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Policies and practices in Vocational Education

System in Indonesia

by:
Adisti Prihandani, SS
(2011)

Part 1

As stated in 1945 Indonesian Constitution that one of the goals of Republic Of

Indonesia is to educate its citizens, so every citizen has a right to receive qualified
education based on his/her interest and talent without considering social, race,

ethnical, religious and gender status. Access equalization and increasing of the
education‟s quality will lead Indonesian citizen‟s to have life skills to be more civilized

and modern in the frame of Pancasila.

In 2010, the president declared three missions of national development. They are to
realize a peaceful and save country, to realize democratic people and to realize

prosperous people. To realize those missions, National Education takes an important
role. Being qualified people, all citizens have ability to increase the quality of science,

knowledge and technology and their productivity.

We are entering the third millennium. All developed countries agreed that the

increasing of the education‟s quality in order to master science and technology is the
prerequisite to gain prosperity. That is why focus of the National Education is to

develop education sector in order to increase people‟s prosperity and keep

environment. The result, then, is able to be an asset to build knowledge-based
society.

Knowledge and science are a new basic for the prosperity of a nation. It depends on

the nation itself to realize knowledge and science as a basic of its economical and
industrial system. We know that role of the knowledge and science in a continuous

development will bring significant effect in increasing a nation‟s productivity and is

able to grow innovation to improve the nation‟s competitiveness on the global
competition.

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