja, mahasiswa gerah. Apalagi, mereka melihat tenaga pengaman berpakaian preman itu kelakuannya menyebalkan. "Di tengah kampus, mereka main remi dan domino. Siapa yang nggak kesel," ujar seorang mahasiswa kepada Gatra. Mahasiswa juga menilai tenaga pengamanan itu bersikap sangat tak bersahabat pada mereka.

Bermula dari menggereneng, kemudian mahasiswa melampiaskan kekesalannya melalui aksi demo. Sore itu, sebetulnya Rektor IKIP Mataram, H.L. Said Ruphina, baru saja meninggalkan kampus. Rektor yang baru dinas aktif pada akhir Juli lalu ini berencana menengok lokasi KKN mahasiswa di Lombok Barat.

Toh, mahasiswa tak mengurungkan niatnya berorasi. Tuntutan mereka lantang terdengar di seantero kampus. Panaslah hati para tenaga pengaman kampus. Lima orang di antaranya mendekat dan melontarkan kata-kata kotor kepada mahasiswa yang berunjuk rasa.

Dari lapangan, mahasiswa kemudian berusaha masuk ke gedung rektorat. Tapi dihadang lima tenaga pengaman tadi. Maki-makian kembali terlontar. Suasana kian panas. Beberapa menit berselang, sejumlah tenaga pengaman lainnya berdatangan dengan sepeda motor meraung-raung.

Menyadari gelagat buruk, para pengunjuk rasa membubarkan diri. Tapi agaknya para tenaga pengaman kampus kadung emosional. Dengan motor meraung keras, mereka memburu para pengunjuk rasa. Rekan mereka yang tak bermotor juga ikut memburu. Mereka mengacungkan pentungan, rantai motor, dan senjata tajam.

Seorang pengunjuk rasa, Zainal Mutakim, mengalami apes pertama kali. Lelaki yang baru dua hari diwisuda ini dihajar tanpa ampun saat berusaha menyelamatkan diri ke belakang kampus. Serangan empat lelaki --menggunakan badik dan rantai motor-- membuat paha kanan dan tangan kirinya luka parah, kelingking nyaris putus.

Tak ayal, serangan brutal ini membuat mahasiswa kocar-kacir menyelamatkan diri ke luar kampus. Para mahasiswi menjerit histeris, ada pula yang pingsan. Toh, serangan tak berhenti. Pengunjuk rasa diuber sampai ke rumah penduduk di gang sempit sekalipun.

Muhammad Ridwan, yang kedapatan bersembunyi di rumah warga, diseret ke luar gang. Dalam takutnya, menurut warga, Ridwan mencoba mengaku sebagai polisi. Namun usahanya ini sia-sia. Mahasiswa semester V fakultas MIPA jurusan kimia ini babak belur mendapat bogem mentah.

Pada saat bersamaan, kawanan tenaga pengaman lain berdatangan, ikut menghajar Ridwan. Tanpa ampun, menit berikutnya, Ridwan tersungkur dengan tiga luka tusukan di tubuhnya. Ia tewas setelah dibawa ke Rumah Sakit Umum (RSU) Mataram.

Melihat korban terkapar, para pengeroyok menghentikan serangannya. Tapi kawanan mereka yang lain masih terus menguber-uber mahasiswa. Dua mahasiswa, Heru dan Asmani, digebuki di depan Instalasi Gawat Darurat RSU Mataram. "Untung lukanya tak parah," tutur mahasiswa bernama Erwan.

Seorang warga juga tak luput dari serangan, meski hanya luka ringan. Mungkin ia dikira salah satu mahasiswa. Aksi penyerangan brutal itu baru berhenti setelah pasukan polisi turun tangan. Besoknya, polisi meringkus empat tersangka, semuanya anggota satuan pengamanan swakarsa di Mataram.

Mereka adalah Hiznadi, 19 tahun, Marzuki, 25 tahun, Marhan, 30 tahun, dan Nyoman Widiana, 40 tahun. Yang disebut terakhir adalah mantan anggota DPRD Kota Mataram (1999-2004). Para tersangka dijerat dengan Pasal 351 KUHP (penganiayaan berat) dan Undang-Undang Darurat Nomor 12 Tahun 1951.

"Mereka masih diperiksa intensif. Tidak tertutup kemungkinan jumlah tersangka bertambah," kata Kepala Bidang Humas Kepolisian Daerah Nusa Tenggara Barat, Ajun Komisaris Besar H.M. Basri, Jumat pekan lalu.

***
Aksi demo mahasiswa IKIP Mataram berlangsung sejak dua bulan silam. Penyebab awalnya adalah pencopotan Rektor Fathurrahim dan unsur pimpinan kampus oleh pihak Yayasan Pembina IKIP Mataram, pertengahan Juni lalu. Mahasiswa menolak keputusan itu. Begitu pun Fathurrahim.

Alasannya, pemecatan tidak sesuai dengan Statuta IKIP Mataram bahwa pengangkatan dan pemberhentian rektor harus melalui rapat yang melibatkan senat. "Kami akan bertahan dan mengajukan upaya hukum," kata Fathurrahim, didampingi kuasa hukumnya, Fathur Rozie.

Tak sekadar omong, Fathurrahim pun mengajukan gugatan terhadap SK pemberhentian yang ditandatangani H.L. Azhar, Ketua Yayasan Pembina IKIP, tersebut ke Pengadilan Negeri Mataram. Sembari menunggu proses hukum, Fathurrahim mempertahankan posisinya sebagai rektor.

Tapi pihak yayasan juga berkeras dengan keputusannya. Pihak yayasan kemudian melantik H.L. Said Ruphina sebagai rektor pengganti Fathurrahim. Aksi demo mahasiswa pun mulai berlangsung.

Akhir Juli lalu, rektor baru mengambil alih IKIP Mataram dari "pendudukan" rektor lama. Uniknya, dalam proses pengambilalihan itu, Rektor Said Ruphina dikawal oleh petugas Satuan Polisi Pamong Praja (Satpol PP) Kota Mataram.

Sejak itu, unjuk rasa mahasiswa semakin kencang. Beberapa kali mahasiswa sempat bentrok dengan petugas Satpol PP. Dua pekan setelah rektor baru berdinas aktif, ratusan mahasiswa kembali berunjuk rasa menentang kehadiran rektor baru.

Kali ini mereka tak cuma berorasi, juga melakukan penyegelan kampus. Beberapa ruang utama, seperti ruang rektor dan biro administrasi umum, disegel dengan kayu yang dipantek paku.

"IKIP Mataram saat ini dalam status quo. Tidak ada yang berkuasa di kampus ini, kecuali mahasiswa," koordinator lapangan, Hariyadi, menegaskan. Ketegangan sempat terjadi ketika petugas Satpol PP mencoba membubarkan mahasiswa. Namun tak sampai bentrok fisik.

Para pengunjuk rasa menegaskan, kampus IKIP dikuasai mahasiswa hingga adanya putusan dari Pengadilan Negeri Mataram menyangkut gugatan rektor lama Fathurrahim. Namun penyegelan ini tak berlangsung lama. Unjuk rasa dibubarkan, segel dilepas. Aktivitas perkuliahan kembali normal.

Mengingat maraknya unjuk rasa, pihak kepolisian sebetulnya sudah berkali-kali mengingatkan agar pengamanan kampus diserahkan pada polisi saja. Tetapi pihak kampus menolak. Alasannya, itu masalah internal kampus.

"Kondisi IKIP sudah membaik dan semua lancar," kata Rektor Said Ruphina dalam sebuah keterangan pers sebelum bentrokan berdarah itu meletup. Belakangan, pihak Yayasan Pembina IKIP malah merekrut sekelompok orang sebagai tenaga pengamanan kampus.

Kebijakan ini menambah jengkel mahasiswa. Mereka terperangah: sejak kapan kampus dikawal tenaga preman? Para mahasiswa pun kembali menggelar unjuk rasa, yang berakibat tewasnya Muhammad Ridwan.

Said Ruphina menyatakan keprihatinannya. Ia mengimbau masyarakat untuk tenang dalam menyikapi persoalan tersebut. "Kejadian ini di luar keinginan dan dugaan kita. Mari kita serahkan kasus ini ke penegak hukum," kata Said Ruphina.

Kematian mahasiswa asal Bima itu menimbulkan reaksi keras dari sejumlah mahasiswa yang tergabung dalam BEM Mataram. Usai pemakaman Ridwan di pemakaman Karang Medain, Mataram, ratusan mahasiswa dari perguruan tinggi di kota itu melakukan long march ke kantor gubernur.

Mereka menggelar orasi, meminta perhatian pemda sekaligus menuntut polisi mengusut tuntas kasus itu. Termasuk dari kemungkinan keterlibatan aktor intelektual. Dan mereka juga menuntut tanggung jawab pihak rektorat serta Yayasan IKIP Mataram.

Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta mencatat prestasi menggembirakan. Tiga kategori bidang keilmuan di universitas negeri tertua di Indonesia ini masuk jajaran 100 terbaik dunia berdasarkan survey Times Higher Education Suplement yang diterbitkan Times, 26 Oktober 2006.

Tiga kategori bidang keilmuan itu, bidang ilmu-lmu sosial peringkat ke-47 dari 100 universitas, kategori ilmu-ilmu biomedis peringkat ke-73 dan kategori ilmu-ilmu budaya dan humaniora masuk peringkat ke-70.

Untuk kategori bidang ilmu sosial UGM yang menempati urutan ke-47 memperoleh score 41,1, dua tingkat di atas Malaya University Malaysia dengan score 40,6 yang menempati peringkat ke-49. Sedang dalam bidang biomedicine UGM memiliki score 34,5, jauh di atas Utrecht University Nedherlands dengan score 31,2 di peringkat 91.

"UGM satu-satunya universitas di Indonesia yang masuk peringkat 100 besar. Ini sangat membanggakan karena perguruan tinggi yang disuervey mencapai 11.000," kata Rektor UGM Sofian Effendi, Selasa (31/10).

Survey menggunakan enam kriteria yaitu wawancara oleh kelompok bidang studi, persentase mahasiswa internasional, review oleh pewancara kerja, persentase staf pengajar internasional, rasio dosen dan mahasiswa serta indeks sitasi dosen. Bidang studi yang disurvey, ada enam bidang keilmuan yakni, science, technology, biomedicines, art and humanities, social science.

Menurut Sofian tahun depan pihaknya akan mengikutkan dua kategori untuk masuk kategori yang disurvey yaitu technology dan science. "Saya kira kita berpotensi karena bidang technology dan science UGM sudah banyak diakui dunia. Salah satunya teknologi geologi Geo hazard (study tentang gempa) yang saat ini dijadikan acuan dunia."

Daftar Ranking
_http://www.ugm.ac.id/downloads/top%20100%20in%20social%20sciences.pdf
_http://www.ugm.ac.id/downloads/top%20100%20in%20biomedicine.pdf

Rank Institution Country Score Citations per paper
1 Oxford University UK 100.0 2.6
2 Harvard University US 98.5 4.0
3 London School of Economics UK 94.9 –
4 Cambridge University UK 90.8 2.4
5 University of California, Berkeley US 89.2 3.1
6 Australian National University Australia 85.0 1.6
7= Stanford University US 81.2 3.2
7= Yale University US 81.2 3.5
9 University of Chicago US 75.3 3.5
10 Melbourne University Australia 73.0 1.7
11 National University of Singapore Singapore 72.2 1.5
12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 71.5 4.0
13 Princeton University US 69.2 3.4
14 Columbia University US 66.2 2.8
15 Tokyo University Japan 65.9 –
16 Monash University Australia 64.9 1.2
17= Peking University China 62.6 –
17= University of Toronto Canada 62.6 2.0
19 Sydney University Australia 62.2 2.3
20 McGill University Canada 58.6 1.9
21 University of New South Wales Australia 58.4 2.0
22 Cornell University US 56.7 2.6
23 University of California, Los Angeles US 55.7 3.3
24 University of Pennsylvania US 55.3 3.5
25 University of British Columbia Canada 53.7 1.9
26 Indian Institutes of Management India 53.3 –
27 Queensland University Australia 52.1 1.6
28 University of Michigan US 51.1 3.3
29 New York University US 50.7 2.9
30= Amsterdam University Netherlands 49.9 1.7
30= Hong Kong University Hong Kong 49.9 1.5
30= Warwick University UK 49.9 1.8
33 Auckland University New Zealand 49.5 1.5
34 Vienna University Austria 49.2 –
35 Carnegie Mellon University US 49.0 3.6
36 Kyoto University Japan 48.0 –
37 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 47.0 2.1
38= Catholic University Louvain (French) Belgium 46.7 1.4
38= Edinburgh University UK 46.7 1.8
40 Copenhagen University Denmark 45.2 –
41 Northwestern University US 45.0 3.0
42 Duke University US 44.1 3.1
43 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 43.9 1.4
44 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 43.4 1.8
45 University College London UK 42.7 2.5
46 RMIT University Australia 42.4 –
47 Gadjah Mada University Indonesia 41.1 –
48 University of Wisconsin US 41.0 2.3
49 Malaya University Malaysia 40.6 –
50 Paris I — Panthéon Sorbonne France 40.5 –
51 Tel Aviv University Israel 40.2 1.6
52 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 40.1 2.2
53= City University Hong Kong Hong Kong 39.6 1.5
53= University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) France 39.6 –
53= Stockholm School of Economics Sweden 39.6 –
56 Seoul National University South Korea 39.1 –
57 Jawaharlal Nehru University India 38.7 –
58 National Taiwan University Taiwan 38.3 –
59= Bologna University Italy 38.2 –
59= Fudan University China 38.2 –
61= Nanyang Technological University Singapore 38.1 –
61= Sussex University UK 38.1 1.9
63= Helsinki University Finland 37.6 1.8
63= Victoria University New Zealand 37.6 1.5
65 Imperial College London UK 37.5 –
66= Georgetown University US 37.4 2.2
66= Manchester University & Umist UK 37.4 2.0
68= Macquarie University Australia 37.2 –
68= Oslo University Norway 37.2 2.1
70 Heidelberg University Germany 37.1 –
71 Catholic University Leuven (Flemish) Belgium 37.0 1.8
72 Boston University US 36.8 3.0
73 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 36.6 –
74 Munich University Germany 36.5 1.9
75 Keio University Japan 36.3 –
76= University of Adelaide Australia 36.1 –
76= Free University Berlin Germany 36.1 –
76= Utrecht University Netherlands 36.1 2.2
79 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 36.0 –
80 King’s College London UK 35.6 2.2
81 Nottingham University UK 35.5 1.9
82 Maastricht University Netherlands 35.4 1.8
83 Pennsylvannia State University US 35.3 2.4
84= Bonn University Germany 35.0 –
84= Leiden University Netherlands 35.0 2.1
86 Delhi University India 34.9 –
87 University of Illinois US 34.7 2.2
88 Kobe University Japan 34.5 –
89 Johns Hopkins University US 34.2 2.9
90 HEC Paris France 33.9 –
91 Bristol University UK 33.8 2.8
92 Lancaster University UK 33.7 2.2
93= Trinity College Dublin Ireland 33.4 –
93= Massachusetts University US 33.4 2.1
95 School of Oriental and African Studies UK 33.3 –
96= Bocconi Italy 33.1 –
96= Glasgow University UK 33.1 2.2
98= La Trobe University Australia 32.8 2.0
98= University of Western Australia Australia 32.8 2.2
100 University of Texas at Austin US 32.5 2.4

Source: QS Ltd, Evidence Ltd
TOP100 IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

:cheers:

that's nice

Wow, I am very glad and proud as alumni of Gadjah Mada Uni (graduated from economic faculty, which is social science) He..he

Jakarta, Sebanyak 20 Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan di Malang, Jawa Timur, siap menjajal kehebatan WiMax untuk berselancar internet kecepatan tinggi dalam waktu dekat ini. Hal itu diungkap Country Manager Intel Indonesia Budi Wahyu Jati.

"Alat sudah datang. Kita tinggal menunggu keluarnya izin stasiun radio (ISR) yang sedang diurus untuk BTS di sekolah-sekolah itu. Harusnya sudah bisa jalan setelah Lebaran kemarin," ungkap Budi pada detikINET di Cilantro Lounge Wisma BNI 46, Jakarta, Rabu (8/11/2006).

WiMax merupakan teknologi transmisi data internet tanpa kabel yang memiliki jangkauan hingga 50 km, atau sekitar 17 kali lipat dibandingkan Wi-fi sehingga bisa menghemat infrastruktur base station secara signifikan.

Intel sebagai penyedia perangkat, tak sendirian dalam pilot project ujicoba teknologi last mile tersebut. Vendor prosesor itu pun bahu membahu bersama Indosat Mega Media (IM2), penyedia perangkat Airspan Network, serta Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (Depdiknas), demi menyukseskan program ini.

Budi mengatakan, untuk bisa mengujicoba teknologi WiMax pada 20 sekolah kejuruan pilihan Diknas di Malang itu diperlukan dua izin, yakni izin penggunaan frekuensi dan izin pemancar radio. Untuk izin penggunaan frekuensi, menurutnya, menggunakan frekuensi 2,3 GHz milik IM2 di daerah tersebut.

