Time for a Market-Oriented System
Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) and the Taman Siswa nationalist education institution have successfully developed education systems of their own that are different from the uniformity that marks the government's. Character building is necessary, yet market orientation is no less important.
January 30, 2001
IF an employee is incompetent, who is to blame? This question often comes up, especially when a personnel manager faces the problem of substandard human resources. At best, curricula are faulted for not being oriented to the demands of the manpower market.
For years now, a lack of orientation toward the manpower market has been the most glaring weakness of the Indonesian education world. While that is true, globalization can be of benefit only i
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