Minggu, 16 September 2012

Gimcrack Education in my Village

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Term of “The price reflects the quality” is presumably right, not only on business, but also on education, as happening now in my village.
Since 2004, when our government allocated 20% of national budget for education, most of people turn their hopes on, due the budget reflects of free and have certain quality of school.
Unfortunately, since the implementation of the policy, not too much changes with our education, especially in the rural areas such as villages in Madura island, where most of the people as farmer with more than 60% on tobacco and the rest are corn, bean etc. The problems are; the lack of laboratory, library seems an expensive stuff and the most horrible thing is teacher quality. It becomes worsen due their truancy of teaching.
The Gimcrack Education, Their Stories.
Zen, 17, is a young man from Serabarat, small village in Bluto sub-district. He is an only son of single mother. His mother divorced 4 years ago when he was in the secondary school. The miserable of life makes him having big ambition to get an education as high as he can to improve their life. Sadly, he has to struggle alone to study because the teachers always in absence. “I go to school so early every day for nothing!” he said.
“I don’t know what to do when they are in absence. Want to go to laboratories, the school doesn’t have, they don’t even have a library, it is crappy! We did sharing, exchange an outstanding student from each class to another, but not now anymore, I am boring with that, I just need teachers to teach us!” said Susan, 16, a girl from Talang, Saronggi sub-district. She thought that education is really important to make people’s life better; due it will improve their knowledge, creativity and skill, three important things to get a better job for a better life.
Different story comes from Holis, 19, a young man from Dempo, Pasean sub-district where now he is an amateur mechanic of small machine shop in the village. Formerly, he was a student at a secondary school. He was never know that the school was free, because he was asked to pay for some books, cleaning cost, and other annually events while he had to struggle and suffer to get the money as porter of small stores in the sub-district market, freelance of tobacco harvest belong to his neighbor and construction laborer at 13 on his age, “I was sad. I have suffered to get money but paid for nothing”
Another interesting and disappointing story comes from Syaiful, 20 from Bira Timur. In 2009, he just graduated from senior high school in Madura. He cannot continue to university due he had a contract with the school to teach another school in a lack village. The problem is not only about his quality as fresh graduate from senior high school, but also his duty to handle and tackle Six Classes with his only a friend.
The stories reflecting how expensive the education in this country is, that can be enjoyed by certain people only, no wonder if Hasbul, 25, a university student give comment, “Just like second China stuffs, education here in the village is cheap and perishable. There is too much chinch inside!”
The Sun is Still Shining
In the messy of our education in the country from upstream to down one, there is still hope. IBBIeducare is the example. A community made by young community in the village has big ambition called “Become knowledge epicenter in Madura”. They have collected hundreds of book, tens programs was being held either for children, youth or adult, annually or accidentally programs.
One of the most appreciated program they are doing is Skill School, an entrepreneur program segmented for young people that expected to be sustainable program by giving them training and practice such as making Batik in the workshop nearby, Keris—Indonesian traditional weapon—etc toward sustainable development refers to local wisdom.
The basic reason they made this is to effort their skills and entrepreneurs of young people in the village in order to they can face challenging and competitive work place, even more, they can do their own business as a result of training and workshop they have ever had, “We cannot rely on the government or school, we have to struggle to effort our education, knowledge and skill!”, said Khoirul, 17, the chairman of IBBIeducare.
Regarding finance, so far, the program runs by self funding, especially from the stuffs they produce to sell out. “But we still find a lot of obstacles such as books and computer to monitor books out, because so far, we did it manually, so that, support from Government, corporate and of course NGO’s concerns on education development are really needed, for instance special allocation for special areas program, in this case, lack region such as here in Madura island”, add Khoirul.

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