Dari segi peralatan, sudah disiapkan sebanyak 3 menara base transceiver station (BTS) WiMax yang menyebar di Malang dan 20 perangkat CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) di tiap sekolah sebagai penerima sinyal dari BTS tersebut (hotspot WiMax).

Untuk jalur internet di lingkup internal, menurut Budi, akan disediakan oleh Airspan. Sedangkan untuk jalur internet ke luar atau eksternal, fasilitas itu akan dipenuhi oleh IM2. "Saya rasa Desember tahun ini ujicobanya sudah bisa berjalan," tutur Budi penuh harap. (rou)
(rou/rou)

4 PTN Masuk 500 Besar Dunia, Undip Pecah Telor
Nograhany Widhi K - detikcom


Jakarta - Prestasi membanggakan kembali dicatat dunia pendidikan nasional. 4 Perguruan tinggi negeri (PTN) berhasil masuk peringkat 500 kampus terbaik dunia.

4 PTN itu adalah Universitas Indonesia (UI-Depok) yang menduduki peringkat 250, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB-Bandung) meraih peringkat 258, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM-Yogyakarta) berhasil menduduki posisi 270, dan Universitas Diponegoro (Undip-Semarang) pada peringkat 495.

"Saya bangga tahun ini 3 PT BHMN ternyata bisa menyodok papan tengah peringkat 500 dunia, dan Undip sudah pecah telor bisa masuk peringkat 500 besar dunia walaupun berada di peringkat 495," ujar Mendiknas Bambang Sudibyo di kantor Depdiknas, Jl Sudirman, Jakarta, Kamis (9/11/2006).

Untuk UGM, meski menduduki peringkat 270, untuk bidang studi ilmu sosialnya seperti Fakultas Ilmu Sosial Ilmu Politik, Fakultas Ekonomi, Fakultas Hukum dan Fakultas Psikologi masuk peringkat 47 dunia.

Sementara untuk fakultas-fakultas biomedicine, seperti Fakultas Kedokteran Umum, Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi, dan Fakultas Farmasi, masuk peringkat 74 dunia. Selanjutnya Fakultas Filsafat dan Fakultas Sastra masuk peringkat 70 dunia.

Mendiknas juga mengharapkan universitas negeri lain setingkat Undip bisa menyusul. Kampus-kampus tersebut yaitu Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB-Bogor), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS-Surakarta) , Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November (ITS-Surabaya) , Universitas Airlangga (Unair-Surabaya) , Universitas Hasanuddin (Unhas-Makassar) , Universitas Andalas (Unand-Padang) , dan Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU-Medan).

"Apalagi IPB yang kelasnya setara dengan UI dan UGM," tandas Bambang yang juga guru besar UGM ini.

Mendiknas juga mengharapkan PTN yang belum mencapai 500 besar dunia lebih agresif dalam memperkenalkan dirinya dalam skala internasional.

"Kalau mereka mampu menjalin silaturahmi akademik dan memperkenalkan diri, saya yakin mereka juga mampu masuk peringkat 500 besar dunia," harapnya.

Selain merasa bangga, Mendiknas mereview, pada saat krisis melanda negeri ini, PTN di Indonesia sempat hilang dari 100 besar perguruan tinggi Asia .
(fjr/nrl)

Tangerang city successfuly renovated all school.


SUARA PEMBARUAN DAILY
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Peningkatan Pendidikan Dipuji, Pemberantasan Kemiskinan Diuji

Anak-anak jalanan di Kota Tangerang sebagian terhimpun dalam Anak Langit, mendapat pelajaran membaca dan menulis dari sejumlah pemuda yang peduli terhadap keberadaan mereka. [Foto-foto Pembaruan/Dewi Gustiana]



edatangan seorang kepala negara ke sebuah kota, tentu bukan tanpa alasan. Demikian pula kedatangan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ke Kota Tangerang di awal tahun 2007 ini, tepatnya pada Rabu (3/1) lalu.

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono datang ke Kota Tangerang untuk meresmikan mega proyek yang menelan biaya sekitar Rp 216 miliar, pada Rabu (3/1) lalu.

Kota Tangerang layak bangga, sebab pada saat itu, Presiden berterima kasih kepada Wali Kota dan DPRD Kota Tangerang. Presiden berharap, apa yang dilakukan Kota Tangerang bisa dicontoh daerah lainnya.

Yang patut dicontoh itu adalah pembangunan kembali 220 sekolah dari semua tingkatan di Kota Tangerang, sehingga sangat layak digunakan untuk menimba ilmu.

Pemkot Tangerang diacungi jempol sebab dalam pembiayaan pembangunan 220 sekolah tersebut, pemda tidak mencari utang kepada bank, semuanya diambil dari APBD.

Bahkan, pemerintah pusat menjadikan pembangunan 220 sekolah itu sebagai percontohan secara nasional, terutama dalam kaitan standarisasi bangunannya.

Itulah buah manis program Pemkot Tangerang, yang sejak tahun 2005 memrioritaskan pembangunan sekolah-sekolah. Kini, di daerah itu, tidak ada lagi sekolah, dari SD hingga SMA, yang bangunannya jelek atau terancam roboh. Semua bangunan sekolah sudah cantik, rapi, dan nyaman untuk belajar.

Tak hanya anak-anak yang merasa senang di sekolah. Para orangtua pun menjadi lega karena mereka tidak perlu khawatir anak mereka tertimpa bangunan sekolah jika hujan tiba atau angin kencang melanda.

Maklum, pada umumnya tempat anak-anak mereka menuntut ilmu merupakan warisan dari bangunan Program Inpres di era Presiden Soeharto, tahun 1980-an dan belum pernah direnovasi sekalipun. Kini, bangunan sekolah di Tangerang berubah drastis. Bangunan yang kokoh terdiri dua lantai, kerangka atap baja dan ventilasi aluminium, lantainya pun dari keramik dan halamannya di konblok.

Semua ini memang tidak terlepas dari tekad kuat Wali Kota Tangerang, Wahidin Halim, yang awalnya prihatin atas laporan banyaknya sekolah roboh. Tahun 2004, rencana ini digulirkan.

Setelah mendapat persetujuan dan dukungan DPRD setempat, pembangunan dimulai tahun 2005 dan dilanjutkan hingga tahun 2006. Bahkan, untuk mendukung program ini, Pemkot menganggarkan lebih dari 50 persen APBD-nya untuk pendidikan serta kesehatan.

"Kalau bangunan saja sudah tak beres, bagaimana kita mau meningkatkan mutu pendidikan," kata Wali Kota kepada Pembaruan, ketika melontarkan rencana pembangunan sekolah-sekolah beberapa waktu lalu.

Kini, kerja keras dan keinginan untuk menyejahterakan rakyat lewat dunia pendidikan di Kota Tangerang tinggal memetik hasil.

Tak berlebihan jika Wali Kota Tangerang bersama aparatnya pantas mendapat bintang, seperti Citra Bhakti Abdi Negara, yang merupakan penghargaan atas pelaksanaan pelayanan publik, yang diserahkan Presiden pada Desember lalu.

Tentunya, penghargaan ini tidak membuat aparat Pemkot Tangerang lupa diri. Justru sebaliknya, menjadi pemicu untuk lebih baik karena sederet pekerjaan rumah sudah menanti.

Pemberdayaan masyarakat miskin, peningkatan pendapatan daerah, penyediaan sarana transportasi harus terus dipacu.


Masyarakat Miskin

Tahun anggaran 2007 ini, prioratis pembangunan di wilayah Kota Tangerang akan ditujukan kepada pemberdayaan masyarakat miskin, termasuk pemberian modal untuk pengembangan usaha.

Wali Kota Tangerang, Wahidin Halim mengatakan, strategi pembangunan Kota Tangerang tidak muluk-muluk. "Yang terpenting, pembangunan itu bisa menyentuh masyarakat banyak, sehingga kesejahteraan mereka meningkat," katanya.

Sejak tahun 2005 hingga 2006, lebih dari 50 persen APBD Kota Tangerang dihabiskan untuk sekolah dan program kesehatan. Kini, Wali Kota bersama DPRD setempat akan lebih memfokuskan pada masyarakat miskin.

Bagaimanapun, keberadaan Kota Tangerang, yang berbatasan langsung dengan DKI Jakarta, membawa dampak tersendiri pada lingkungan dan kehidupan masyarakatnya. Kota Tangerang jadi penuh sesak karena jumlah penduduk makin banyak.

Di sana, tumbuh berbagai perumahan mewah hingga sederhana. Tumbuh pula banyak pemukiman liar.

Lahan pertanian juga menyempit karena beralih fungsi menjadi lahan komersial. Kondisi jalan tidak seimbang dengan volume kendaraan, sehingga timbul kemacetan di berbagai titik.

Di beberapa wilayah di Kota Tangerang, kemiskinan penduduk terlihat cukup mencolok. Masyarakat urban yang hidup di pinggiran Kota Tangerang, tidak mampu mengikuti derasnya pembangunan.

Sementara untuk berusaha, mereka tidak mempunyai modal. Pada umumnya, mereka adalah pekerja nonformal, yang tidak mempunyai penghasilan tetap, bahkan banyak yang menjadi pengangguran.


Bandara

Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) Kota Tangerang mencatat, dua kecamatan di Kota Tangerang yang berada sekitar kawasan Bandara Soekarno-Hatta, yakni Kecamatan Neglasari dan Benda sebagai kecamatan yang penduduknya terbanyak masuk dalam kategori miskin.

Sebanyak 16.000 lebih warga miskin tinggal di Kecamatan Neglasari. Sementara jumlah penduduk di kecamatan itu sebanyak 92.552 jiwa, terdiri dari 21.960 rumah tangga. Kecamatan Benda juga pada kondisi yang nyaris sama. Jumlah penduduk miskin di daerah ini mencapai 8.000 jiwa.

Padahal, Neglasari dan Benda adalah dua kecamatan yang berbatasan langsung dengan Bandara Internasional Soekarno-Hatta, yang merupakan gerbang Indonesia.

Wali Kota Wahidin mengakui, pihaknya belum bisa sepenuhnya meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat miskin. Namun, dia menyayangkan pihak pengelola bandara, yang kurang memberikan perhatian kepada masyarakat sekitar lingkungannya.

Koordinator Bidang Diklat LSM Pattiro, Wawanudin meminta agar Pemkot Tangerang serius mengatasi kemiskinan secara sistematis di daerah sekitar Bandara Soekarno-Hatta. "Kemiskinan, kebodohan, dan ketertinggalan itu harus diberantas bersama antara pemerintah dan pengelola bandara," jelasnya.

Namun, PT Angkasa Pura (AP) II selaku pengelola Bandara Soekarno-Hatta menolak bila pihaknya dituding memiliki andil dan ikut bertanggung jawab atas ketepurukan ekonomi yang dialami warga sekitar bandara. "Itu sepenuhnya tanggung jawab Pemkot Tangerang. Kami hanya sekadar membantu lewat berbagai program, seperti Program Community Development (Comdep), Program Kemitraan dan Bina Lingkungan (PKBL), dan Program Yayasan Amal Zakat (PYAZ)," kata Kepala Cabang PT AP II, Kasmin Kamil, didampingi Sekretaris Perusahaan, Sudaryanto beberapa waktu lalu.

Menurut Kasmin, melalui Comdep, sarana dan prasarana pendidikan, tempat ibadah, serta kesehatan menjadi perhatian serius, terutama di 17 desa dan kelurahan dari lima kecamatan di sekitar kawasan bandara.

Tahun 2005 lalu, dana PKBL disediakan Rp 2,5 miliar. Sedangkan dana pinjaman lunak berjalan sejak tahun 2001 hingga sekarang, jumlahnya sudah mencapai Rp 11 miliar lebih.

Menurut Sudaryanto, hingga kini sedikitnya 320 warga sekitar bandara yang bekerja di sejumlah perusahaan, yang menjadi mitra usaha PT AP II.

Sementara itu, Jhon Alfred Nikijulu, Ketua Fraksi Partai Demokrat, yang juga anggota Komisi B DPRD Kota Tangerang mengatakan, tinginya angka kemiskinan di kawasan itu, menandakan program bina lingkungan yang diusung PT AP II belum berjalan sebagaimana mestinya. "Sejauh ini, kami belum melihat adanya gebrakan signifikan dari program Comdep. Jadi untuk apa sebenarnya program itu dibuat?" tandasnya.

Sementara, Yati Rohayati, Sekretaris Komisi DPRD Kota Tangerang menyatakan, selama ini sudah ada citra buruk bahwa kawasan sekitar bandara merupakan wilayah pinggiran dan terisolasi. "Pemkot harus berupaya menghilangkan citra negatif itu," katanya.

Oleh Koresponden "Pembaruan" Dewi Gustiana




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:applause: we need more people to be like Mr. Wahidin Halim

Do you know, beberapa hari yang lalu tragedi yang sama terulang lagi ??? IPDN (yang dulu namanya STPDN, terletak di JATINANGOR, Jawa Barat) kembali menimbulkan masalah....... Satu orang lagi telah TEWAS akibat dari kekerasan dan ke-"ego"-an, ke-"senior"itasan di dalamnya.... Masih inget, tragedi 2003 ketika beberapa praja STPDN tewas?????? Pernah ada liputan khusus SCTV nya " DI BALIK TEMBOK STPDN "

Ini beritanya ... SOURCE :JPNN

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IPDN Dirombak Total
09 April 2007 Pukul 08:43

Hari Ini SBY Panggil Rektor

JAKARTA (RP)- Akhirnya Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) memutuskan akan merombak total Institut Pemerintah Dalam Negeri (IPDN). Langkah SBY ini didukung sepenuhnya oleh Ketua Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (MPR), Hidayat Nurwahid.

Namun, Guru Besar Psikologi Universitas Indonesia Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono yang pernah melakukan penelitian untuk memperbaiki sistem pendidikan di IPDN mengeluarkan pernyataan lebih keras. Dia memberi dua obsi untuk SBY, perlu atau tidak lembaga IPDN itu.

Sedangkan Wakil Ketua Komisi I DPR Tosari Wijaja mendesak Komisi II segera mengagendakan forum khusus pertanggungjawaban Rektor IPDN dan segera memproses kasus ini kepada kepolisian.

Menurut Presiden, kematian praja asal Manado Cliff Muntu pekan lalu patut disesalkan. ‘’Hal ini tidak bisa ditoleransi lagi. Besok (hari ini, red) selain Mendagri ad interim memberikan laporan kepada saya, Rektor IPDN juga saya minta datang memberikan pertanggungjawaban atas kejadian itu dan sebelumnya,’’ kata SBY setelah doa bersama di Masjid Istiqlal, Jakarta, Ahad (8/4).

Dikatakan lembaga pendidikan seperti IPDN, seharusnya memberikan contoh yang baik tentang kehidupan senior dan yunior. ‘’Dua kali saya melantik praja di IPDN Jatinangor. Setiap kali pula saya pesankan agar kehidupan senior-yunior dibangun dengan konstruktif. Yunior menghormati senior dan senior mengayomi yunior,’’ kata SBY.

Dengan demikian, lanjut SBY, hubungan senior dengan yunior bukanlah hubungan kekerasan, kecemasan, dan kekuasaan seperti yang terjadi selama ini. Ini penting karena praja-paraja tersebut adalah calon pemimpin yang harus memberi tauladan yang baik pula.

SBY berjanji akan melakukan perubahan yang fundamental terhadap lembaga tersebut. Tentu setelah mendengar laporan dari Mendagri ad interim Widodo AS serta laporan lengkap tim investigasi. ‘’Kalau perlu kita set up baru dari lembaga pendidikan itu. Terlalu dini kalau hari ini saya katakana IPDN harus diapakan,’’ katanya.

Meski demikian, SBY belum berpikir untuk membubarkan IPDN. Meski desakan sangat kuat, SBY memahaminya sebagai bentuk kemarahan masyarakat yang harus dihargai. ‘’Saya paham amarah rakyat, tapi mari kita pikirkan secara jernih,’’ jelasnya seraya menambahkan bahwa sanksi bagi mereka yang lalai dan melakukan kejahatan harus ditegakkan.

SBY juga telah menelepon Noldy Muntu, ayah Cliff Muntu, melalui telepon Sabtu malam lalu. Selain menyampaikan belasungkawa, SBY juga mendengarkan saran dan masukan dari Noldy. ‘’Saya kagum atas ketabahan keluarga itu. Saya hormati sikapnya yang bisa menerima keadaan seraya meminta agar putra-putri bangsa yang sedang ikut pendidikan diselamatkan,’’ katanya lagi.

Sementara itu Guru Besar Psikologi Universitas Indonesia Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono, selaku orang yang ikut merencang reformasi STPDN-nama sebelum IPDN, pesimistis tradisi kekerasan di kampus tersebut bisa dihilangkan. '’Di kampus itu sistemnya adalah sistem militer. Tapi tidak ada pengawas militernya,’’ kata Sarlito.

