Education in Indonesia

Indonesia has made improvements in enrollment and gender parity, but low learning and learning inequality are major challenges. The government is working with GPE and other partners to improve learning quality through foundational skills acquisition and character development for all students.

Indonesia’s Partnership Compact supports the country’s Merdeka Belajar (Emancipated Learning) initiative—a vehicle for transformational change in the education system through improvements in evaluation and quality assurance, teaching and learning, governance and leadership, and infrastructure and financing—and aligns partners and resources behind the prioritized reform area.

Indonesia’s priority reform focuses on four areas of change.

1. Teaching practices will improve through more effective use of self-study, direct training and collaborative learning among teachers.
2. Learning environments will be safe, inclusive, healthy, climate resilient, encouraging and meaningful for students.
3. Students with special needs and from disadvantaged groups will be better supported through improved policies and practices, like more effective use of data to identify and address students’ needs.
4. Strengthened governance and coordination of national and local education ecosystems will help ensure quality education service delivery.

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Network for Education Watch (NEW) Indonesia for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).

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• Indonesia is part of the KIX Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Pacific hub and has a KIX national delegation.
• KIX research projects:
  • Accountability for Gender Equality in Education (AGEE): Bridging the local, national and global
  • Empowering schools as frontliners: Enhancing the implementation of violence prevention and management policy in Indonesian schools

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