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Title: Education in Indonesia: Trends, Differentials, and Implications for Development
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-24781-6;978-3-319-24783-0
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24783-0_12
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Abstract: Educational trends are crucial for Indonesia’s continued economic success. Over the past two decades, there have been encouraging improvements in enrolment ratios and progression of children further through Indonesia’s school system. Attendance in primary school is universal, though completion of this level is not. Increases in secondary school enrollment ratios have lagged only slightly behind those of China, Thailand and Vietnam, and Indonesia has done substantially better than India in this regard (Fig. 12.1). It has also made substantial gains in enrollment ratios at the tertiary level. Yet there are many serious problems facing Indonesia’s education system. “The gap in access to education between the rich and the poor remains wide, the quality of Indonesian education is very poor by international standards, and the significant increases in public resources allocated to the sector have yet to have a discernible impact on quality” (Suryadarma and Jones 2013: 13; see also Suharti 2013; Al-Samarrai and Cerdan-Infantes 2013; Suryahadi and Sambodho 2013). This chapter will summarize information from different sources about the progress of Indonesian education. It will make particular use of the 2010 Population Census data in novel ways: first, to check whether regional differentials in educational enrollment are related in . . .
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Authors: Jones, Gavin, W; Pratomo, Devanto
Editors: Guilmoto, Christophe, Z; Jones, Gavin, W
Pages: 195-214
Volume Title: Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publisher Location: Cham
Volume: 5
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Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Education, Other
Countries: Indonesia