Saat STPDN dipimpin sementera oleh Siti Nurbaya, pascakematian Wahyu Hidayat, September 2003 lalu, Sarlito yang saat itu menjabat sebagai Dekan Psikologi UI melakukan penelitian untuk memperbaiki sistem pendidikan di institusi tersebut. ‘’Yang saya rancang adalah cut off. Memisahkan angkatan baru dari seniornya,’’ kata Sarlito.

Dengan kejadian itu, Sarlito menilai cut off tidak dijalankan dengan baik. Selain itu, sistem pendidikan di IPDN susah dibenahi lagi. Sarlito berpendapat, kalau SBY ingin melakukan perubahan fundamental, sebaiknya dimulai dari mempertimbangkan masih perlu atau tidaknya lembaga IPDN.

Kalaupun pengawasan ditingkatkan, seperti misalnya usul Wapres Jusuf Kalla memasang 100 kamera CCTV, menurut Sarlito, juga tidak banyak membantu.

Sarlito melihat untuk menjadi camat atau PNS lainnya, tidak memerlukan kualifikasi seperti yang dibentuk IPDN. ‘’Berlebihan kalau akan menjadi camat saja harus belajar di kampus IPDN,’’ kata Sarlito. ‘’Untuk menjadi PNS unggulan, bisa melakukan sistem lain. Di Deplu saja tidak seperti itu kan,’’ kata Sarlito.

Jika Tak Berubah, Bubarkan Saja
Sementara itu Ketua MPR Hidayat Nurwahid sangat prihatin atas tewasnya mahasiswa IPDN (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri) Cliff Muntu yang diduga akibat tindak kekerasan seniornya di kampus pekan lalu. Itu diungkapkan Hidayat usai acara peringatan Maulid Nabi Muhammad SAW di Masjid Agung Bangkalan, Madura, Sabtu malam lalu

‘’Saya tidak habis pikir mengapa korban jiwa masih saja terjadi di IPDN,’’ tegas Hidayat.

Nurwahid mendesak agar ada perubahan total di IPDN. ‘’Kalau tetap tidak bisa mencetak pemimpin sipil yang bermartabat, sebaiknya IPDN dibubarkan saja. Kejadian serupa kan sudah berkali-kali, mengapa masih saja terulang,’’ katanya.

Seperti diberitakan, praja IPDN Cliff Muntu meninggal dunia diduga akibat penganiayaan beberapa seniornya. Polres Sumedang telah menetapkan tujuh praja senior tingkat III kini sebagai tersangka. Mereka langsung dipecat tidak hormat dari IPDN.

Menurut Hidayat, terulangnya peristiwa kekerasan itu sama sekali tidak menggambarkan sebuah lembaga pendidikan yang mempersiapkan pimpinan pada masa mendatang. Apalagi, level pimpinan yang akan dicetak adalah tataran seorang camat. Sebab, camat merupakan level yang harus bertemu dengan masyarakat.

‘’Kalau terbiasa tindak kekerasan seperti itu, bagaimana mereka akan bisa mengelola kepemimpinan di tingkat kecamatan?’’ tanya mantan Presiden PKS itu dengan mimik serius.

Mestinya, kata dia, IPDN harus malu terhadap lembaga pendidikan Akabri dan Akpol. Justru di lembaga kemiliteran itu pendidikannya tidak ada tindak kekerasan. ‘’Masak lembaga yang mencetak pimpinan sipil ada tindak kekerasan,’’ kritiknya.

Kejadian di IPDN, sambung dia, harus dikoreksi secara mendasar dan total. Mulai kurikulum, cara berpakaian, potongan, hingga rambutnya. Tujuannya, mereka menjadi pimpinan rakyat yang mampu mencerminkan demokratisasi, bukan kekerasan.

Mengenai kasus meninggalnya Cliff Muntu, Hidayat meminta tidak hanya praja yang terlibat diberi sanksi. Pimpinan lembaga tersebut, mulai tingkat rektor, harus bertanggung jawab.

Bagaimana dia (pimpinan IPDN, red) tidak tahu atas kejadian yang seperti ini? Mengapa sampai kecolongan? Itu suatu yang tidak masuk akal. ‘’Bangsa kita tidak boleh dihadirkan calon pemimpin yang ditempa dengan pola-pola kekerasan seperti itu,’’ tuturnya.

DPR Cepat Bertindak
Sementara itu Wakil Ketua Komisi I DPR Tosari Wijaja mendesak agar seluruh komponen Komisi II DPR yang fokus dalam bidang pemerintahan dan Komisi X yang bertanggung jawab dalam ranah pendidikan secepatnya mengambil langkah strategis guna mencari solusi tepat bagi penyelesaian kasus tersebut.

Mantan Wakil Ketua DPR itu meminta agar komisi II segera mengagendakan forum khusus pertanggungjawaban Rektor IPDN. ‘’Keterangan dia sangat penting. Rektor itu juga harus ikut bertanggung jawab,’’ tegasnya kemarin.

Tosari juga meminta peran aktif kepolisian untuk memeriksa rektor IPDN, mahasiswa, alumni, serta seluruh komponen lain di IPDN. ‘’Tidak mungkin rektor sama sekali tidak tahu perilaku kekerasan di kampus yang dipimpinnya, apalagi kekerasan itu terjadi di kampus,’’ ujarnya.

Mantan Ketua DPP PPP tersebut berharap agar komponen IPDN yang terdiri atas alumni, baik yang lulus maupun drop-out, mau bekerja sama secara jujur mengemukakan pengalaman buruk kepada kepolisian selama masa pendidikan.

Selain itu, dia kembali meminta agar pimpinan komisi X secepatnya memutuskan sikap pembatalan dan penghentian persetujuan DPR atas biaya pendidikan IPDN yang dibebankan kepada APBN. ‘’Bila DPR diam, berarti ikut merestui berlangsungnya kekerasan di kampus drakula berseragam yang dibiayai uang rakyat itu,’’ tegasnya.(tom/tra/aku/jpnn)

^^ what about STPDN?

is STPDN and IPDN are the same? btw gotta see PH's new campus.. cool!! it's talll!!

^^ STPDN has been renamed to IPDN

IPDN : Institut Pembunuh Dibayar Negara.. lol!! red somewhere..

Bukannya Institut Preman Dalam Negeri?

Gua bingung deh.. pejabat negara koq dididk secara militer. Bukannya negara demokrasi? Rakyat adalah penguasa, bukan militer.

^^ no its Institut Penganiayaan Dalam Negri

IPDN : Institut Pembunuh Dibayar Negara.. lol!! red somewhere..

CODE RED institute........ it not just "RED" somewhere...but RED everywhere ....

RI students win Australian law competition
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Indonesia has demonstrated to the international community it has the potential to produce high-caliber lawyers with its students defeating students from top universities in Asia and Australia to win an international law competition in Australia recently.

To win the 2007 International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot, students from the School of Law at the University of Indonesia defeated students from 17 universities in Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, China and Australia.

The competition was held between June 22 and June 26 in Melbourne, Australia.

"Aside from winning the competition, we also took home second prize for best written individual argument," the dean of the University of Indonesia's School of Law, Hikmahanto Juwana, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

Beside students from the University of Indonesia, the country was also represented in the competition by students from Bandung's University of Padjajaran.

Hikmahanto said the University of Indonesia team was made up of Ivan Nikolas Tambunan, Rivana Mezaya, Titis Lintang Andari, Ken Prasadtyo and Adithya Lesmana. Their head coaches were Giffy Pardede and Hanna Azkiya.

In the competition, a team of judges including Australian Federal Court judge James Allsop, London-based arbiter David Martin-Clark and international legal consultant Ron Salter established international maritime law dispute cases.

The students presented their arguments in oral and written form as though they were battling out real disputes at the International Court of Justice. The judges were able to interrupt students during the presentation of their arguments.

During the qualifying stage, the University of Indonesia defeated teams from Perth's Murdoch University, Hong Kong University, Malaysia's International Islamic University of Malaya and the National Law University of Jodhpur in India.

In the quarterfinal, Indonesia's team defeated the Mara University of Technology from Malaysia and in the semifinal defeated another team from Murdoch University.

In the grand final, which was held at the Australian Federal Court in Melbourne, the Indonesian team were victorious over competition host Victoria University.

This victory follows Hanna Azkiya's success in winning the title for best orator at the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC in March.

To win the award, Hanna defeated 290 fellow students from 95 universities worldwide, including students from the United States, England, Australia, Singapore, China and Malaysia.

In 2006, the university also won the region's prestigious Asia Cup law competition in Japan.

Many critics claim Indonesia lacks qualified lawyers to defend its interests in international disputes, pointing to the loss of the Sipadan and Ligitan islands to Malaysia in the International Court of Justice in 2002 as an example.

But this recent series of victories appears to indicate that Indonesia has the potential to win future international disputes. Indonesia's Navy has identified over a dozen islands along the country's border that could be claimed by other countries.

"These victories prove that the quality of Indonesian law students, especially those from the University of Indonesia, is at the same level or higher than other countries. We hope these students will become the backbone of Indonesia's legal system in the years to come," Hikmahanto said.


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Awesome!!! Seriously this is really great :D The better legal representatives we have, the better we get represented to the world! :)

^ that's mad awesome! woohoo

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Anggaran Pendidikan Diupayakan Terus Meningkat


09/07/2007 14:51:55 WIB
JAKARTA, investorindonesia.com
Pemerintah berupaya terus meningkatkan anggaran pendidikan hingga mencapai 20% dari total anggaran belanja negara.

"Porsi anggaran untuk pendidikan memang baru 11,8%, namun pemerintah terus berupaya meningkatkannya," kata Direktur Anggaran II Ditjen Anggaran Depkeu, Bambang Djasminto di Jakarta, Senin, ketika menerima sekitar 30 perwakilan guru dari Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia (PGRI) Jawa Timur yang menggelar aksi mengajukan sejumlah tuntutan.

Menurut Bambang, porsi tersebut merupakan porsi anggaran 2007 untuk Departemen Agama dan Departemen Pendidikan Nasional di luar gaji guru dan pendidikan kedinasan di kementerian/lembaga.

Ia menyebutkan, alokasi anggaran pendidikan secara nominal sebenarnya telah meningkat cukup besar. Pada tahun 2002 mencapai Rp 15,8 triliun, tahun 2003 mencapai Rp 20,54 triliun, 2005 mencapai Rp 27,1 triliun, dan tahun 2007 mencapai Rp 40,0 triliun.

"Untuk tahun 2008, pagu indikatif yang masuk untuk anggaran pendidikan mencapai sekitar Rp 48 triliun," katanya.

Hari ini sekitar 1.500 guru dari PGRI Jatim melakukan aksi mengajukan sejumlah tuntutan. Aksi dibagi dalam tiga kelompok yaitu di DPR, Depdiknas, dan Depkeu.

Paling tidak ada 4 tuntutan yang diajukan dalam aksi tersebut, yaitu mendesak/menuntut kepada pihak berwenang untuk segera merealisasikan anggaran pendidikan sebesar 20% dari APBN/APBD sebagaimana yang diamanatkan oleh UUD 1945 pasal 31 ayat 4 dan UU tentang Sisdiknas pasal 49.

Mereka juga meminta segera diterbitkannya PP tentang guru dan dosen yang substansinya berpihak kepada kemajuan pendidikan dan peningkatan kesejahteraan guru/dosen.

Selain itu juga dituntut adanya pemberian uang makan bagi PNS yang tidak diskriminatif baik PNS pusat maupun PNS daerah, dan agar pemerintah secepatnya memberikan tunjangan fungsional guru.

Pretty Small but going up every year

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Anggaran Pendidikan Diupayakan Terus Meningkat


09/07/2007 14:51:55 WIB
JAKARTA, investorindonesia.com
Pemerintah berupaya terus meningkatkan anggaran pendidikan hingga mencapai 20% dari total anggaran belanja negara.

"Porsi anggaran untuk pendidikan memang baru 11,8%, namun pemerintah terus berupaya meningkatkannya," kata Direktur Anggaran II Ditjen Anggaran Depkeu, Bambang Djasminto di Jakarta, Senin, ketika menerima sekitar 30 perwakilan guru dari Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia (PGRI) Jawa Timur yang menggelar aksi mengajukan sejumlah tuntutan.

Menurut Bambang, porsi tersebut merupakan porsi anggaran 2007 untuk Departemen Agama dan Departemen Pendidikan Nasional di luar gaji guru dan pendidikan kedinasan di kementerian/lembaga.

Ia menyebutkan, alokasi anggaran pendidikan secara nominal sebenarnya telah meningkat cukup besar. Pada tahun 2002 mencapai Rp 15,8 triliun, tahun 2003 mencapai Rp 20,54 triliun, 2005 mencapai Rp 27,1 triliun, dan tahun 2007 mencapai Rp 40,0 triliun.

"Untuk tahun 2008, pagu indikatif yang masuk untuk anggaran pendidikan mencapai sekitar Rp 48 triliun," katanya.

Hari ini sekitar 1.500 guru dari PGRI Jatim melakukan aksi mengajukan sejumlah tuntutan. Aksi dibagi dalam tiga kelompok yaitu di DPR, Depdiknas, dan Depkeu.

Paling tidak ada 4 tuntutan yang diajukan dalam aksi tersebut, yaitu mendesak/menuntut kepada pihak berwenang untuk segera merealisasikan anggaran pendidikan sebesar 20% dari APBN/APBD sebagaimana yang diamanatkan oleh UUD 1945 pasal 31 ayat 4 dan UU tentang Sisdiknas pasal 49.

Mereka juga meminta segera diterbitkannya PP tentang guru dan dosen yang substansinya berpihak kepada kemajuan pendidikan dan peningkatan kesejahteraan guru/dosen.

Selain itu juga dituntut adanya pemberian uang makan bagi PNS yang tidak diskriminatif baik PNS pusat maupun PNS daerah, dan agar pemerintah secepatnya memberikan tunjangan fungsional guru.

This is extremely good news !!

03/08/07 17:43

UI Targetkan Masuk 100 Besar Dunia dalam Lima Tahun

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Universitas Indonesia menargetkan masuk peringkat 100 besar universtas ternama dunia dalam lima tahun mendatang dengan menjadikan Kampus UI Depok sebagai taman pengetahuan atau Science Park.

"Kita targetkan dalam lima tahun masuk 100 besar dunia. Lima besar di ASEAN dan 10 besar di Asia," kata Rektor UI terpilih Gumilar Rusliwa Sumantri setelah menemui Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono di kantor presiden Jakarta, Jumat.

Menurut Gumilar, saat ini UI berada dalam peringkat 250 dari 520 universitas ternama dunia yang dinilai berdasarkan empat indikator yaitu kemampuan riset, kemampuan pengajaran, visi internasional, dan tingkatan teknologi. Peringkat sekarang ini sudah lebih baik dibanding posisi lima tahun lalu di peringkat 420.

Untuk mencapai target tersebut, UI akan menekankan pada upaya memperkuat governance, transparansi sektor keuangan dan memperbaiki sumber daya manusia.

"Kita akan merekrut tenaga-tenaga baru yang berkualitas dan meningkatkan yang sudah ada dan mencoba mengembangkan kesejahteraan staf pengajar dan karyawan sehingga profesionalisme mereka meningkat," katanya.

Selain itu, UI akan meningkatkan program riset dan pengajaran yang dilakukan tanpa sekat-sekat fakultas atau departemen sehingga ada fleksibilitas untuk peningkatan kualitas mahasiswa.

"Perubahan ini harus dilakukan secara sistematis, sehingga istilah kami adalah akselarasi dan transformasi UI menuju riset dan enterpreneur secara internasional," katanya.

Peresmian kampus UI sebagai science park, lanjutnya, akan dilakukan Senin (6/8) mendatang dan diharapkan bisa dihadiri oleh Presiden Yudhoyono yang menganggap bahwa kampus merupakan elemen penting untuk melahirkan pemikiran dan membantu pemerintah mengeluarkan kebijakan-kebijakan di berbagai bidang seperti teknologi.

Gumilar mengatakan Presiden sangat menyambut gembira rencana UI tersebut dan mendukung penuh agar universitas memiliki peran penting dalam kehidupan bernegara dan bermasyarakat pada abad ke-21 ini.(*)

Copyright © 2007 ANTARA

Gue...kagak tahu kalau UI itu OK, abis jarang kedengaran di Eropa:ohno: . kagak salah keponakan gue yang student disana bangga, katanya susah masuknya. Dikira gue di Indon pake money bisa masuk universitas mana ajah.......:lol: :lol:

EU awards scholarships to 44 Indonesian graduates and scholars
JAKARTA (Antara): The European Commission has awarded 44 European Union "Erasmus Mundus" scholarships for Indonesians to follow higher education in Europe starting September.

"The scholarships are part of efforts to enhance friendly relations between EU and Indonesia," Sheila Town, European Union’s Educational Attaché to Indonesia, said when presenting the scholarships to the Indonesian graduates and scholars here Thursday.

The 44 awardees are amongst 1,826 graduates and scholars worldwide who have obtained "Erasmus Mundus" scholarships for the 2007 academic year.

The Erasmus Mundus scholarships, awarded in Euro, cover travel costs, tuition fees, monthly allowance and accommodation costs.

The awardees will leave for Europe to pursue teaching and research in at least two universities located in two different EU member states.

