High cost Education

High cost Education Quality education is expensive. This sentence often appear to the expensive cost that should be issued to the public benches of education. High cost of education from Kindergarten (TK) to university (PT) to make the poor have no option other than not in school. The poor should not be school. To enter kindergarten, and only at this time SDN required cost Rp 500,000, - to Rp 1,000,000. In fact, there are a levy on the Rp 1 million. SLTP entry / Senior High School could reach Rp 1 million to Rp 5 million. The high cost of education is now free from government policies that apply MBS (School-Based Management). MBS in Indonesia is in fact meant as an effort to make the mobilization of funds. Therefore, the School Committee / Board of Education, which is always required MBS organ of the elements. Employers have access to a wider capital. The result, after the School Committee established, all levies, the money always wear a mask, "according to School Committee decision." However, at the level of implementation, it is not transparent, because the superintendent and elected to the School Committee members are the people close to the Head of School. As a result, the School Committee policy is only to be the Principal, and MBS is only a release from the legitimacy of the state's responsibility towards the problems of education of his people. This situation will worsen with the introduction of the draft Education Law (draft BHP). Changing the status of the property from public education to shape the law clearly has a political and economic consequences are very large. With the change in the status that the Government can easily throw responsibility on the citizen education to the owner of a legal identity is not clear. University of any changes to the Law (BHMN). The emergence BHMN and MBS are some examples of the controversial education policies. BHMN own impact on the high cost of education in some universities favorites. Privatization or weakening the role of countries in the sectors of public service is not free from pressure and debt policies to ensure the payment of debt. Foreign debts of Indonesia 35-40 percent of the national budget each year is the incentive factor privatization of education. As a result, the sector to absorb the funding of education as a victim. Education funding cut to live up to 8 percent. From the State Budget 2005 is only 5.82%, which is allocated to education. Compare with the funds to pay debt that deplete 25% shopping in the State Budget. Draft Government Regulation (RPP) of Primary and Secondary Education, and the RPP on Compulsory Education. Strengthening the privatization of education, for example, seen in Article 53 (1) of Law No. 20/2003 on National Education System. In the article mentioned, organizers and / or a formal education, which was established by the Government or the public education incorporated. Like companies, schools looking for capital to be invested in education operational. Coordinator of the NGO Education Network for Justice, Yanti Mukhtar felt that with the privatization of education means that the government has legitimize commercialization of education with the responsibility of providing education to the market. That way, schools will have the autonomy to determine the cost of their own education. Schools, of course, will determine at the high cost to improve and maintain quality. As a result, access to the people that are less able to enjoy a quality education will be limited based on social status, between the rich and the poor. The same economic diungkapan observer Revrisond Bawsir. According to him, privatization of education is a global agenda Kapitalisme that have long been designed by donor countries through the World Bank. Through the Bill Board of Education Law (draft BHP). All of education will become a legal education (BHP), which must find the source of the funds themselves. This applies to all public schools, from elementary schools to universities. For certain people, some of PTN is now changed the status of a Board of Law (BHMN) is a scourge. If the reason that quality education is to be expensive, so this argument applies only in Indonesia. In Germany, France, the Netherlands, and in some other developing countries, many universities in quality but low-cost education. Some countries have even eliminate the cost of education. Quality education may not cheap, or right, should not be cheap or free. But the problem is who should pay? The government is actually obliged to guarantee every citizen to obtain education and to ensure public access down to get quality education. However, the fact is the Government's wish to avoid responsibility. While limited funds can not be a reason for the Government to 'clean hands'.


written by: yasin