CURRICULA IN INDONESIA

CURRICULA IN INDONESIA
Warta Madrasah - Indonesia has applied many curricula in education. The modernity is to make Indonesian educational quality to be better than before. According to Nasution’s statement, the modernity of curricula follows two procedures.

The first is Administrative Approach. In this procedure, a change of modernity is planned from the high function to relegate in institutions of low function until teachers. So, in this aspect, the top-down modernity that depends on initiative administrators.

The second is Grass Root Approach. Grass Root Approach is the modernity made from the root (low function) to high function. It means that this modernity comes from the teacher or school individually and has a hope to increase to other schools.

So many curricula in Indonesia, but the writer only explain them to be several points.

Before 2004 Curriculum
The curricula had been applied in Indonesian education before 2004 were 6 times. The first was Rencana Pelajaran 1947. At that time, used the leer plan (Dutch, red). This curriculum was applied by schools in 1950. Secondly, the curriculum was Rencana Pelajaran Terurai 1952.

This curriculum was more detail than Rencana Pelajaran 1947. Next period was 1968 curriculum. The purpose of this curriculum is creating of the real people who support pancasila (pancasilais). This curriculum was emphasizing in organizational approach. The fourth was 1975 curriculum. Its purpose to make an education to be effective and efficient. It changed by 1984 curriculum. 1984 curriculum process is skill approach. It was called by Kurikulum 1975 yang Disempurnakan. Pupils were subjects. This was known By Cara Belajar Siswa Aktif (CBSA) or Pupils Active Learning (SAL). Sixthly, Indonesia used 1994 curriculum and 1999 curriculum’s supplement. In this period, education in Indonesia modified all of curricula which used before.

The explanation above is the short explanation about curricula which used in Indonesia before 2004 or Competence Based Curriculum (KBK).

Competence Based Curriculum (KBK)
Competence Based Curriculum is a set of plan and arrangement of competence and achievement which are got by pupils. In materials, this curriculum is not far from the 1994 curriculum. The difference is about the pupils’ way in teaching learning process. In this curriculum, pupils must be active and improve their skill to apply science and technology without less of solidarity and cooperating.

Thus, teachers are only as facilitators, but education is educating in all of sides. In the class, pupils were not only objects but also subjects of teaching learning process. Since the middle of 2001, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (National Education Department) socialized this curriculum, but it was used in beginning of 2004 although there were schools had applied this curriculum before it was defined. After several years, the result of this curriculum was not significant. It caused many factors. The first is the concept of Competence Based Curriculum (KBK) which was not understood by teachers in the class yet. All the while, the draft of competence based curriculum changed. This is the second factor. The last factor is there was no guidance of standard teaching strategies for teacher.

According to Departemen Pendidikan Nasional (National Education Department), there are several characteristics of Competence Based Curriculum. They are:

     a.      Emphasizing on achieving of pupils’ competence individually and classically
     b.      Orienting in teaming outcomes and religion
     c.       Transferring in teaching learning process using variational approaches and methods
     d.     Resources were not only from teachers but also all of educative documents
    e.    Assessment in emphasizing of teaching learning process and learning outcomes to achieve pupils’ competence.

School Based Curriculum (KTSP)
Curriculum is never static. The need to adjust to the development of education of other countries and the discoveries of new theories and knowledge help to explain this condition. The School Based Curriculum (KTSP) is the revised version of the previous curricula including 1994 and 2004 curriculum.

Beginning of 2006, test-drive of Competence Based Curriculum (KBK) had been stoned. School Based Curriculum was combined. The materials of School Based Curriculum were still choking up. There was no difference in contents and objectives of competence between Competence Based Curriculum (KBK) and School Based Curriculum (KTSP) until evaluation phase.

The School Based Curriculum (KTSP) is the operational curriculum which is designed and done in each educational institutions or educational groups. The School Based Curriculum (KTSP) is a set of plan and arrangement about objectives, contents, materials, and methods which is used as a guide for teaching learning process to achieve the objectives of education.
The purpose of middle level is to improve the intelligence, knowledge, behavior, skills to stand alone, and follow the next education. The contents of this curriculum are learning materials, curricular materials, and self-development activity.


Curriculum must be replaying the national education’s objectives of the appropriateness with the conditions and regional potencies, education and the pupils themselves. That curriculum is designed to give the possibility of the accommodation of education programs with the regional need and potency. Thus, every school may have different curriculum depending on the need and the condition of the school itself. However, the government has given a national standard of the curriculum, which serves as a model for the schools.

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