Funded by the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, the scholarships are open to students who have completed a bachelor’s degree and are citizens of non-EU member states, including Indonesia.

Recipients of the scholarships will undertake an Erasmus Mundus Master Course (EMMC) from one up to two years. (**)

50 Promising Indonesian Universities
The Embassy of Republic of Indonesia, Washington DC (http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/edu/detaileducation.php?id=20)

There are 2684 institutions of higher educations in Indonesia; the following links are 50 selected public and private universities and polytechnics which have national academic credibility and eager to explore international partnership:



1. Ahmad Dahlan University : www.uad.ac.id

2. Airlangga University :www.unair.ac.id

3. Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta :www.atmajaya.ac.id

4. Atma Jaya University Yogyakarta : www.uajy.ac.id

5. Bandung Polytechnic for Manufacturing :www.polman-bandung.ac.id

6. Bandung State Polytechnic :www.polban.ac.id

7. Bina Nusantara University :www.binus.ac.id

8. Bogor Agricultural University : www.ipb.ac.id

9. Bunda Mulia University :www.bundamulia.ac.id

10. Diponegoro University :www.undip.ac.id

11. Gadjah Mada University : www.ugm.ac.id

12. Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Jogja : www.isi.ac.id

13. Indonesian Institute of the Arts , Denpasar : www.isi-dps.ac.id

14. Indonesian Institute of the Arts , Surakarta :www.stsi-ska.ac.id

15. Institut Teknologi Bandung : www.itb.ac.id

16. Institute Teknologi Sepuluh November : www.its.ac.id

17. Jakarta Institute of the Arts, The : www.ikj.ac.id

18. Jember University :www.unej.ac.id

19. Jenderal Soedirman University : www.unsoed.ac.id

20. Maranatha Christian University :www.maranatha.edu

21. Merdeka University – Malang : www.unmer.ac.id

22. Muhammadiyah University of Malang : www.umm.ac.id

23. Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta : www.ums.ac.id

24. Padang State Polytechnic :www.polinpdg.ac.id

25. Padang State University : www.unp.ac.id

26. Padjadjaran University :www.unpad.ac.id

27. Palangkaraya University : www.upr.ac.id

28. Pancasila University :www.univpancasila.ac.id

29. Parahyangan Catholic University : www.unpar.ac.id

30. Pasundan University :www.unpas.ac.id

31. Pelita Harapan University : www.uph.ac.id

32. Sanata Dharma University : www.usd.ac.id

33. Satya Wacana Christian University : www.uksw.edu

34. Sebelas Maret University : www.uns.ac.id

35. Soegijopranata Catholic University : www.unika.ac.id

36. Sriwijaya University :www.unsri.ac.id

37. State University of Malang :www.malang.ac.id

38. State University of Medan :www.unimed.ac.id

39. Supra School of Bussiness and Computer Science : www.supra.ac.id

40. Tadulako University :www.untad.ac.id

41. Telkom School of Engineering :www.stttelkom.ac.id

42. Udayana University :www.unud.ac.id

43. University of 17 Agustus 1945, The :www.untag-sb.ac.id

44. University of Bengkulu :www.unib.ac.id

45. University of Indonesia : www.ui.ac.id

46. University of Mataram :www.unram.ac.id

47. University of Surabaya :www.ubaya.ac.id

48. Widyagama University of Malang :www.widyagama.ac.id

49. Windya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya : www.wima.ac.id

50. Yogyakarta State University :www.uny.ac.id

From The Jakarta Post Features News - Sunday, August 19, 2007

Proper exposure to one's own history is not something that can be learned or taught in a weekend.

Historical theory argues that a nation's relations with its own past are crucially dependent on education and the social and political environment, because the process needs a high degree of reception, classification and reflection on the part of the individual.

More than 30 years of dictatorship have triggered a range of factors that constrain open access to Indonesian history. Up to this day, historically crucial events of the 20th Century, like colonization by the Dutch, Sukarno's and Soeharto's seizure of power and the genocide experienced by those accused of being communist sympathizers in Indonesia subsequently, remain enshrouded in mystery.

During the New Order, Soeharto enforced a centristic view on past events that served to perpetuate his power. At the same time, an educational model was applied that frustrated the nation's development toward a people of self-contained, scrutinizing individuals.

Up to this day, the New Order version of history remains largely unquestioned, and educational methods have not changed a great deal.

Educational history books deemed not to be in line with government views were recently set alight as part of a nationwide effort, showing, in the view of critics, the lack of maturity with which Indonesia still deals with its "awkward" past.

It has been said in criticism that much of Indonesia's history has been chronicled by foreigners; with underpaid academics here, still financially dependent on the goodwill of government officials, there is unlikely to be major change in the near future.

Changes, though, in the approach to history education and culture and a general acceptance of diverse views on the past are seen as essential to clear up the murkiness from the inside.

If historians cannot do it, the arts world will instead.

-- Sascha Pries

@ paradyto

your list is full of controvery, no university of Hasanudin in Makassar and University of Brawijaya in Malang

@ paradyto

your list is full of controvery, no university of Hasanudin in Makassar and University of Brawijaya in Malang

Hasanudin kan yang sering berantem itu kan, jadi mungkin masuk negative list... kalau brawijaya gak tau deh...

lagian ini juga bukan peringkat, tapi 'promising' university yang dipilih (entah kriterianya apa)...

mungkin aja hasanudin dan unibraw masuk 100 besar... mungkin...

I know already the problem of the list

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Di Balik Peluncuran 50 Perguruan Tinggi Unggulan Dikti

Agar PT Tak Terlena Status
Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (Dikti) Departemen Pendidikan Nasional merilis daftar 50 besar perguruan tinggi (PT) unggulan 2006 di Nusantara. Sebanyak 28 PT negeri (PTN) dan 22 PT swasta (PTS) tercatat di dalamnya. Anehnya, beberapa PTN bergengsi yang selama inimenjadi fafvorit tak masuk daftar.
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KOMPETISI yang ketat. Itulah yang diharapkan Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi (Dikti) Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (Depdiknas) terhadap perguruan tinggi (PT) baik negeri maupun swasta di tanah air. Keinginan Dikti tersebut tentu bukan tanpa alasan. Sebab, kualitas PT di Indonesia belum banyak dipercaya dunia internasional.

Jamak diketahui, dari sekitar 2.700 PT di Indonesia, baru empat yang masuk daftar 500 besar PT dunia. Yakni Universitas Indonesia (250), Institut Teknologi Bandung (258), Universitas Gadjah Mada (270), dan Universitas Diponegoro (495). Fakta tersebut ditanggapi Dikti dengan sebuah ide pacuan persaingan PT di lingkaran nasional. Jika persaingan PT di dalam negeri sudah kompetitif, Dikti tak bakal kerepotan mencari PT berkualitas di Indonesia untuk ditampilkan di mata dunia. Akhirnya, pekan lalu rilis Dikti-yang sedianya diwartakan awal tahun-tentang 50 besar PT alias PT unggulan di Indonesia diluncurkan.

Anehnya, beberapa nama PT favorit jujugan masyarakat, terutama PTN (perguruan tinggi negeri), tak masuk daftar. Tengok saja salah satu PTN unggulan Jawa Timur, Universitas Brawijaya. Atau Universitas Hassanudin yang telah mencetak banyak tokoh bangsa tak turut dalam daftar. Tak masuknya beberapa PTN tersebut tentu menimbulkan tanda tanya.

Rektor Universitas Brawijaya, Prof Ir Yogi Sugito, kepada Radar Malang (Jawa Pos Group) beberapa waktu lalu bahkan mengaku heran. Adakah kriteria yang digunakan Dikti dalam menilai benar-benar akurat. "Ya, mungkin saja ada udang di balik batu," ungkap Yogi.

Pertanyaan yang mungkin tak hanya menghinggapi Yogi itu dijawab tegas oleh Direktur Kelembagaan Dirjen Dikti Prof Dr Supeno Djanali. Dia mengatakan, penilaian 50 PT unggulan telah lama disiarkan Dikti, tepatnya pada Juli tahun lalu. Dari sekitar 2.700 PT di tanah air, 156 di antaranya dikirimi kabar untuk memasukkan profil kampus plus pencapaiannya selama ini. Dari jumlah itu, hanya 78 PT yang merespons. "Semuanya dibikin fair dengan kriteria yang jelas dan akurat," tutur Supeno.

Kriteria penilaian tersebut dititikberatkan pada beberapa poin. Yakni jumlah hibah kompetisi yang didapat PT (30 persen), penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (25), dinamika mahasiswa (20), kerja sama internasional (15), dan fasilitas kampus (10). "PT yang benar-benar memenuhi syarat dan memasukkan profil pasti masuk unggulan," lanjut pria yang hingga kini masih aktif mengajar di Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) itu.

Nah, soal memasukkan profil seperti yang diminta Dikti itulah yang rupanya menjadi salah satu penyebab absennya beberapa PTN favorit. Supeno mengakui bahwa beberapa PTN tak setor data yang diminta Dikti. "Kalau mengusulkan saja tidak, bagaimana bisa masuk," katanya.

Respons itulah yang sebenarnya ingin dilihat Dikti. PTN yang "terlena" dengan kenegeriannya sudah seharusnya dibangunkan. Mengutip kata-kata Supeno, perlu di-shock therapy. PTN harus mulai paham bahwa persaingan pendidikan tinggi tak bisa dipandang sebelah mata. PTN harus mulai memperhitungkan kualitas PTS yang kini tak kalah dengan kampus negeri. Segala pencapaian universitas harus disusun rapi dan siap ditunjukkan ke khalayak luas.

Tujuan menyusun 50 Promising Indonesian Universities itu pun bukan tanpa maksud. PT yang telah masuk daftar disusun profilnya satu per satu dan dibukukan dalam sebuah direktori berbahasa Inggris. Supeno mengatakan, Dikti telah membawa 50 PT tersebut ke berbagai negera, termasuk Amerika Serikat dan Jerman. Atase pendidikan dan kebudayaan Indonesia di berbagai negara pun dititipi profil ke-50 PT tersebut agar bisa dimunculkan di setiap pameran pendidikan di berbagai negeri.

Tak berhenti di situ, Dikti juga menyebarkan profil ke berbagai Industri. Tujuannya tak lepas dari jalinan kerja sama dan menunjukkan kualitas PT yang erat kaitannya dengan mutu lulusan. Oleh karena itu, PT yang ingin masuk daftar tidak boleh "malas" mengaudit hasil kerjanya. "Kalau tahun ini (2006, Red) tidak masuk, tunjukkan tahun depan. Kalau memang benar-benar berkualitas, pasti masuk," tantangnya.

Daftar 50 besar PT unggulan Indonesia memang akan digarap Dikti tiap tahun. Perubahan daftar sangat dimungkinkan terjadi. Tahun depan Dikti akan menjaring 300 PT untuk diikutkan dalam "kompetisi" unggulan tersebut. Sebanyak 100 PT akan dipilih sebagai PT unggulan. Menurut Supeno, sudah saatnya kini PT Indonesia menanggapi serius tantangan persaingan pendidikan global.

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What a jerk

I can make a bet that famous universities like UI or UGM also didn't return profile of their campus. But who dare not putting them on the list? :D:D

What I found after googling University of Hasanudin

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Unhas tak Masuk 50 Besar Perguruan Tinggi Unggulan

Perguruan Tinggi (PT) berlambang ayam jantan, Universitas Hasanuddin (Unhas) dinyatakan tak masuk 50 besar PT unggulan di Indonesia. Hal itu berdasarkan hasil penilaian yang dikeluarkan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (Dikti) Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (Diknas) pada 2006.

Berdasarkan pengumuman Dikti itu, justru Universitas Tadulako (Untad), Sulawesi Tengah, masuk dalam daftar 50 besar. Bahkan, Untad merupakan satu-satunya universitas yang terpilih dari daratan Sulawesi.

Keputusan Dikti itu, langsung memunculkan reaksi sejumlah kalangan. Terlebih lagi, tidak elasnya kriteria yang digunakan sebagai standar penilaian.

Rektor Unhas, Prof Dr dr Idrus Paturusi SPBO, mengatakan, hasil penilaian Dikti itu salah. Idrus mengaku bingung melihat hasil penilaian itu karena indikator yang digunakan tidak jelas.

“Saya kira hasil penilaian itu salah. Tapi, sudahlah. Kami tidak perlu mengomentari hasil penilaian itu. Biarkan masyarakat yang menilai langsung bagaimana kualitas Unhas dibanding Tadulako,” katanya kecewa saat dikonfirmasi Fajar, Senin sore, 30 Juli.

Idrus mengaku sangat heran dengan hasil penilaian tersebut. Pasalnya, lanjut Idrus, hasil penilaian dari luar negeri (LN) saja, Unhas telah menempati posisi ke-78 dari 100 universitas terbaik di Asia Tenggara.

“Bahkan, dari 13 universitas di Indonesia yang terpilih di Asia Tenggara tahun ini, Unhas urutan tujuh,” tandasnya, meyakinkan.

Pembantu Rektor (PR) I Unhas, Prof Dr Ir Dadang A Suriamiharja yang dikonfirmasi terpisah, mengatakan, hasil penilaian Dikti tak perlu dipersoalkan. Pasalnya, kata dia, kegagalan Unhas masuk 50 besar versi Dikti, hanya terletak pada perbedaan paramater penilaian saja. Apalagi, penilaian itu dilakukan pada 2006 lalu.

Karena itu, Dadang bertekad akan segera membenahi semua kelemahan tersebut. Dadang mengaku, tidak khawatir dengan kegagalan tersebut. Apalagi, penilaian seperti itu baru pertama kali dilaksanakan dan akan berlangsung setiap tahun. Dadang menargetkan, untuk penilaian 2007 ini, Unhas sudah masuk 50 besar.

Sebagai langkah kongkret agar bisa lolos dalam 50 besar tahun ini, Unhas telah melakukan beberapa persiapan. Di antaranya, mengubah sistem pendidikan dari teaching menjadi learning, melakukan pendataan dari sistem analog menjadi digital. “Kita juga mengubah metode penelitian dari sistem sporadis menjadi roadmap,” jelasnya.

Guru Besar Unhas, Prof Achmad Ali yang ditemui secara terpisah, juga mengaku belum mengetahui pasti hasil penilaian tersebut. Tapi, lanjut Achmad Ali, kalau memang hasil penilaian itu benar adanya, maka tidak ada jalan lain kecuali stake holders Unhas segera berbenah. Semua elemen di Kampus Merah itu, mulai dari rektor, pembantu rektor, dekan, dan para guru besar, harus introspeksi diri.

Unhas, kata dia, harus segera mengejar ketertinggalan. Kegagalan tersebut, juga harus dijadikan cambuk untuk lebih berprestasi di masa yang akan datang. Achmad Ali mencontohkan, salah satu hal yang harus segera dibenahi di Unhas adalah motivasi mengajar para guru besar. Selama ini, sebut dia, sebagian besar dosen di Unhas ketika sudah mendapatkan gelar guru besar, langsung malas mengajar.

“Padahal, mestinya ketika mereka mendapat gelar guru besar, justru lebih rajin lagi mengajar. Ini salah satu yang harus dibenahi,” tandasnya, serius.

Wakil Gubernur Sulsel yang tak lain adalah alumnus Unhas, Syahrul Yasin Limpo mengaku prihatin dengan kegagalan itu. Menurutnya, kegagalan kali ini harus jadi cambuk bagi para pengelola Unhas untuk lebih meningkatkan kualitasnya.

Syahrul mengatakan, untuk mencapai kualitas yang bagus, para pengelola perguruan tinggi perlu memperbaiki proses belajar dan mengajar. Di samping itu, sarana dan fasilitas kampus juga mesti diperbaiki.

“Bukan cuma Unhas. Kita berharap, semua kampus yang ada di Sulsel segera membenahi diri untuk meraih prestasi di masa yang akan datang,” pintanya.

Incoming Search Terms: unhas (56), 50 universitas terbaik indonesia (7), 50 universitas terbaik di indonesia (7), Daftar 50 Universitas Terbaik di Indonesia (6), 50 Perguruan Tinggi Unggulan Dikti (6),
Perguruan Tinggi (PT) berlambang ayam jantan, Universitas Hasanuddin (Unhas) dinyatakan tak masuk 50 besar PT unggulan di Indonesia. Hal itu berdasarkan hasil penilaian yang dikeluarkan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (Dikti) Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (Diknas) pada 2006.

08/20/07 13:19

VP: Education`s quality not only determined by available funds

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the quality of national education did not merely depend on the amount of funds allocated for it but also on the teachers` capability in instructing students.

"It is not only the amount of funds that determines the quality of education but it also depends on the capability of teachers and the process of teaching and learning activities," the vice president said here on Monday.

Kalla made the remark when addressing some 80 teachers selected to conduct comparative studies in several ASEAN countries.

He said demands for raising the state budget allocation for education to 20 percent this year was important but it did not merely determine the quality of national education.

"Twenty percent rise of educational funds should be appreciated but it will be possible only if economic growth is good. If the teachers and students frequently hit the streets to stage protest rallies, then it will have a negative impact on economic growth," Kalla said.

