Policy Research
Tackling Indonesia’s teacher quality is a tangible way to lift the country’s learning profile.
The Government of Indonesia has established a number of policies to provide teachers with professional teaching competence. Since 2018, anyone with a bachelor’s degree is eligible to apply to pre-service Teacher Professional Education (Pendidikan Profesi Guru/PPG) held by selected teacher colleges (lembaga pendidikan tenaga kependidikan/LPTK).
For more than four decades, Indonesia has carried out a variety of teacher professional development (TPD) programmes. Yet the outcomes have fallen short.
Indonesia began decentralising its education services in 2001. Decentralisation allows local governments to create educational innovations that can accommodate their individual needs and problems. However, not all districts have the capability to birth educational innovation.
Teacher plays a key role in the learning process, yet Indonesia's teachers have been generally underperforming.
The government has made various efforts to upgrade teacher performance, including improving the education system and teacher training. However, these efforts did not have a significant impact on teachers with low competence.
