Spending More or Spending Better : Improving Education Financing in Indonesia, Extended Executive Summary
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, with more than 238 million people living in an archipelago comprising over 17,000 islands. Over the past decade the Indonesian economy has experienced positive economic growth, reduced pov...
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World Bank, Jakarta
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/03/17537927/spending-more-or-spending-better-improving-education-financing-indonesia-vol-2-2-extended-summary http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13207 |
| Summary: | Indonesia is the world's fourth
most populous country, with more than 238 million people
living in an archipelago comprising over 17,000 islands.
Over the past decade the Indonesian economy has experienced
positive economic growth, reduced poverty, and made
continued progress towards many of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). For example, Indonesia has already
met and surpassed projected reductions in the number of
underweight children under five years old to below 18
percent and is on track to meeting its targets for reducing
overall child mortality and the targets for achieving
universal basic education. While clear progress has been
made on reducing poverty rates, inequality has persisted,
with the result that many children and families have not
shared in these gains. Over 30 million Indonesians live
below the poverty line (US $2 per day) and half of all
households are clustered around the poverty line. Of the
poor, 65 percent currently live in rural areas. For these
families, national economic improvements have brought only
modest gains in health and education, putting
children's development at risk and threatening national
progress. A notable achievement for Indonesia is that
primary school enrollment is now near 100 percent for boys
and girls of all income levels. However, as children move
through the primary years, the enrollment disparities seen
in Early Childhood Education and Development, or ECED
services re-emerge. Educational attainment profiles reveal
that while almost all children from all segments of society
start primary school, children from poorer households and
children from rural areas have more difficulties progressing
from lower levels of education to higher levels. Only 55
percent of rural children make it to junior secondary
school, and less than a quarter enroll in senior secondary.
In contrast, 80 percent of urban children make it to junior
secondary school and almost two-thirds enroll in senior secondary. |
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