He said although the government was still unable to meet the demand for raising the budget allocation for education to 20 percent, it had increased the funds to Rp48 trillion this year or much more than that in 2005 when the figure was Rp23 trillion. (*)

Copyright © 2007 ANTARA

Jelas fasilitas yang lengkap menunjang kepintaran suatu sekolah. Apalagi di zaman globalisasi begini....:banana:
Emang zaman penjajah..asal semangat donak:ohno:

Thanx Blue, Gw sendiri saja jadi tahu kenapa?nya....:)

Bocah Indonesia, Mahasiswa Termuda di HK
Usia 9 Tahun, Lolos Seleksi Perguruan Tinggi:okay::okay:

HONG KONG – Bocah Indonesia, March Boedihardjo, mencatatkan diri sebagai mahasiswa termuda di Universitas Baptist Hong Kong (HKBU). Pihak universitas harus berdiskusi antardepartemen dan juga dengan orangtuanya, sebelum memutuskan menerima bocah sembilan tahun itu menempuh pendidikan di sana. ’’Hasil tes tulis dan wawancara sangat baik,’’ jelas Presiden HKBU Profesor Franklin Luk saat jumpa pers bersama March. March akan memulai kuliah bulan depan bersama rekan-rekan yang usianya rata-rata sepuluh tahun lebih tua darinya. Bila lulus nanti, March akan memiliki gelar sarjana sains ilmu matematika sekaligus master filosofi matematika.

Karena keistimewaannya itu, perguruan tinggi tersebut menyusun kurikulum khusus untuknya dengan jangka waktu penyelesaian lima tahun. ”Dengan niat mengembangkan kepintaran akademik, pertumbuhan personal, dan kehidupan kampus, kami menyusun peta pembelajaran yang terbaik untuk March. Cara ini bisa mendorong March untuk memperkaya kemampuan,” sambung Luk.
Ayah March, Tony Boedihardjo, menjelaskan, sebenarnya mereka sudah melamar ke beberapa universitas lain di Hong Kong. Di antaranya Universitas of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, dan Chinese University of Hong Kong. ”Namun, universitas-universitas itu belum memberikan jawaban,” kata Boedihardjo.

Selama jumpa pers, bocah cerdas itu tidak lepas dari perilaku kanak-kanaknya. Beberapa kali dia bergurau dengan membuat tampang lucu dan bermain-main dengan mikrofon.

Ketika ditanya tentang cara beradaptasi dengan lingkungan dan orang-orang baru, March mengaku tidak pernah cemas berhadapan dengan teman sekelas yang lebih tua darinya. ”Ketika saya di Oxford, semua rekan sekelas saya berusia di atas 18 tahun dan kami kerap mendiskusikan tugas-tugas matematika,’’ kisahnya.

March memang menempuh pendidikan menengah di Inggris. Hebatnya, dia masuk dalam kelas akselerasi, sehingga hanya perlu waktu dua tahun menjalani pendidikan setingkat SMA itu.
Untuk menentukan kelulusan, dia harus menempuh ujian akhir A-level (advanced level). Hasilnya, dia mendapat dua nilai A untuk pelajaran matematika dan B untuk statistik.

Tidak cukup di situ. Dia juga berhasil menembus Advanced Extension Awards (AEA), ujian yang hanya bisa diikuti sepuluh persen pelajar yang menempati peringkat teratas A-level. Dia lulus dengan predikat memuaskan. Dalam sejarah AEA, hanya seperempat peserta AEA yang bisa mendapat status tersebut.

Dalam lima tahun ke depan, March akan melewati hari-harinya untuk mempelajari bahasa, pendidikan fisika, komputer, agama, dan filosofi. Selain itu, pihak universitas mendorong March untuk berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan sosial kemahasiswaan plus aktivitas kesenian yang digelar di kampus. Dengan demikian, dirinya mendapat pengalaman penuh sebagai mahasiswa. (xinhuanet/tia)

Historians tell government to provide proper education

Desy Nurhayati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

An international history and research organization has slammed the Indonesian government for not providing 20 percent of the state's budget to education and said Indonesia needs to focus more on schooling its youth.

The archipelago has been free from the Dutch for hundreds of years, but the country still suffers associated problems with education, historians said Monday.

"During the colonialism era, local (Indonesian) people were forbidden to go to school because the Dutch didn't want them to be well-educated," said the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).

"The country still faces problems in the education sector, although (they) appear in a different way," an historian with KITLV Roger Tol said.

"Back then, the Indonesian people could not go to school because they were hampered by the Dutch, but now they don't have enough access to education."

Tol was speaking at the launch of Biography of Koesoemo Oetoyo: The Long Journey of a Nation's Child, which was held in conjunction with the August 17 Indonesian Independence Day.

Historian Rushdy Hoesein from the University of Indonesia shared the same view. He said the government should provide evenly dispersed access to education nationally.

"Education is the most important key for the empowerment of our people," Rushdy said while addressing the same event Monday.

"We can learn from the spirit of our founding fathers who established the Boedi Oetomo (movement) during the national awakening period.

"They struggled to build education access for Indonesian people who were oppressed under the colonial government."

Boedi Oetomo was established by a group of medical students in Java on May 20, 1908.

Its establishment marked the beginning of efforts to build a solid nation that was against oppression by the Dutch and May 20 is celebrated annually as National Awakening Day.

The founders of Boedi Oetomo included educated "inlanders" -- a Dutch term used for Indonesian people living under the colonization of the Dutch.

These inlanders included Wahidin Sudirohusodo, R. Sutomo, R. Gunawan Mangunkusumo and Koesoemo Oetoyo.

The movement eventually led to the country's freedom, which culminated in the Aug. 17, 1945 declaration of independence by Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta.

The two were unanimously appointed by members of the then-embryonic parliament (known as PPKI) and became the following day the country's first president and vice president.

Rushdy said all Indonesian people needed to take part in the improvement of education in the country. He said it was not the government's sole responsibility.

"The spirit of our founding fathers is still relevant to be applied at this globalization era," Rushdy said.

Australia builds 17 new schools in S. Kalimantan

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Australia`s Deputy Head of Mission to Indonesia, Ms Louise Hand, on Friday officiated at a ceremony in Banjarbaru to inaugurate one of 17 junior secondary schools (SMP) the Australian Government is building in South Kalimantan.

According to Australian Embassy media release here on Friday, Ms Hand said the new schools were part of the Rp2,5 trillion Australian Government program to build or expand 2000 schools in Indonesia, across 20 provinces, from 2006-2009.

"Up to 1225 of these schools are expected to be completed by early 2008," Ms Hand said during the inauguration ceremony at SMPN 13 Cempaka, Banjarbaru.

"This year, we have funded the construction of 10 secondary schools in South Kalimantan and another seven schools will be built here next year," she said.

"I am delighted to know that all ten schools built this year are brand new, and that local students were able to start classes in these new facilities when the 2007 school term began," she added.

The Australian Government program, developed in consultation with the Ministries of National Education and Religious Affairs, aims to create more than 330,000 new junior secondary school (SMP) places for 13 to 15 year olds by mid-2009, targeting children from poor and remote areas.

Around 500 of the 2000 schools being built or expanded are private Madrasah Tsanawiyah, under the supervision of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Local people are building the schools using locally supplied materials. The school sites have been selected based on assessments of unmet demand, enrollment rates and community involvement.

Ms Hand said some schools built under the program would be invited to participate in a planned `sister school` arrangement with Australian schools.

She hoped this new program would facilitate exchanges between Australian and Indonesian school communities and "strengthen further the extensive people-to-people links between our two countries." (*)

Copyright © 2007 ANTARA

its sad that it takes other people to do whats needed while our own government busying themselves with robbing the country.

terima kasih Australia !!

I agree, a shame that this is happening.

Rabu, 26 September 2007 | 16:03 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta

Departemen Pendidikan Nasional mendatangkan 76 orang guru bantu Bahasa Mandarin dari Cina didatangkan ke Indonesia.
Bahasa ini, kata Direktur Jenderal Peningkatan Mutu Pendidik dan Tenaga Kependidikan (Dirjen PMPTK) Depdiknas, Fasli Jalal, menjadi bahasa kedua yang diminati setelah bahasa Inggris.

Pada periode 2004-2005, ia menjelaskan, Departemen mendatangkan 20 guru bahasa Mandarin, dan pada 2006 sebanyak 40 orang.

Untuk meningkatkan mutu pembelajaran bahasa Mandarin, kata Fasli, sejak 2001 Departemen menawarkan ujian Bahasa Mandarin atau tes HSK (han yu shui ping kao shi). Pembelajaran Bahasa Mandarin nantinya akan didukung dengan buku standar.

Para pengajar bahasa Mandarin ini akan ditempatkan di 14 provinsi diantaranya, Sumatera Utara, DKI Jakarta, Jawa Barat, Kalimantan Timur, Kalimantan Barat, DI Yogyakarta, dan Sulawesi Utara. Mereka akan memberikan pengajaran Bahasa Mandarin selama satu tahun. Reh Atemalem Susanti

Kapan ya Universitas Asing bisa masuk ke Indonesia.. ? Jangan buru-buru marah dulu...dengan hadirnya Univ Asing di Indonesia bisa menjadi pemicu Univ2 Lokal untuk semakin kompetitif dan bisa menjadi Institusi Pendidikan Internasional.. :) :):)

@marinho : You should change u'r signature..The part about Myanmar ! Read the signature rules....

yea, that might be a good idea. but then again, the local university will be killed off as they can't compete with the foreign scale budget. might as well, to be a wake up call for the stupid corrupt government who sets the education budget very low as percentage of GDP.

@marinho: c'mon, indonesia is worse than myanmar. its just that indonesian are too poor and tired to do anything about it like the people in myanmar.

I will change my signature-

Hereby I offer my apology to those who are insulted or feel themselves provoked by my signature with specific remarks against Myanmar.

@marinho: c'mon, indonesia is worse than myanmar. its just that indonesian are too poor and tired to do anything about it like the people in myanmar.

We did that in 1998.

UI to build US$200 million brain & neural hospital in Depok
DEPOK, West Java (Antara): The University of Indonesia (UI) will build a US$200 million hospital in Depok, West Java, as a center for stroke patient treatment, the UI rector said.

UI rector Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said during a post-Ramadhan fasting month gathering at the UI campus on Wednesday that construction of the hospital will begin from mid-2008 to 2010.

"The hospital will become a brain and neural center," Gumilar said, adding Japan would give financial assistance to build the hospital.

The hospital would be equipped with sophisticated medical equipment to provide a quick and accurate health services especially in handling brain and neural disorders, he said.

It would also serve as a public health center for 1.4 million Depok residents, and an education and research center, Gumilar added. (***)

^^ Sudah dipos ma Paradyto ... di Indonesia Hospital thread :p~

lagian, kaitannya dengam edukasi apa ????

UI to build US$200 million brain & neural hospital in Depok
DEPOK, West Java (Antara): The University of Indonesia (UI) will build a US$200 million hospital in Depok, West Java, as a center for stroke patient treatment, the UI rector said.

UI rector Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said during a post-Ramadhan fasting month gathering at the UI campus on Wednesday that construction of the hospital will begin from mid-2008 to 2010.

"The hospital will become a brain and neural center," Gumilar said, adding Japan would give financial assistance to build the hospital.

The hospital would be equipped with sophisticated medical equipment to provide a quick and accurate health services especially in handling brain and neural disorders, he said.

It would also serve as a public health center for 1.4 million Depok residents, and an education and research center, Gumilar added. (***)

^^ Sudah dipos ma Paradyto ... di Indonesia Hospital thread :p~

lagian, kaitannya dengam edukasi apa ????

Galak amat sih:bash::bash: ( Universitas Indonesia, ngerti sekarang:tongue4:)

Galak amat sih:bash::bash: ( Universitas Indonesia, ngerti sekarang:tongue4:)

Oke2.... aq ngerti .... berarti besok kalo Bank Dubai mau bangun monorail di Jakarta .... Jangan lupa berita nya di posting di Thread Khusus Perbankan di Regional Dubai :nuts:

Oke2.... aq ngerti .... berarti besok kalo Bank Dubai mau bangun monorail di Jakarta .... Jangan lupa berita nya di posting di Thread Khusus Perbankan di Regional Dubai :nuts:

^^...:hilarious :hilarious :hilarious

I think this belongs here hehe

Jakarta Sees Future for Creative Industries

Financial Times (UK); Friday, October 26, 2007
By John Aglionby

Indonesia wants to more than double the creative industries’ contribution to the national economy in the next few years through aggressive development of the country’s rich, but largely untapped, artistic traditions and cultural heritage.

Mari Pangestu, the trade minister, says the creative industries contribute about 4.75 per cent of Indonesia’s $400bn (£195b) gross domestic product.

“I think we should be able to get it up to 10 per cent,” she said. “It will take five to eight years. But we think Indonesia can have a niche [in creative industries] because of the very rich artistic capability of Indonesia and the very rich cultural heritage, as well as very high skills.”

The move is seen as an important plank in a wider, long-term strategy to diversify Indonesia’s economy away from the resource-based industries and labour-intensive manufacturing on which it now relies.

Officials trumpet the recent arrival of Royal Doulton, the British tableware and collectables manufacturer, as a sign of how overseas companies can tap into Indonesian creativity. It has a large factory near Jakarta and recently transferred 1,400 jobs to it from Britain, opening a design studio nearby.

Narinder Arora, the head of Royal Doulton in Indonesia, said the local population’s creativity was something of a hidden talent. “They’re very poor at marketing,” he said, “and they’re very shy people, but what we’ve discovered with our products is that the quality and the creativity is as good as their British counterparts.”

Longstanding uncertainty over intellectual property rights, endemic corruption and burdensome labour laws have long been regarded as brakes on investment in Indonesia.

South-east Asia’s largest economy languished in 123rd place out of 178 countries in terms of the ease of doing business in a recent World Bank ranking.

Mrs Pangestu said the drive to push investment in the creative industries would require a shake-up of government policies regarding intellectual property rights and education. But there are still those who see enormous potential in Indonesia’s initiative.

Yudhi Soerijoatmodjo, the head of a team at the British Council helping to develop Indonesia’s cultural industries, said the country had spent the past three decades focusing on securing investment in labour-intensive, low-end manufacturing rather than on product design and branding. But when it had ventured into creative industries it had found success.

Mr Yudhi said a good example was the music and related mobile phone ringtone industry. “Eighty per cent of music sales in Indonesia are now from local artists,” he said. “And bands have found they can make masses of money from just one song by making it into a mobile phone ring tone.”

Samson, a local rock band, made $1.8m from downloads last year.

The internet is also providing hitherto undreamt-of opportunities for creative Indonesians, according to Chris Kie, an Indonesian who draws the American GI Joe comic stories and designs matching action figures.

“Artists can put their work on sites ... and get noticed in a way that they couldn’t before because not many Indonesians can go abroad and showcase their talents,” he said.

The biggest impediment to success is seen as the government’s ability to abide by its promises of reform.

“The lack of co-ordination between government ministries is the big problem,” Mr Yudhi said. “If everybody can work in a co-ordinated way the challenges can be overcome because there’s a lot of buzz in the local media and society.”

Andrie Trisaksono, who started designing automated teller machines on a scrap of paper four years ago and turned a $4,000 loan into a multi-million-dollar company, said the government needed to address “economic creativity” issues.

“If they can make it easier to do business here and attract investment then our creative industries could be extraordinary,” he said.

Indonesian animator won best young animator in USA several days ago. Some of animators in Pixar are Indonesians. (quoted from AF1)


Kaum Muda Jadi Pelopor: Industri Kreatif Indonesia Tembus Pasar Mancanegara
Kompas; 31 Oct-07

Bandung, Kompas - Perkembangan industri kreatif di Indonesia sebenarnya cukup menggembirakan. Bahkan, beragam industri kreatif yang digerakkan anak-anak muda Indonesia yang mengandalkan pada kreativitas telah mampu menembus pasar mancanegara.

Kenyataan ini terungkap dari kunjungan ke beberapa perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang fashion, arsitektur, dan seni yang dibangun anak-anak muda di Bandung, Selasa (30/10). Kegiatan ini rangkaian dari simposium regional Strategic Dialogue in South East Asia-Developing Creative Industry yang digelar British Council dan diikuti pengambil kebijakan dan praktisi senior pendidikan dari 10 negara.

PT Urbane Indonesia yang didirikan tahun 2004 oleh M Ridwan Kamil, misalnya, mengembangkan pembangunan kembali dan desain urban, arsitektur, arsitektur lanskap, perencanaan regional dan kawasan, serta pembangunan yang menggabungkan beragam fungsi.

Dalam rancangan kreatif para arsitektur ini, fungsi dan estetika diterapkan secara selaras. Namun, juga tetap memerhatikan masalah lingkungan hidup, masalah sosial, termasuk ekologi, dampak visual, dan peluang ekonomi. Karya-karya kreatif para arsitek muda Indonesia ini sudah merambah mancanegara, seperti di China, Timur Tengah, dan kini mengerjakan proyek di Suriah.

