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Management of teachers in RI needs improvement: USAID Prioritas

Education in Indonesia has continued to face obstacles, including unbalanced deployment of teachers in areas across the country, which has led to pronounced education quality gaps among the regions, an expert has said

Agus Maryono (The Jakarta Post)
Purwokerto
Wed, October 22, 2014

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ducation in Indonesia has continued to face obstacles, including unbalanced deployment of teachers in areas across the country, which has led to pronounced education quality gaps among the regions, an expert has said.

Heri Riyadi, one of facilitators in the US Agency for International Development'€™s Prioritizing Reform, Innovation and Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia'€™s Teachers, Administrators and Students (USAID Prioritas) program, said most quality teachers in Indonesia were concentrated in urban areas; therefore, there was a need for local administrations to immediately improve their teacher management, which would ensure a more balanced distribution of teachers in areas across the country in 2015.

Heri said such teacher management was urgent in order that education services in regencies and municipalities in Indonesia could be more balanced not only in quantity but also quality.

'€œQuality teachers should not be deployed to schools in urban areas only. Some of them must be placed in villages,'€ he said in Purbalingga on Wednesday.

Heri went on to say that with such balanced distribution of teachers, there would be no more gaps in the quality of education between urban and rural areas.

He said one of measures that could be taken to reduce shortages of teachers was by grouping schools that were located in relatively close areas; therefore, the adequacy ratio of teachers to students in classrooms could be tackled.

'€œAnother measure we can take is a double-class strategy, in which one teacher is allowed to teach in more than one school. This policy would automatically reduce the need for civil servant (PNS) teachers within a regency,'€ said Heri.

Nurholis, another USAID Prioritas facilitator, said that according to Government Regulation No.74/2008 on teachers, the ratio of classes should be 20:1, meaning that one teacher should teach no more than 20 students in one class.

'€œIf teacher management can be immediately implemented, the study group ratio requirement could be tackled,'€ said Nurholis, adding that the requirement would take effect on Jan.1, 2016. (ebf)(+++)

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