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INTERNATIONAL | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - If he is still in school, Fikhri Ramadhan has entered the 1st grade of junior high school. The 13-year-old boy who lives in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, attended school up to 5th grade.
However, because he had time to stay in class and there was no money, he did not want to continue his education. "I was embarrassed, then I told my parents I did n't want to go to school and was allowed to," he told Kompas.com , Tuesday (15/8/2017).
He has spent his days in the past two years in the parking area of ??Taman Palem Mall, Cengkareng, West Jakarta, selling pempek.
He actually wanted to go back to school. But cost is still a constraint. The money from selling pempek is still used to help his parents. His father is just a carpenter selling agate in Pasar Susun, North Jakarta. Her mother doesn't work.
In a day, he can pocket money in the range of Rp. 50 thousand to Rp. 75 thousand after selling for about 8 hours. He gave some of the money from the sale to his parents, who are still renting a contract in Cengkareng. Some he tube.
Fikhri's story is ironic. Because, in 2013 the Government of Indonesia has launched the Anti Drop Out Movement . But 4 years later, economic problems are still a problem for children to go to school despite the increasing budget allocation for education.
In 2016 the Ministry of Education and Culture was given Rp49.23 trillion in funds . However, there are still hundreds of thousands of out-of-school children. Minister of Education and Culture, Muhadjir Effendy, on Tuesday (19/12/2017) explained that school participation rates have increased in the last five years. The number of students dropping out of school has fallen .
In 2014 there were 449,665 children, in 2015 there were 269,320 children, and in 2016 there were 217,305 children. While students who did not continue their education, in 2014 there were 1,186,475 people, in 2015 there were 912,978 people, and in 2016 there were 822,177 students.
The economy is a constraint
At the SMA and SMK levels, the highest percentage of dropout rates tends to spread across almost every island. In Aceh and North Sumatra, many students are unable to continue their high school education until the national exams.
As for SMK, the percentage of students failing to graduate in provinces such as Southeast Sulawesi and Lampung was recorded to be high.
On the island of Java, West Java is recorded as a province where students fail to continue their education at the SMK level, which is the highest compared to other provinces. school and non-school children.
According to Imam, the high number of children dropping out of school is due to economic factors . According to him, there are 40 percent of students who are proven to be in arrears in school fees and around 7 percent are recorded in arrears even though they have graduated.
In addition, the education system that uses the NUN score (National Examination Score) as a selection tool, prevents children from continuing their education. Free schooling is only valid if you manage to enter a public school. If the NUN is not sufficient, they are forced to enter the private sector at a higher cost.
According to the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) conducted by BPS in March 2016, of the total school-age children who are not in school, 23.09 percent are poor children. .
In Java, in 2016 Jakarta became the province with the highest dropout rate for elementary school, reaching 0.25 percent. In eastern Indonesia, the dropout rate has quadrupled, at 1 percent.
Eastern Indonesia for 3 years has been an area where the dropout rate is always high. This area includes West Papua, North Maluku, Papua, West Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi.
At the junior high school level, Papua and West Papua are recorded as provinces where the rate of students failing to complete education is high for the past three academic years.
Language Problem
In August 2015, Head of the Sub-Directorate of Programs and Evaluation, Directorate General of Secondary Education, Directorate of Special Education and Special Services (PKLK), Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud), Lilik Sulistyowati assessed that language is the cause of children dropping out of school in Papua.
Lilik said 90 percent of children from remote areas, especially Papua, could not speak Indonesian. They can only speak the local area. "So they are afraid to go to school because the teachers who teach use Indonesian," said Lilik, Thursday (27/8/2015).
According to Lilik, Indonesian sounds foreign to them. Learning is slow. In fact, it encourages students not to go to school.
Based on fact history, M Zaid Wahyudi, a journalist for Kompas 7 years ago, wrote that education in Papua is a complicated business and is not the only factor that causes it.
Language is one of the issues. Some tribes in Papua have the vocabulary equivalent of some four-legged animals, but some other tribes do not.
Certain tribes call all four-legged animals, ranging from pigs, cats, dogs, and goats, as wam without distinction. Dialects of several tribes that are interchanged in sounding consonants, such as "p" is pronounced "b", "j" is pronounced "y", and "s" changes to "t".
This condition makes many children from the Central Mountains unable to read fluently even though they are in high school. This condition weakens the ability of students to take lessons according to the burden of the national curriculum.
It's just a matter of language. Infrastructure, culture, and food needs are other issues that also become obstacles.
Editor :Andi Saputra
Source : Original Article International SigapNews Group Research and Development