Salah satu proyek arsitektur yang pernah dikerjakan adalah Beijing Islamic Center Mosque, bekerja sama dengan EDAW Hongkong. Untuk master plan, misalnya Huang Pu River Regional Master Plan di Shanghai, China, bersama SOM Hongkong.

Reza A Nurtjahja dari PT Urbane Indonesia mengatakan, karya para arsitek Indonesia ini mampu menembus pasar global karena menawarkan gagasan yang tidak biasa, tetapi tetap memerhatikan kepuasan pengguna. "Yang ditawarkan harus karya yang universal, bisa diterima pasar global," kata Reza.

Menyebar ke mancanegara

Fikki C Satari dari Airplane Systm, yang bergerak di industri kreatif fashion, mengatakan, pangsa pasar fashion yang dihasilkan dari Bandung sudah menyebar ke seluruh Indonesia dan mancanegara. "Kami mengandalkan pada desain yang lahir dari ide-ide kreatif. Fashion yang dihasilkan pun jadi unik dan tidak pasaran, malah bisa jadi trendsetter," kata Fikki.

Kreativitas pun bukan berhenti pada produksi, tetapi juga dalam pemasaran. Fikki dan teman- temannya membuat toko berjalan dengan memanfaatkan bus yang didesain secara kreatif pula. Bus ini menjadi toko berjalan yang menghampiri para pembeli di banyak tempat di Bandung. Bahkan, tahun ini mereka direncanakan menambah bus untuk di luar kota Bandung.

Selain itu, pemasaran dijalankan dengan menggabungkan industri kreatif musik independen atau musik indie yang digemari generasi muda. Dengan demikian, pembeli dikenalkan dengan budaya indie untuk menyerap semangat positif dari budaya ini.

Adapun Gustaff H Iskandar dari Common Room Network Foundation mengembangkan suatu tempat di mana orang dari berbagai kalangan bisa berkumpul untuk menyajikan kreativitas mereka. Seniman bisa memamerkan kreativitas seni mereka, atau ilmuwan bisa memperkenalkan pengetahuan dan teknologi yang sedang dikembangkan.

Pengusaha-pengusaha muda yang menggerakkan industri kreatif di Bandung tersebut juga mengembangkan kegiatan-kegiatan yang mendorong semakin banyak anak muda yang berani mengembangkan diri dengan kreativitas mereka. Pendidikan di luar sekolah dikembangkan bagi anak-anak muda yang tertarik untuk mengeksplorasi diri. (ELN)

we used to have creative thread :D

let me find and posted there ;)

Tycoon with a gift for education

By Sumathi Bali
Published: November 5 2007 02:00 | Last updated: November 5 2007 02:00

Stephen Riady, president of the Lippo group of companies, does not wish to be just a businessman. The Indonesian entrepreneur, who oversees a conglomerate, including 10 publicly listed companies from Singapore to China, says he derives greater satisfaction from giving to worthy causes.
"There are still so many people who are backward and uneducated, especially in countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam, China and India. This is one area where we can do something to help - it's our social responsibility."

Over the past 12 years, the Riady family has been committed to expanding its philanthropic work throughout the region, mainly through the development of education and healthcare.

One of the institutes to benefit from its funding recently is the National University of Singapore Business School, which received £6.7m from the Lippo group. The gift is the single largest private donation and will attract a matching donation to the school from the Singapore government.
"NUS is a top university and it's located in Singapore," says Mr Riady. "I believe the country can play a pro-active role because the government has put in place a good education infrastructure and it has the ability to attract global players and resources. We hope to give to Asia through NUS, since it's a global school."

Mr Riady's mild manner hides his inner passion to transform the lives of people. "So much wealth is being created within Asia, yet there are so few educational opportunities. There are widespread disparities in wealth, healthcare and education. This social gap isn't healthy for growth in the longer term for any country. It can lead to upheavals," he says.
"The solution lies in providing education. It will help to narrow the imbalances within society. If more people can learn to read and write, it will create the right kind of mindset. Through education we can empower the people of Asia."
Christopher Earley, dean at NUS business school, describes the donation as a "milestone" for the school and feels honoured to have received a gift from the Riadys.

The business school will use £4.8m of the fund to help develop its flagship building, named the Mochtar Riady building, in recognition of the Lippo group's gift and to honour its founder and chairman, at Kent Ridge campus. It will use the remaining £1.9m to form an endowment fund for two professorships, to retain and attract international professors to join its faculty.

Prof Earley hopes the financial aid by the Lippo group will encourage more Asian entrepreneurs and corporations to come forward to help fund university developments.

"The Riadys are ahead of the pack. The US has nearly 100 years of tradition behind it of foundations and people donating money to the arts and education. In Europe, there has been less of a tradition," he says.
"To some extent, Asia is like Europe, where education is seen as an entitlement to be provided by the government . . . It's the biggest irony; our largest donor is an Indonesian not a Singaporean."
Recently, universities in the city-state have seen their traditional funding dwindle due to more demands on government resources.
"What we're doing is really very small," says Mr Riady. "There's only so much we can do and give. But by doing this, we hope to encourage and inspire many more businessmen to do the same. To give whatever they can within their capacity."

To instill a sense of philanthropy among businesses, NUS is planning to use some of the Riady donation to set up a centre for social entrepreneurship and philanthropy early next year. It will be a fully fledged centre within the business school. "Through the centre we can offer specialised courses on philanthropy to help entrepreneurs who may be keen on setting up foundations or want to know how their gifts can go further," says Prof Earley.
NUS also wants to use the Riady funding to help raise the global standing of the business school by producing leaders who will have a positive impact on society. Prof Earley says the focus of the MBA is to ensure students not only have intellectual rigour, but have the leadership ability and the commitment to do things better for others.

"We want to create leaders who can work in a whole range of industries. We're not just interested in developing talents who can work in big financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs. We also want to create people who are willing to work for YMCA, for instance. These are not going to be big salary jobs. Here you can have a big social impact."

The school's mission philosophy dovetails with Mr Riady's own vision of wanting to develop talented individuals who are not just business savvy, but also socially responsible.

"There are a lot of smart leaders or managers coming out of schools, but most are only keen on making money and don't have the inner capacity to touch people through their work," says Mr Riady. "It's a challenge for all business schools globally to produce leaders with a good character and heart, who are willing to look after and serve people well. This is what I hope to change through our philanthropy work."

Dari RIAUTODAY ... Perpustakaan terapung itu perpustakaan di atas kapal... coolz :D

Riau Bakal Miliki Pustaka Terapung

Wednesday, 06 February 2008 09:57

Laporan Suprapto
PEKANBARU-- Permintaan Pemerintah Propinsi Riau menambah fasilitas perpusatakan dikabulkan Badan Perpusatakaan Nasional (BPN). Kedepan, Badan Perpustakan dan Arsip (BPA) Riau akan memiliki sebuah kapal yang digunakan untuk perpustakaan terapung.

"Kita mengusulkan sejak tahun 2007 yang lalu dan satu ini yang dipenuhi," ungkap Sudirwan Hamid, Kepala Badan Perpustakaan dan Arsip (BPA) Propinsi Riau.
Menurut Sudirman, pusataka terapung ini diperuntukan menjangkau daerah- daerah kepulauan. Pelaksanaannya akan diserahkan sepenuhnya ke Pemerintah Derah Bengkalis. "Pemda Bengkalis sudah beberapa kali meminta permohonan kepada kita. Makanya kapal ini kita serahkan kepada daerah yang membutuhkan,'' ungkapnya.(ira)

From the Jakarta Post February 15, 2008

Opinion News - Friday, February 15, 2008

One could not help but feel distressed listening to experts reviewing the state of the national education system at a discussion earlier this week. The headline on our front page Thursday read "National education 'has failed'". It may be overstating the case a little bit, but then, the editor was just trying to draw readers' attention to a problem that has, for too long, been neglected.

The experts spoke at a discussion on education organized by this newspaper as part of its Silver Jubilee celebrations. They agreed there is something very wrong with the way we are teaching our children. And since these children will someday lead this nation, one shudders to think what kind of leaders they will be when they do take over.

This nation seems doomed if we look at the way we manage the education sector. One need not go into details. Just by looking at the outcome of the education process, we can clearly sense that something is amiss.

The quality of Indonesian workers ranks among the lowest in the region when measured by productivity and remuneration. In other words, other nations produce more value on a per capita basis, and they are inexpensive or certainly good value for money.

This is a direct reflection of the quality of education. In mathematical scores, Indonesian children rank among the lowest. None of Indonesia's universities made it into the top 500 universities worldwide.

This nation is sinking slowly. We either don't realize it, or we are just ignoring it completely. But it's highly questionable if this nation can survive the grueling global economic competition under its current conditions.

Yet, at same time, we are being told that more and more Indonesian college graduates are joining the ranks of the unemployed, which are already swollen by a large pool of unskilled workers.

The Central Statistics Agency made a telling observation from a survey: the higher the education level, the more dependent they become on finding work. This tells us that our education system is merely producing white-collar workers. They lack creativity and entrepreneurship.

But don't just blame the universities or colleges. These children have never been taught to think for themselves. Schools put too much emphasis on discipline and nothing else.

They all have to pass the national exam set by bureaucrats in Jakarta, who treat all children the same, irrespective of their region and their situation.

The scoring and ranking system is designed to instill a sense of competition in children, but many grew up devoid of values, principles and characters. The need for uniformity virtually kills all the creativity children bring to school.

The emphasis on discipline means that children are not encouraged to express themselves through such mediums as writing, poetry, singing and drama.

Sounds gloomy?

Yes, but that is all the more reason why the nation has to act. And the time is now.

We need to overhaul the education paradigm and system. We must start with repealing the 2003 National Education Law, which was the product of political negotiations rather than deliberation by education experts. Essentially, we need to give teaching back to teachers and out of the hands of politicians.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Our founding fathers got it right when they wrote in the Constitution that one of the goals of an independent Indonesia is to enlighten the life of the nation. They realized the importance of education, and of an enlightened nation, in preserving our freedom and independence.

And we have individual schools and teachers across the archipelago who have defied the national education system and experimented with their own vision and concepts of education, and, voila, some of them have been successful.

There are enough individuals and private organizations to raise hope that all is not lost when it comes to education in this country. The question is how to replicate what they have done in their particular group through the rest of the national education system, which is managed largely by the government's bureaucratic machinery.

The internal discussion by The Jakarta Post was a prelude to other activities we are preparing throughout this year as we dedicate our 25th anniversary celebrations to the promotion of education.

We will not cease in reminding our readers, and policy makers, throughout 2008 to take a serious look at the state of the nation's education, and to start acting to redress the problem.

This is our problem. This is our nation.

From the Jakarta Post February 15, 2008

Opinion News - Friday, February 15, 2008

One could not help but feel distressed listening to experts reviewing the state of the national education system at a discussion earlier this week. The headline on our front page Thursday read "National education 'has failed'". It may be overstating the case a little bit, but then, the editor was just trying to draw readers' attention to a problem that has, for too long, been neglected.

The experts spoke at a discussion on education organized by this newspaper as part of its Silver Jubilee celebrations. They agreed there is something very wrong with the way we are teaching our children. And since these children will someday lead this nation, one shudders to think what kind of leaders they will be when they do take over.

This nation seems doomed if we look at the way we manage the education sector. One need not go into details. Just by looking at the outcome of the education process, we can clearly sense that something is amiss.

The quality of Indonesian workers ranks among the lowest in the region when measured by productivity and remuneration. In other words, other nations produce more value on a per capita basis, and they are inexpensive or certainly good value for money.

This is a direct reflection of the quality of education. In mathematical scores, Indonesian children rank among the lowest. None of Indonesia's universities made it into the top 500 universities worldwide.

This nation is sinking slowly. We either don't realize it, or we are just ignoring it completely. But it's highly questionable if this nation can survive the grueling global economic competition under its current conditions.

Yet, at same time, we are being told that more and more Indonesian college graduates are joining the ranks of the unemployed, which are already swollen by a large pool of unskilled workers.

The Central Statistics Agency made a telling observation from a survey: the higher the education level, the more dependent they become on finding work. This tells us that our education system is merely producing white-collar workers. They lack creativity and entrepreneurship.

But don't just blame the universities or colleges. These children have never been taught to think for themselves. Schools put too much emphasis on discipline and nothing else.

They all have to pass the national exam set by bureaucrats in Jakarta, who treat all children the same, irrespective of their region and their situation.

The scoring and ranking system is designed to instill a sense of competition in children, but many grew up devoid of values, principles and characters. The need for uniformity virtually kills all the creativity children bring to school.

The emphasis on discipline means that children are not encouraged to express themselves through such mediums as writing, poetry, singing and drama.

Sounds gloomy?

Yes, but that is all the more reason why the nation has to act. And the time is now.

We need to overhaul the education paradigm and system. We must start with repealing the 2003 National Education Law, which was the product of political negotiations rather than deliberation by education experts. Essentially, we need to give teaching back to teachers and out of the hands of politicians.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Our founding fathers got it right when they wrote in the Constitution that one of the goals of an independent Indonesia is to enlighten the life of the nation. They realized the importance of education, and of an enlightened nation, in preserving our freedom and independence.

And we have individual schools and teachers across the archipelago who have defied the national education system and experimented with their own vision and concepts of education, and, voila, some of them have been successful.

There are enough individuals and private organizations to raise hope that all is not lost when it comes to education in this country. The question is how to replicate what they have done in their particular group through the rest of the national education system, which is managed largely by the government's bureaucratic machinery.

The internal discussion by The Jakarta Post was a prelude to other activities we are preparing throughout this year as we dedicate our 25th anniversary celebrations to the promotion of education.

We will not cease in reminding our readers, and policy makers, throughout 2008 to take a serious look at the state of the nation's education, and to start acting to redress the problem.

This is our problem. This is our nation.

Brig aja langsung.. :rofl:-haha, naw i'm just laughing-.. :D:D:D

materialistus, I just merged this with the thread you made. Please, pay attention, to find the thread related with what you gonna post, before making the same thread, again and again

1st and last warning, before we will give you a brig.

Cheers

thanks mod..

thread itu juga agak mengganggu..

Indonesia will never become an economic power if its citizen can't compete intellectually with the international bodies. I hope the government re hauled the entire education system.

^^ Hmm, maybe not that fast .... Indonesia just got its independence around 1945. While USA, has been around since 1776.

Well, Malaysia is 1958. ANd Singapore is 1960s ... :rofl: ....

^^ Hmm, maybe not that fast .... Indonesia just got its independence around 1945. While USA, has been around since 1776.

Well, Malaysia is 1958. ANd Singapore is 1960s ... :rofl: ....

Sepanjang pemerintah masih kurang memberi perhatian kepada mereka yang berprofesi sebagai dosen, peneliti dan yang bekerja di bidang R & D (yang note bene adalah orang berpendidikan tinggi), jangan harap Indonesia bisa maju dan bersaing; kalaupun bisa maju pasti akan makan waktu yang jauh lebih lama dari pada yang seharusnya...

materialistus, I just merged this with the thread you made. Please, pay attention, to find the thread related with what you gonna post, before making the same thread, again and again

1st and last warning, before we will give you a brig.

Cheers

oops. sorry. that was a technical glitch. the wi fi stalled and i didn't know whether it went through. and i did try to find the education thread but it took me ages. good you did it for me.

but, technical glitch and breach of forum rules aside -which seem to distract/steer away from the main message-, don't you guys think it's sad but it's true? you can lie to the whole world, but you can not lie to yourselves.

the education system is rotten. the already miniscule budget shrunk furthermore. and the people whos in power to change makes things worse while packing their offsprings away to be educated abroad in droves.

Genial !!

Yes you are right. Indonesia is a relatively young republic.

But the emphasis of the Indonesian government was to keep the republic together (uniting religions, races and places). But the individual development of both the people (education) and the individual provinces (local development) was neglected. Indonesia was too much centralized. Everything was decided in Jakarta. The provincial governments faced with problems (for example on the field of education) couldn't do anything but wait for Jakarta. But we all know that provinces have much more knowledge of local problems as they are closer the action.

While Malaysia with a strong federal aswell thirteen state goverments is far more advanced in tackling certain problems as the state governments (compared with Indonesian provinces) have more power thus having the ability to find local solutions without having to wait for Kuala Lumpur.
^^ Hmm, maybe not that fast .... Indonesia just got its independence around 1945. While USA, has been around since 1776.

Well, Malaysia is 1958. ANd Singapore is 1960s ... :rofl: ....

Lilian Budianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The Education Ministry said the use of indigenous languages during a pilot project for teachers instructing students in informal schools had been conducted with some success.

Dendy Sugono, the Ministry's language center director, told a forum here Monday the pilot project had included illiterate adults and had focused on reading and writing in Bahasa Indonesia.

He said the project had shown students could more easily learn to read and write in Indonesian if classroom teachings were conducted in their "mother tongue".

The illiteracy rate in Indonesia was sitting at 7.2 percent, or some 11 million people in 2007.

The government has aimed to reduce this figure by three million people in 2009, in line with the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals to eradicate illiteracy by 2015.

"We are running a pilot project in Subang, Banten, which sees adults learn Indonesian in Sundanese," Dendy said.

