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Jokowi wants vocational school to have 'practical teachers'
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Climate mitigation – Students from state vocational student SMK Negeri 1 Soe dig holes to plant corn seeds using a conservation agriculture system introduced by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Indonesia in Soe, South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, on Oct.11. (JP/Djemi Amnifu)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo wants vocational schools to have “practical teachers” instead of “normative teachers” to give students necessary workplace skills.
"We have a lot of vocational schools, but in the field, 70 to 80 percent of teachers are 'normative teachers': physics, chemistry, and even civics," Jokowi said during a Bank Indonesia (BI) bankers’ dinner event in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Instead, the president wants teachers to teach students how to construct buildings, repair machines and so on. The government is currently negotiating with industry to "borrow" experts to teach in vocational schools.
Moreover, Jokowi hinted that he wanted the capacity of vocational training centers (BLK) to be increased. He mentioned that even large BLKs only produced 300 to 400 graduates every year.
"That is too small, we need millions, we must prepare this," he added. (evi)
