One-half of the Rp 224.4 trillion (US$24.45 billion) in the education budget proposed for next year has been allocated for ensuring all Indonesian children complete the full nine years of compulsory education.
National Education Minister Bambang Soedibyo said Friday , September 5th, however, the greatest portion of the funds would go to teachers in the form of monthly salaries and allowances.
"Most of the budget will be channeled to the regions through the General Allocation Funds (DAU) to pay state teachers and subsidize private, as mandated by the 2005 law on teachers and lecturers," Bambang said after a coordinating meeting on the education budget.
Of the 2.2 million estimated teachers across the country, 80 percent worked in primary and junior high schools; therefore, Bambang said, their salaries and allowances would use up most of the budget allocated for basic compulsory education.
The remaining 50 percent of the 2009 education budget will be used to, among others, provide more research funds for universities; fund the School Operational Assistance (BOS) program which helps schools in low-income communities; and develop vocational schools.
He said he hoped the BOS funds could increase by at least 20 percent from this year's figures, which amount to Rp 254,000 per elementary school student per year and Rp 354,000 per junior high school student per year.
The coordinator of the expert team for education funding standards at the agency for national standards in education (BNSP), Abbas Ghozali, said in a discussion last month BOS funds should reach Rp 509,535 per year for each elementary school student and Rp 545,203 per year for each junior high school student.
Bambang declined to give more details about figures.
He said the National Education, Religious Affairs and Finance ministries along with the National Development Planning Board would calculate the budget for each education line item in the next two days.
The education ministry's secretary general Dodi Nandika said the basic education funds would also be used to improve access to and quality of basic education, fund basic education equivalency degree programs, renovate old school buildings, build new ones and continue the BOS and textbook procurement programs.
Dodi said the education budget would not be implemented solely through the education ministry but also through the Religious Affairs Ministry, which oversees religious schools, and several other ministries.
For this fiscal year, the education ministry received Rp 52 trillion, and the Religious Affairs Ministry obtained Rp 12 trillion.
For next year, the education ministry should receive roughly between Rp 70 trillion and Rp 80 trillion, Bambang said.
source:
Nota Keuangan 2009,
the Jakarta Post
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