Asslamualaikum wr. wb.

Ladies and gentlemen

It be a great honor for me, to stand right here in front of you all to give a presentation about
education under the title "Education in Indonesia"

Indonesian is a great country. It has so many natural resources that can be used. It has so
many beautiful palaces that can mesmerize people. It is so beautiful to live here peacefully
with different cultures, languages, and religions.
However, why are there still many people who live under poverty in this country? The only
answer to this question is because our human resources are still low in the term of education.

If you have ever heard about the news about our international education rank, you would be
surprised. As quoted form Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2017 which is
published by UNESCO that our international education rank is at 108th place from 129
surveyed countries all over the world. This rank is lower than in some years before

It opens a question that runs in my head, what happen with our education? Indonesia is a
great country with many talented young generations. It was undoubted again that there are
so many Indonesian students who win the international education Olympiads such as
mathematics, chemical, physics and other. But why our international education rank is still
low. So what happen with with our education?

Ladies and gentlemen

There must be a reason why our human resources and our global rank in education are still
low. One of the reasons is that our education is expensive. For middle up to high class people
the cost of our education is nothing. But for those who live in lower economic class, the cost
of our education is beyond their reach. Many of them even abandon their duty to go to school
just because they have to work to fulfill their needs.

Our government has made a policy recently to overcome the problem in our education. The
policy is increasing national educational budget up to 20% from APBN. This budget later on
is used to make education is reachable for low economic level society; to improve teachers’
quality with a program which well known as “sertifikasi”; and to provide school facilities such
as library, classroom, laboratory, and sport hall.

Ladies and gentlemen

We hope the policy that the government made will make our educational quality better. Of
course as a student, we don’t just sit down and relax without doing something. Good or bad
the quality of education of our country also depend us. If we want to change our bad
educational paradigm, let’s begin with improving our achievement with studying hard for the
sake of our education.

I hope this speech that I deliver today will be useful for you all. Thank you so much for your
attention. The last I say:

Saat ini Indonesia berada di posisi 108 di dunia dengan skor 0,603. Secara umum
kualitas pendidikan di tanah air berada di bawah Palestina, Samoa dan Mongolia. Hanya
sebanyak 44% penduduk menuntaskan pendidikan menengah. Sementara 11% murid
gagal menuntaskan pendidikan alias keluar dari sekolah.