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Which is one vehicle for forming the character of the nation, the school is the main room where the "Nation Builders" Indonesia in want will struggle took the country to compete in the global arena. Along with the rapid global challenges, educational challenge also become more and more big, this aspect which encourages learners most excellent achievement.

However, the world of education in Indonesia still has many hurdles that the quality of education with them is limited access to education, the number of teachers who have not been evenly distributed, as well as the quality of teachers themselves assessed is still lacking. Lack of access to education in Indonesia, especially in the area again leads to increased urbanization make it a science that better access in urban areas.

According to the Indonesian education activists, Anies Baswedan limited access to education in the area so the base of the rapid urbanization. "What matters, in Jabodetabek number has been proportional, but let us just say urban, outer urban Precisely in that we have a problem and that the erosive migration to Jakarta," said Anies. With no way simultaneously, Indonesian citizen driven urbanization create run due to limited facilities in the area. He assesses access to education should be in the open broadest To all citizens with the provision of tools that support the event. "If the only school in the capital district, so that far right becomes not afford school," he said.

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Beyond that, the number of teachers who mismatched with qualifying today assessed is still not evenly distributed in the area. According to Director General of Basic Education (Basic) Kemendikbud Hamid Muhammad at a time when not a few basic schools (SD) in Indonesia shortages. The number is expected to reach 112 thousand teachers.

Create overcome this, the Ministry of Education & Culture (Kemendikbud) will cooperate with local governments, either provincial or district / city, in the aspect of distribution of teachers in these areas though more evenly. "If the teacher management can be handled optimally, not partial, so that could be moved to the district or adjacent to any protected areas," said Hamid.

After That, to improve the quality of teachers, Kemendikbud will improve teacher qualifications through scholarships S-1 for teachers Schools. Hamid explained, the number of elementary school teachers in the state and private schools approximately 1,850 thousand teachers. Of these, only 60 per cent of teachers who have qualified with the title of S-1, while the other 40% who do not meet the qualifications. Each year, was set up scholarships Kemendikbud For 100 thousand prospective teachers to study in the S-1 through S-1 scholarship aid for teachers Schools. Internationally, the quality of education in Indonesia is ranked 64th out of 120 countries in all the world based on annual reports UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2012. While based Education Development Index (Education Development Index, EDI), Indonesia was ranked the ke- 69 out of 127 countries on the 2011.

In another corner, cases of children dropping out of school - school age children in Indonesia and remains high "Based on data from Kemendikbud 2010, in Indonesia there are more than 1.8 million children each yrs unable to connect education, Re is caused by three factors, the economic aspects; children - children are forced working to give economic support of the family; and a wedding at a very early age, "according to Secretary of the Directorate General of Higher Education Dr. Ir. Patdono Suwignjo, Meter. Eng, Sc in Jakarta. in the most recent report of the UN Development Events yrs 2013, Indonesia ranks 121 of 185 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) with zeros, 629. Together with figures that Indonesia lags behind the two neighboring countries of ASEAN including Malaysia (ranked 64th) and Singapore (18), while IPM in Asia Pacific region namely zero, 683.

"We must solve the problems of education, because the ownership of the key insights of the people to achieve prosperity," according to the Indonesian education figures, Anies Baswedan. In the development of education in Indonesia, the government has run a variety of policies for improving the quality of education in order to face the competition of the free world that can simultaneously apply together with the realization of the ASEAN population towards th 2015 will come.

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For help load also strengthen basic education to learners Indonesia, Kemdikbud determine curriculum can fully enforce th 2013 since the start of 2014, had even prepared give operational support costs For the curriculum. "It's ready and th front almost entirely (schools) can do the Curriculum 2013," said Deputy Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Musliar Kasim.

Curriculum 2013 the Education Unit Level Curriculum (SBC) that focuses on mastering contextual insights that fits the area and the environment respectively. The curriculum focuses on three ratings learners regarding: attitudes (honest, polite, obedient rules), skills (on the job practice / school project), and depth of knowledge. To the basic level such as primary schools, the curriculum is more concentration on the formation of attitudes and life skills, while their knowledge is 'lighter' than Level Curriculum Education Unit.

Against such an advanced level junior high and high school, serving the scientific mastery over optimized due to personal pupil is considered to have formed the basic level. According Musliar, the new curriculum can be applied to students grade 1, 2, 4 & 5; junior high school students grade 8 & 9; Similarly high school students grade 10 and 11. The Government can not forge textbooks. As progress toward the beginning of the beginning yrs, Kemendikbud will upload textbooks into internet web.

Kemendikbud can set the highest retail prices for the books that are targeted to circulate freely. Curriculum 2013 has actually been implemented since mid-yr in 2013 in many schools who have been selected, even once criticized for its implementation to be somewhat forced.

As international aid agencies working on the socio-economic development, USAID Indonesia gives emphasis to the development of quality education akbar passed by events that occurred at this time one of them is through scholarships events S2 USAID-ACHIEVEMENT. Against this yr, USAID -PRESTASI S2 provides scholarships to 31 professional Indonesia. For this event in the open common and desirable able to support the development of human resources who are competent in their field - each to a result which will make a positive contribution in their respective working environments - each after They turned to the country.