The forum was co-organized by the ministry, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the embassies of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The event was in line with International Mother Tongue Day, which falls every Feb. 21.

The use of indigenous languages as a mean of instruction was initiated by UNESCO, which also aims to preserve cultural and linguistic diversity in education and to face the threat of local language extinction.

Dendy said the use of local languages as a mean of instruction, however, was faced with challenges because of the limited vocabularies of those languages.

"We have 746 indigenous languages and only very few are well developed with enough vocabulary to express what we mean," he said.

Despite the difficulties, Dendy said the ministry planned to expand the program to formal schools in provinces in the future.

He said mother tongues were in danger of extinction in some areas because they failed to interest the younger generation.

"We want our students to appreciate indigenous languages and master them better," he said.

Speaking at the same forum, Sabbir Ahmed, an assistant professor at the University of Dhaka, said a Bangladesh NGO had developed a similar program that involved local languages in classroom teachings.

The program was introduced by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which has accommodated 14,289 indigenous students.

Bangladesh has some 45 ethnic groups that speak different languages and in 2006 the country's illiteracy rate stood at 37 percent, or around 54 million people.

Ahmed said the use of indigenous languages in classroom instruction was not only intended to smooth the learning process but also to boost the self-esteem of indigenous people.

"We want indigenous children to be at ease when they express themselves in the classroom," Ahmed said.

"While they might feel inhibited toward using the national language, Bangli, they can choose to speak in their own mother tongues."



The article above proves that education policy need to meet local demands (culture, language). Every individual region has it's own needs on the field of education.

^^ Hmm, maybe not that fast .... Indonesia just got its independence around 1945. While USA, has been around since 1776.

Well, Malaysia is 1958. ANd Singapore is 1960s ... :rofl: ....


Malaysia independent at 1957 lah. :D

Without quality education, the country will change fundamentally

Debnath Guharoy , Consultant | Tue, 03/04/2008 1:32 AM | Business

If knowledge is power, then Indonesia has a long way to go. This is not to cast aspersions on the country, but to highlight an opportunity for investors. When all the facts are considered, it makes a lot more sense to invest in a school than in another shopping mall.

Of all Indonesians over the age of 14, only 5 percent have any education beyond high school. Of the remaining 95 percent, only a third have finished high school. Surprisingly, 80 percent of people are of the view that school graduates are adequately equipped to contribute to Indonesian society.

Only 22 percent think that the education provided at "senior high school" and "university" levels is of poor quality. Half the population believes that graduates are well-rounded as well, with satisfactory levels of morality and ethics.

These views, taken from a special survey recently conducted across the country, do not vary significantly by age, gender or geography.

In total, 2,051 respondents aged 14 years and older were interviewed for the survey, conducted in tandem with Roy Morgan Single Source, the country's largest syndicated survey. The opinions expressed here are my own.

If popular perception were indeed reality, then all would appear to be well on the education front. But to anyone fortunate enough to have received a quality education, that perception should pose a problem.

Without exposure to anything better, without the ability to make any comparisons, anyone of modest means is instinctively grateful for whatever he or she receives. In most developing countries, this is the paradigm that the ruling elite uses to exploit the less fortunate.

Without empowerment, inequality continues to persist without much protest, year after year. Yet it should be obvious that economic power can only be built with a well-equipped workforce, in turn creating consumers with real spending power.

In other words, this is a problem that represents a major opportunity. Not everybody needs a university degree, but everybody does need a particular skill to make a livelihood, to contribute to society, to help build the nation.

But there are few schools in Indonesia that teach the essential trades that would empower youth from even the most humble of homes to build a future.

Unfortunately, it takes more than a small business owner to start a school of any significant size. At the grassroots level, the vacuum is being filled with funds from overseas facilitating schools providing free education, many with a religious rather than a secular curriculum.

With little ado, the government recently accepted the view that laws influenced by sharia already implemented in some 50 municipalities are not unconstitutional. Instead of shockwaves rippling across the country, in lieu of howls of protest, there seems to be only a sense of quiet despair among the secular sections of Indonesian society.

The media has failed to draw enough attention to a fundamental change that will slowly change the very character of Indonesia.

Emboldened by these first 50, mayors across the archipelago will institute their own versions of sharia law, born from little more than ignorance and bigotry.

Yet anybody with even a cursory knowledge of Islamic tradition knows that the faith was born with the recognition of other religions, cultures and practices.

Education is the primary defense against intolerance. In its absence, it took a dictator to enshrine and protect Indonesia's secular constitution, years ago. Today, a government with a popular mandate and high approval rating is allowing that secular character to be whittled away.

The world is watching, not just the nervous minorities.

The business community also has remained silent. If institutions such as the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas), the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) and the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) cannot see what is coming, they are hiding their heads in the sand. If they don't raise their voices, they aren't doing their jobs.

It may not be fashionable, and perhaps there are no insider deals to be made, but unless the business community gets involved in education, it will have itself to blame. On the other hand, the opportunity is large enough for the government to encourage a coalition of forces, supported by appropriate incentives.

Entrepreneurs, state-owned banks and provincial governments working together can build trade schools across the country, empowering underprivileged youth coming out of schools. There are businesses hiring untrained staff today that would benefit from alumni placements tomorrow. Privately owned universities have sprung up, but there is visibly room for more.

More importantly perhaps, it is the millions of school graduates who need a helping hand.

Again, no charity is required: just good business sense on the part of all concerned. That could include successful trade schools and polytechnics from around the world, looking at investment opportunities.

After all, the future of a stable Asia could well be at stake, starting right here in Indonesia.

02/23/08 01:05
iBiotech 2008 roadshow to hit four cities in Indonesia

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - "iBiotech 2008", a grand biotechnological roadshow will for the very first time be launched in four cities in Indonesia to introduce science, biotechnology in particular, to the public.

"iBiotech 2008 will hold interesting interactive biotechnological experiments for 7th and 12th grade pupils, spokesman for iBiotech 2008 Hosea S. Handoyo said in a press release in Jakarta on Friday.

The four cities are Jakarta on March 3 at the Rawamangun Lab School, di Bandung on March 5 at the Taruna Bakti Complex, Jl. Riau, in Yogyakarta on March 7 Maret at the Pharmaceutical Facultry of Gajah Mada University, and in Surabaya on March 10 at the Medical Faculty of Airlangga University.

Hosea said that actually bioteknologi has now become an interesting topic of discussions in the world of science in the last few decades. Through biotechnology the human race derived various benefits like in discovering new medical drugs and superior fruits.

Unfortunately, he said, in Indonesia the people has yet to be familiarized with biotechnology although Indonesia has abundant biotechnological resources. In the meantime, Indonesia has yet to properly apply modern biotechnology like enzyme technogology and DNA manipulation.

However, generally people in Indonesia are already quite familiar with traditional technological products like soybean curd or tofu (tahu), fermented soybean cake (tempe), and soy cause (kecap), he said.

This program has been adopted from BioPop, a program on introducing science to the people in Europe with great success in Bologna, Italy, and in Delft, the Netherlands, in 2005 and 2006 by the Indonesian Biotechnology Students Forum (IBSF) with support of the Genomic Network for Young Scientists (GeNeYouS) of the Netherlandsd, and the Netherlands Education Support Office (NESO) in Indonesia.

The project also has the support of the Research and Technology Ministry in Indonesia, HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, the pharmaceutical faculty of the Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta and the medical faculty of Airlangga University in Surabaya.

"IBSF has invited Terry Vrijenhoek, MSc., chairman of GeNeYouS, a young researcher, and a steering committee of BioPop to join us. Terry will introduce science which is not boring us," he said. (*)

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Jakarta - Partners in Learning mempersembahkan National Innovative Teacher Competition 2008.

National Innovative Teacher Competition 2008 adalah penghargaan bagi Bapak/Ibu Guru yang telah berhasil menyampaikan bahan ajar kepada siswa secara kreatif dan inovatif berbasis teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) / multimedia dan dengan metode yang tepat.

Bukti keberhasilan ditunjukkan melalui laporan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) yang membuktikan keunggulan dan kelemahan metode kreatif dan inovatif berbasis TIK / multimedia tersebut.


SYARAT PESERTA

1. Guru (SD/MI, SMP/MTs atau SMA/MA/SMK), baik sekolah negeri maupun swasta di seluruh daerah di Indonesia
2. Warga negara Indonesia (WNI) dan bukan anggota panitia/penyelenggara kompetisi
3. Belum pernah menjadi juara / pemenang pada kompetisi sebelumnya
4. Tiap peserta hanya diperkenankan mengirim 1 (satu) buah proposal / hasil karya
5. Peserta tidak dipungut biaya apapun selama proses penjurian / kompetisi berlangsung

CARA PENGIRIMAN PROPOSAL

1. Kirimkan 2 (dua) buah CD-ROM yang masing-masing berisi:
* a. Folder "proposal" dengan isi:
* Kartu identitas guru yang masih aktif yang di-scanned
* Surat Rekomendasi dari Sekolah (format bebas) yang di-scanned
* Dokumen proposal / laporan dengan berupa .doc atau .rtf sesuai template format
* b. Foder "materi" dengan isi:
* Materi/program berbasis TIK / multimedia yang digunakan untuk proses belajar-mengajar di kelas
* Pedoman/petunjuk penggunaan materi/program (apabila ada)
* Dokumen lainnya yang diperlukan atau terkait (apabila ada)
2. Template format proposal / laporan dapat di-download di sini
3. 2 (dua) buah CD-ROM tersebut di atas, dikirimkan langsung via pos tercatat ke:

Panitia National Innovative Teacher Competition 2008
Agranet Multicitra Siberkom (up: Tina Arvianh)
Aldevco Octagon Building Lt.5
Jl. Warung Jati Barat Raya No.75
Jakarta 12740

CD-ROM ditunggu paling lambat tanggal 6 April 2008 (cap pos).

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KODAK EasyShare V803 (senilai Rp 2.000.000,-)
(32 MB, 12x optical zoom, 6.1 MPixel, SD/MMC Slot, Video)

(Seluruh pengirim proposal akan mendapatkan sertifikat keikutsertaan. Sedangkan semi-finalis akan mendapatkan workshop pengayaaan materi dan wawasan dari para pakar dan praktisi yang berkompeten di bidangnya, selama 3 hari secara cuma-cuma di Jogja. Adapun pemenang 1 s/d 3 berkesempatan mendapatkan peluang untuk mengikuti Microsoft Regional / Worldwide Innovative Teacher Competition di luar negeri)

ASPEK PENILAIAN

1. Implementasi materi pembelajaran berbasis multimedia (teknologi informasi dan komunikasi) secara nyata di kelas
2. Kadar manfaat materi untuk peningkatan hasil belajar siswa dapat diungkapkan dengan jelas dan terukur
3. Kreatifitas, orisinalitas, serta akan lebih baik jika mampu bersifat edutaintment (education - entertaintment)
4. Kesesuaian dengan KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan)
5. Kemampuan penyampaian / presentasi proposal dan/atau materi pembelajaran yang fokus pada sasaran dan mudah dipahami

Keputusan juri adalah mutlak dan tidak dapat diganggu-gugat. Tidak diadakan surat-menyurat atau korespondensi dalam bentuk apapun dengan panitia atau dewan juri terkait dengan proses seleksi/penilaian hasil karya/proposal peserta.

Seluruh transportasi dan akomodasi bagi para semifinalis dan finalis untuk ke, dari dan selama di Jogja / Jakarta dalam rangka penjurian, ditanggung sepenuhnya oleh panitia.

TANGGAL PENTING (tentative)

• 6 April 2008 : Batas akhir pengiriman proposal dan materi
• 15 April 2008 : Pengumuman 30 Semi Finalis (melalui situs, e-mail dan telepon)
• 26 – 28 April 2008 : Workshop Semi Finalis di Jogja
• 29 April 2008 : Perbaikan Proposal Semi Finalis dan Penjurian di Jogja
• 30 April 2008 : Pengumuman 10 Finalis (face-to-face)
• 1 Mei 2008 : Penjurian Finalis di depan Panelis Dewan Juri (Jogja atau Jakarta)
• 2 Mei 2008 : Seminar Umum dan Pengumuman Pemenang (Jogja atau Jakarta)

09/03/08 19:32
41 PTN se-Indonesia Tinggalkan SPMB

Surabaya (ANTARA News) - Sebanyak 41 Perguruan Tinggi Negeri (PTN) se-Indonesia dalam pertemuan di ITS Surabaya, Minggu, sepakat untuk meninggalkan Seleksi Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru (SPMB).

"Masalahnya, sistem pengelolaan keuangan dalam SPMB yang selama ini diselenggarakan Perhimpunan SPMB Nasional dinilai melanggar aturan," kata Sekjen Paguyuban Rektor PTN se-Indonesia Prof DR H Haris Supratno.

Ketika dikonfirmasi ANTARA News Surabaya usai pertemuan yang dihadiri Rektor PTN se-Indonesia itu, rektor Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa) itu mengatakan, pengganti SPMB adalah Ujian Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Nasional (UMPTN).

"UMPTN tidak akan dilaksanakan panitia tersendiri seperti SPMB, namun dilaksanakan secara bersama oleh pimpinan PTN se-Indonesia dengan sistem kepanitiaan mulai panitia pusat, koordinator wilayah, dan panitia pelaksana," katanya.

Menurut dia, panitia pusat disepakati di Surabaya dengan sekretariat di Universitas Airlangga (Unair) Surabaya dengan wakil ketua dari UNY Yogyakarta dan Unram Mataram, sedangkan sekjen dari Unesa dan bendahara dari Unair.

"Untuk korwil, korwil timur diketuai ITS Surabaya, korwil tengah dipimpin Undip Semarang, dan korwil barat ditangani IPB Bogor. Semuanya akan diatur bergiliran pada setiap tiga tahun sekali," katanya.

Untuk panitia pelaksana, katanya, akan dilaksanakan PTN masing-masing, tapi di Surabaya ada lima PTN yang sepakat bersatu dalam struktur panitia pelaksana yakni ITS, Unair, Unesa, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, dan Unijoyo Bangkalan.

"Jadi, sistemnya bersifat swakelola mulai dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, hingga pengawasan dilakukan PTN, tapi orang luar tetap ada seperti pemborong atau tenaga ahli, namun jumlahnya tak boleh melebihi 50 persen," katanya.

Ditanya sistem penyelenggaraan UMPTN dan pengelolaan keuangannya, ia mengatakan calon mahasiswa langsung mendaftar ke Bank Mandiri dengan menyebutkan ikut IPC atau IPA/IPS.

"Kalau IPC ada tiga pilihan program studi, sedangkan IPA/IPS ada dua pilihan program studi. Kalau tiga pilihan, maka Bank Mandiri akan mentransfer PTN yang menjadi pilihan pertama dengan uang 55 persen, pilihan kedua 30 persen, dan pilihan ketiga 15 persen," katanya.

Untuk dua pilihan, katanya, Bank Mandiri akan mentransfer PTN yang menjadi pilihan pertama dengan uang 60 persen dan pilihan kedua 40 persen. "Semuanya akan ditransfer ke rekening rektor PTN masing-masing," katanya.

Dari rektor itulah, katanya, uang akan disetorkan ke kas negara sebagai PNBP (Pendapatan Negara Bukan Pajak) dan pada saatnya akan dicairkan rektor masing-masing sebagai dana pelaksanaan UMPTN.

"Dana pelaksanaan itu akan diatur dengan prosentase sesuai kebutuhan untuk peserta, panitia pusat, korwil, panitia pelaksana, dan PTN pilihan. Rektor yang akan membagi dana itu untuk peserta, panitia, dan korwil," katanya.

Ia mengatakan proses pengelolaan keuangan itu agak rumit, namun hal itu tidak akan menyalahi aturan. "Kami juga sudah sepakat dengan KPPN agar pencairan keuangan terealisir dalam tiga jam, asalkan ada bukti setor," katanya.

Untuk penggunaan keuangan, katanya, semuanya juga harus memakai tender (barang) dan seleksi terbuka (tenaga ahli), tapi pembuatan soal ujian yang tergolong rahasia negara dapat dilakukan tanpa tender sesuai Keppres 80/2003.

Secara terpisah, Rektor ITS Surabaya Prof Ir Priyo Suprobo MS PhD menilai setiap PTN sebenarnya sudah mempunyai pengalaman untuk menyelenggarakan tes masuk secara swakelola yakni penyelenggaraan tes masuk non-SPMB. (*)

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09/03/08 19:32
41 PTN se-Indonesia Tinggalkan SPMB



lah?
pada mo ngikut kayak mode2 UM UGM ato USM ITB?
ujian mandiri smua tuh,

btw, udah ada blm ya, thread yang isinya foto2 high school private ato state di Indonesia? pasti banyak yg ngepost,

15/03/08 21:18
14 Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia Promosi di Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - Sebanyak 14 perguruan tinggi Indonesia berpromosi di tiga kota besar di Malaysia, yakni Kuala Lumpur, Kota Bahru (Kelantan), dan Kota Kinabalu (Sabah).

