In Indonesia, over 530,000 have schools closed amid the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), affecting 68 million students from pre-primary through tertiary levels, and making the need for effective EdTech extremely urgent.

The appearance of a platform

There is a survey for Indonesia, reveals that the sector growth of local online learning platform such as Harukaedu, Ruangguru, and cakap

edtech is not accessible to all learner,however, and Indonesia’s education is now well equipped for quickly scaling up with online learning.

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Supply-side constraint include :

There are coupled with deman-side constraint: 

  • Difficult access to funding

  • High marginal costs, particularly to acquire and reatian new customers

  • A shortage of qualified talen to develop and maintain products.

  • A low willingness to pay from school and parents

  • Lack of digital literacy, particularly on the part of education providers

  • Poor digital infrastructure which limits connectivity in remote regions and download speeds across the country.

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constraints 

  1. The government of Indonesia could set standards for data privacy and security related to EdTech products. 

  2. EdTech firms could partner with academia and government to establish standards for performance and cost-effectiveness

  3. The government can continue to invest in improving digital infrastructure and connectivity

  4. Another key step will be to increase potential customers’ trust in these new learning and teaching tools 

  5. More effective engagements between the public and private sectors. 

  6. The public education system could partner with EdTech firms to improve teachers’ ability to deliver technology-focused content

Consequences of school closures

Unequal access to technology

Unequal access to educational resources

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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Free charge of education : Education in Indonesia is compulsory and provided free of charge at public schools from grades one to nine (six years of elementary education and three years of junior secondary education). The official age of entry is seven, but many pupils enter at the age of six. The Indonesian government plans to extend compulsory education to grade 12, but these plans have not yet been implemented due to the associated costs and other reasons.

The Curriculum: Elementary education (pendidikan dasar) lasts for six years (grades one to six). The curriculum comprises basic subjects like religious education, national philosophy and civics, Indonesian, mathematics, science, social science, arts, and physical education. Indonesia’s government revised the national school curriculum in 2013 to place greater emphasis on “moral character education” and creative thinking (Kurrikulum 2013). As a result, the number of mandatory subjects at the elementary level was reduced and subjects like English and information technology were removed from the elementary cycle, while the teaching of science was scaled back. However, the nationwide implementation of this new curriculum has been delayed since many schools and teachers are not yet ready for the changes, so that most schools still teach the old curriculum. One challenge is that curricula and textbooks are designed nationally in Jakarta, but teachers are trained locally in the regions.

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