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Promoting opportunities for all

Overview

Australia is supporting helping to build or improve schools in Indonesia.

Education is the flagship program of the Australia Indonesia development partnership. Australia has a history of successful engagement in Indonesia’s education sector, with our support extending from improving access to and quality of basic education to providing scholarships.

Indonesia is working to ensure that by 2015 every Indonesian child receives at least nine years of basic education. While an estimated 96 per cent of Indonesia’s children are now enrolled for six years of primary school, only 75 per cent complete the full nine years of education.

Australia is helping Indonesia ensure more children can access education by creating new school places in the country’s poorest and most remote districts. Just as importantly as building schools, Australia is assisting Indonesia improve its education system by working with school principals to strengthen their management skills and with education officials to better manage their education budgets. Australia is also supporting Indonesia improve the quality of education in moderate Islamic schools, known as madrasah.

Priorities

Build or expand junior secondary schools to create 300,000 new school places in disadvantaged districts.
Strengthen the management and leadership skills of all 293,000 school principals, supervisors and district government education officials.
Assist 1,500 Islamic schools to meet national education standards
create networks between Australian and Indonesian teachers and students.

Supporting education in Indonesia

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Strategic goal: Promoting opportunities for all

Initiative	AusAID funding 2011–12	Total initiative funding and duration	Initiative description
Australia's Education Partnership with Indonesia	$76 million		To improve access, quality and management of education services in Indonesia.	More
Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement, Phase 2 (BRIDGE)	$0.7 million		To build networks between Australian and Indonesian teachers and students.	More
Kang Guru Indonesia	$0.5 million		To help listeners of the program including students, teachers and communities across Indonesia improve their English.	More
Australia Indonesia Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy: Knowledge Sector Initiative (AIP4)	$5 million		To enable national decision-makers to draw on high-quality analysis and policy advice, improving Indonesia’s ability to reach its poor populations with effective and well-targeted interventions.	More
SMERU Research Institute	$800,000		SMERU Research Institute (SMERU) is an independent not-for-profit institute for research and public policy studies. It undertakes applied, evidence-based research in order to provide reliable and timely analysis of socioeconomic and poverty issues. AusAID has provided funding to SMERU since 1998.	More
Australia-UNICEF Education Assistance to Papua and West Papua	$4.5 million		Supports efforts in both provinces aimed at achieving universal primary education. The assistance supports the provincial and district governments of Papua and West Papua to improve management of resources and teachers.	More
Support for Commission on Violence Against Women	$336,543.78		AusAID is supporting Komnas Perempuan to Strengthen Indonesia’s National Mechanism and Effectiveness in Promoting Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.	More
Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU)		$60 million (2012-2016)	The Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU) program aims to improve the lives of poor women in Indonesia.	More

Last reviewed: 21 June, 2012