"Kami sangat menyambut positif promosi pendidikan ini, terutama di Malaysia, untuk menghilangkan opini Indonesia hanya mampu mengekspor tenaga kerja kasar," kata Kuasa Usaha Ad-Interim KBRI Kuala Lumpur Tatang B Razak ketika membuka paviliun Indonesia di pusat perbelanjaan terbesar di Kuala Lumpur, Mid Valley, Sabtu.

Perguruan tinggi yang berpromosi untuk menjaring mahasiswa Malaysia itu antara lain ITB, Univ Padjadjaran, Univ Hasanudin, UGM, ITS, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Sekolah Tinggi Seni Bandung, dan satu universitas swasta Univ Gunadharma.

Sebanyak 14 universitas itu mengikuti "The 23rd Malaysia Education Fair" di Kuala Lumpur 15-16 Maret 2008, Kota Bahru negara bagian Kelantan 20-21 Maret 2008, dan Kota Kinabalu negara bagian Sabah, 29-30 Maret 2008.

Dengan adanya promosi pendidikan ini turut membuktikan bahwa Indonesia mampu mengembangkan jasa pendidikan ke tingkat internasional, kata Tatang.

Menurut atase pendidikan KBRI Imran Hanafi, studi yang diminati mahasiswa Malaysia belajar ke Indonesia saat ini ialah kedokteran dan kesenian.

"Tahun 2006, mahasiswa Malaysia yang studi ke Indonesia merosot hanya menjaring 542 orang, tahun 2007 naik lagi menjadi 1.066 mahasiswa, dan diharapkan tahun ini meningkat lagi," kata Imran.

"Hingga saat ini ada sekitar 5.600 mahasiswa Malaysia studi di Indonesia, sementara mahasiswa Indonesia yang studi di Malaysia sekitar 14.000 mahasiswa," katanya. (*)

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lah?
pada mo ngikut kayak mode2 UM UGM ato USM ITB?
ujian mandiri smua tuh,

btw, udah ada blm ya, thread yang isinya foto2 high school private ato state di Indonesia? pasti banyak yg ngepost,
Udah pernah ada. Search aja :)

^^ ok

Antara , Kendari | Sat, 04/26/2008 3:41 PM | Headlines

National Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo said Saturday regencies should not compete to establish universities as it would backfire on the development process.

"It would be better if regencies focused on establishing polytechnics with skills needed by companies," Bambang told participants of a coordination meeting on education development
in Kendari.

He also urged regencies to open more vocational schools where the graduates could be easily recruited by local industries.

For example, Buton and Wakatobi regencies in Southeast Sulawesi could develop vocational schools on tourism and fisheries due to the regencies' high potential in those areas, he said.

gw baca di koran

Indonesia dapet emas lagi di Olimpiade Fisika :okay:

gw baca di koran

Indonesia dapet emas lagi di Olimpiade Fisika :okay:

Hebat..............ya....:okay::okay:
Ditengah-tengah keterpurukan ternyata dunia pendidikan masih bisa memberikan kebanggan.
:banana::banana:

masalahnya abis itu anak2 yang juara dikasi beasiswa dari negara lain..
langsung sekolah disitu, ya kerja disitu, ya besar disitu
bukan di INdo...

setau gw sih..

masalahnya abis itu anak2 yang juara dikasi beasiswa dari negara lain..
langsung sekolah disitu, ya kerja disitu, ya besar disitu
bukan di INdo...

setau gw sih..

Begitulah negara kita, Jika ada sosok intelektual yang hebat dikirim keluar negeri, celakanya setelah itu dibiarkan saja. Sehingga mereka lebih cenderung untuk tetap tinggal di sana dari pada kembali ke negara asalnya.

^^ tu dy indonesia sering kecolongan di situ,,
orang2 pinter malah yang mbiayai luar negeri, suruh berkarya di sono,
asataga :ohno:
ga tau knp ya, kok murid2 indo di sekolah belajar semua mapel tp bisa juara dapet emas gitu
yang luar aja belajar mapelnya ga sebanyak di indo mlah ga dpt apa2
tp kata guru di skul, anak2 indo tu pinter krn satu hal:
mereka dari kecil dulu minumnya ASI, makanya mereka pinter kyk gitu

Indonesia Pockets three golds in Asian Physics Olympiad
By Eliswan Azly

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - After making a great achievement in in last year`s physics olympics in China, now the Indonesian physics olympiad team (TOFI) had proven their ability in grabbing three golds in the ninth Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in Mongolia.

Although the contest is still underway from April 20 to 28, the Indonesian team succeeded in grabbing three golds, one silver, one bronze and four honorable citations in the ninth Asian Physics Olympiad contest.

In the contest, Indonesia ranked sixth along with China, Taiwan, Vietname, Thailand and Singapore.

TOFI chairman Prof Yohanes Surya said on Sunday that the success was a good achievement that deserved appropriate attention.

"This achievement will also give a new hope to Indonesia that in the future our team will be able to compete with other big and advanced countries," he said.

The high scores of the Indonesian team in the international contest was reached by Adam Badra Cahaya representing the state high school SMA I of Jember, East Java.

According to Surya, such a high score recorded by Adam also indicated that it was time for TOFI to take human resources from the region during the contest for the sake of Indonesian progress.

Last year, Indonesian students snatched only two gold medals, three silvers, two bronzes and an honorable citation, at the eighth Asian Physics Olympiad in Shanghai, China.

While the Indonesian team at that time did not retain its tournament champion status, it managed to achieve the highest score in the experiments, TOFI spokeswoman Sri Setryowati was quoted as saying by www.kompas.com news portal.

Another group of the Indonesian students also won their first silver medal in the 14th International Conference of Young Scientists in St. Petersburg, Russia, held from April 21 to April 27, TOFI said.

The great success was recorded in the 37th International Physics Olympiad in Singapore during which five bright Indonesian students managed to bag four golds and one silver.

Although still below China, which grabbed most the gold medals with five in the senior level event, Yohanes Surya said the medal tally was the country`s best-ever result after winning two golds in 2005 and two in the 2004 Olympiad.

"We aim to beat China as the defending champion next time, especially as China will play host and formulate the competition tests," he said.

To compete at the event, members of the team left regular schooling for about a year to follow a tightly scheduled training program where they solve a range of tough physics problems.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also received the five students at his office.

One of the students, Jonathan Pradana Mailoa, was also named the "Absolute Winner" at the Olympiad by scoring the highest points for his experiment, beating 386 participants in the July 8-16, 2007 competition in Singapore.

Held in Ulananbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, the contest was participated in by 18 countries, namely Australia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Laos, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Macao (China), Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbakistan and Vietnam.

The Indonesian team in the contest consisted of eight students and two leaders, namely Hendra Kwee Phd and Dr Sastra Kusuma Wijaya. In the team, there were also three students functioning as guest team.

The eigth students are Adam Badra Cahaya (SMAN I, Jember), Made Surya Adhiwirawan (SMAN 1, Denpasar), Rudy Handoko Tanin (SMA Sutomo, Medan), Azzis Adi Suryono (SMAN I, Cilacap), Kevin Winata (SMAK I Penabur, Jakarta), Tyas Kosasih (SMA Taruna Nusantara, Magelang), Winson (SMAK 1 Penabur, Jakarta) and Panji Achmari (SMAN 1, Yogyakarta).

As a gauge for the TOFI team before their contest in the Asian Physics Olympiad, the ability of the participatns has to be tested through a number of theories and experience made by the Physics Department of the Gadjah Mada University.

The Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team (TOFI) was neither started in Jakarta nor in any place in Indonesia, but at the William and Mary colleges, Virginia, USA in 1992. Yohanes Surya and Agus Ananda were both physics graduate students at the college, and took the initiative to invite a team from Indonesia to participate in the 24th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) that would be held at the college.

Prof. Hans Von Bayer, the Olympiad coordinator, kindly allowed us to participate. "We also received assistance from the Department of Physics of the University of Indonesia, our alma mater in Jakarta to conduct a long distance selection process. About 75 students took part in the qualifying examination and mostly came from Java, the main island in Indonesia," Surya said.

In 1996-1998 the physics Olympiad became increasingly popular. Many students showed their keen interest to participating. "We saw a positive trend where more rural students managed to enter the final qualifying round and even being selected into the core team," he said.
(*)

Germany grants 33 scholarships to Indonesian academician

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Federal Republic of Germany officially awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) long-term scholarships to 33 young Indonesian academicians.

The awarding of the scholarships was held at the German embassy here during a farewell party for Mrs Ilona Krueger-Rechmann, Director of DAAD Jakarta Office who will be returning to her country in July this year.

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation, the Indonesian scientists and professionals will take part in master`s or PhD programs at renowned German universities, German Charge d`Affaires to Indonesia Mr Hans Joerg Brunner said on the occasion.

The scholarship awardees had been selected by a joint Indonesian-German Committee of Scientists.

Since the beginning of the exchange program between the two countries several decades ago, about 25,000 Indonesian students and scientists have studied or done research work in Germany.

In the meantime, Mr Hans Joerg Brunner, the German Charge d`Affaires, in his address said the granting of the scholarships was a manifestation of the Indonesian-German close relations in the field of education.

Strengthening cooperation in the educational sector would contribute to the improvement of human resources in Indonesia. Development in many sectors could only materialize if it was supported with professional and skilled human resources, he said.

Not only in education, but his country would give more attention to economic cooperation, he said, adding the bilateral relations between the two countries were close and harmonious.

"In the future, not only Indonesian students continued their study in Germany, but German students will also get a similar opportunity in Indonesia, he said.

Nowadays, Germany is still popular as a place for higher education of Indonesians.

About 25,000 Indonesian students chosen German universities. Therefore, for Indonesian students, Germany was the first destination in Europe and the fourth in the world.

The German Academic Exchange Service is one of the world`s largest intermediary organization in the field of science and is also supporting the international academic exchange between Germany and other countries.

Under its different exchange programs, DAAD awards around 400 scholarships to Indonesians for academic studies and research work each year.
(*)

-wrong thread- :D

Begitulah negara kita, Jika ada sosok intelektual yang hebat dikirim keluar negeri, celakanya setelah itu dibiarkan saja. Sehingga mereka lebih cenderung untuk tetap tinggal di sana dari pada kembali ke negara asalnya.

Yah susah juga yah, selama Depdiknas masih dipimpin Bambang S... yang membanggakan proyek UN nya itu. Kalo gak salah JK juga pendukung berat UN...

^^ UN kemaren dipandang cukup membuat khawatir murid, karena:
1. mapel yang diujikan menjadi 6 mapel
2. standar kelulusan naik menjadi 5,25 (standar ini akan terus naik kabarnya hingga 7,0)
3. dalam 1 hari diujikan 2 mapel sekaligus
kemaren liat di tv JK yang memandang layak tidaknya seorang siswa lulus hanya dapat diukur dari angka, yaitu nilai UN.

tp gw denger brita di TV anak2 SMA Jakarta blg UN-nya gampang koq.. :D

itu mah pas hari pertama ato pas matematika
soalnya emang ga susah,
tp abis hari ke-2 yaitu kimia, di berita muncul lagi klo anak2 ama guru2 jakarta yang dari sekolah unggulan aja bilang soalnya susah bgt,tingkat tinggi
mereka ampe ragu2 bs lulus karena kimia

^^ anak2 skul g ( di cerbon ) jg bilang gitu. Kimia nya agak susah, padahal yang ditakutin Biologi malah gampang :)

hari ini hardiknas loh :D

^^ hardiknas paling2 cuma diperingati dengan upacara
seremonial aja,
^^ anak2 skul g ( di cerbon ) jg bilang gitu. Kimia nya agak susah, padahal yang ditakutin Biologi malah gampang :)
sebenernya konsep2 dasar smua kebanyakan, tapi tipe2 soalnya ga biasa seperti yang kita kerjain waktu latihan ujian:nuts:

hardiknas itu HARI PENDIDIKAN NAAS ya ? :D

naas bgt pendidikan kita :fiddle:

^^ UN kemaren dipandang cukup membuat khawatir murid, karena:
1. mapel yang diujikan menjadi 6 mapel
2. standar kelulusan naik menjadi 5,25 (standar ini akan terus naik kabarnya hingga 7,0)
3. dalam 1 hari diujikan 2 mapel sekaligus
kemaren liat di tv JK yang memandang layak tidaknya seorang siswa lulus hanya dapat diukur dari angka, yaitu nilai UN.

Jadi kalo tiap hari bolos... gak pernah masuk kelas... senang 'bully'... kurang ajar ama guru dan ortu.... dsb... tapi UN nya dapat rata2 100... anak itu dipandang layak lulus??

Hebat sekali cara berpikir JK ini...

Green School (http://www.greenschool.org)


VISION AND PHILOSOPHY

Who are we?
We are an international group of educators, environmentalists, and business professionals who have combined our expertise to create a school that will educate a new generation of children. Our students will be inspired thinkers and creative problem solvers, knowledgeable about all aspects of life, and capable of leading a changing and challenging world. They will know about everything from organic gardening to website design, from running a small business to offsetting carbon emissions. They will be people to be proud of, people we can trust to manage and live well in an increasingly complex world.


CURRICULUM

I have heard that this is a Waldorf / Rudolf Steiner school, is that correct?
Our curriculum actually grows from a combination of a belief in multiple intelligences and sustainable holism—the first of its kind. We respect and incorporate many of the holistic educational practices of Rudolf Steiner, but within the context of what’s required for a 21st century education. We are hands-on in the way that Steiner programs are and oriented toward art, music, and co-operation, but no single system works for all students and the addition of the idea of multiple intelligences, based on the work of Howard Gardner, will make our school an even better place for a wide variety of learners.
Is the curriculum compatible with other educational systems?
Yes. Careful detail went into the planning of the curriculum to be compatible, and in harmony with, international educational systems. In our upper grades, we are currently pursuing validation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB offers high quality programs for international education to a worldwide community of schools. There are more than 580,000 IB students enrolled in over 2,000 schools in 125 countries worldwide.
What languages are offered at the School?
Classes will be taught in English and students will also all learn Bahasa Indonesian. We will be offering instruction in other languages as well.
After graduating from Green School, where can my child continue her/his study?
Our first year of classes range from Pre-K to Class 8. A child would have to pursue a supplementary high-school education in order to be prepared for entry into college and university.

Where is the School located?
Green School is located on the beautiful Indonesian island of Bali. The village of Sibang Kaja is 20 minutes southwest of Ubud, Bali’s cultural center, and 15 minutes north of Denpasar. Please see our map on the Contact page for specific directions.

Is it true the whole campus is a farm?
The School campus is blanketed by an organic permaculture system designed by international and local experts. The framework considers all aspects of the campus design, from buildings to waste management to aquaculture ponds. Students will engage in farming, which will not only connect them to the land and what it offers, but will also provide experiential learning applicable in the real world. The garden will produce fruits, vegetables, medicine, palm sugar and even chocolate.
What is permaculture?
Permaculture is an approach to the development of agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies. It’s one of the most sustainable practices available for the production of food and the preservation of soil and water.

Who is eligible to attend?
Green School camps are open to all children regardless of what school they attend.

Jadi kalo tiap hari bolos... gak pernah masuk kelas... senang 'bully'... kurang ajar ama guru dan ortu.... dsb... tapi UN nya dapat rata2 100... anak itu dipandang layak lulus??

Hebat sekali cara berpikir JK ini...
ya seperti itulah kira2,,
orang sebandel apapun di sekolah tapi kalo UNnya 100 semua, ya lulus
tapi orang sebaik dan serajin apapun itu tapi klo UANnya jatuh di 1 mapel aja, ya ga layak lulus, contohnya banyak tuh taon kemaren2,, :nuts:

hardiknas itu HARI PENDIDIKAN NAAS ya ? :D

:lol:

ya seperti itulah kira2,,
orang sebandel apapun di sekolah tapi kalo UNnya 100 semua, ya lulus
tapi orang sebaik dan serajin apapun itu tapi klo UANnya jatuh di 1 mapel aja, ya ga layak lulus, contohnya banyak tuh taon kemaren2,, :nuts:

Iya kasian mereka.
Bertahun2 sekolah, tp lulus ato tidaknya cuma ditentukan lewat UN yg hanya beberapa hari. :nuts:

sistemnya parah sih......
menurut gw angka pelajaran sekolah harus dihitung juga....at least 50% lah

sistemnya parah sih......
menurut gw angka pelajaran sekolah harus dihitung juga....at least 50% lah

Ya iyalah, setuju sekali. Yg mengetahui daily activity dan daily performance kan sekolah. Masak yg men-judge anak itu pantas dan lulus malah tidak ada keterlibatan dari sekolah sama sekali.

Proyek UN ini memang katro, gak jelas tujuannya.

Kalo dibilang sebagai standarisasi, memangnya si Depdiknas ini sudah menyamaratakan standar2 sekolah di seluruh Indonesia, tanpa harus si pihak sekolah susah2 cari dana untuk meningkatkan standarnya??

Selama UN dijadikan HANYA SATU-SATUNYA kriteria kelulusan, sudah otomatis mengkhianati tujuan pendidikan itu sendiri.

kan beberapa pejabat emang PRO berat ama sistem Ujian Nasional
kl ga salah Jusuf Kalla juga..

^^ kapan pejabat2 yang di atas sana sadar ya?