In addition, the public attention generated by the tests increases awareness of the nation's education sector as a whole. It would be interesting to develop our analysis of the education sector to the macro scale so that we could create an image of the overall condition of education in Indonesia.

Education is essentially one of the quality indicators of human resources. To achieve a structural transformation in this country, we need to invest in education to enhance the capacity of our human resources so they can provide sustainable economic growth.

In general, there are two main indicators that can describe the improvement of education in Indonesia. The first indicator is the school enrollment ratio or the percentage of students who attend classes as a percentage of all children the same school age. (By Zenathan Adnin, Jakarta)

Your comments:

How can I enter to a great university like the University of Indonesia if it's so expensive. While my parents are just low-income workers?

And I'm just one of hundreds of children in my village who have the same problems with the high cost of education.

Ika
Indonesia

If we refer to the book of Menuju Manusia Merdeka (Toward Independent People) written by Ki Hajar Dewantara, we will see the "content" of education is the most important thing, more important than the school itself, an aspect that has rarely been considered by us.

Sometimes, we need to look back at what the true purpose of education is.

Gede Widia Pratama Adhyaksa
Munchen

Twenty percent of the national budget is allocated for education to enhance teacher prosperity and quality, student achievement, and a better quality of facilities and infrastructure that schools need.

Unfortunately, this budget just goes to public schools and civil servants, whereas private schools and their teachers (and the number of private schools are much higher than public schools) can do nothing to improve either teacher or student achievement.

Although private schools received BOS the same as public schools, I was assured this incentive did not last very long, since it was just to compensate for the rising price of world petroleum at the time.

In my opinion, the government efforts to provide a better quality of education in Indonesia, espe-cially from primary to secondary schools, by increasing the national education budget, is unfair since the budget is only allocated to public schools.

As'adi
Sumenep, East Java

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