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Decentralising Indonesian Education: The Promise and the Price

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Decentralisation, School-Based Management, and Quality

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This chapter examines Indonesia’s experience of decentralisation in education. It is argued that with little experience of local democracy, unclear legislative guidelines, lack of local capacity building, ongoing factional politics, corruption and co-option of the decentralisation process by local politicians, resistance on the part of key officials and principals whose interests were threatened, educational decentralisation reforms in Indonesia were doomed. Educational decentralisation policies and reforms could have been more effective, if better prepared, and supported.

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    1This again highlights Maley’s (2002) view that decentralisation does not always bring about democracy at local level in Indonesia.

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Netherland

    Alpha Amirrachman

  2. University of Sydney, Australia

    Saefudin Syafi’i & Anthony Welch

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Amirrachman, A., Syafi’i, S., Welch, A. (2009). Decentralising Indonesian Education: The Promise and the Price. In: Zajda, J., Gamage, D. (eds) Decentralisation, School-Based Management, and Quality. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2703-0_8

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