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Teacher reform in Indonesia : the role of politics and evidence-based policymaking - a preview

This document previews a forthcoming World Bank book to be published in early 2013, entitled Teacher Reform in Indonesia: the role of politics and evidence based policymaking. The book tells the story of Indonesia's efforts to reform and enhance the quality of one of the largest and most complex education systems in the world. This book will examine the following questions: 1) what was the pre-reform status of Indonesia's education system and its teachers, the triggers for the reform, the main components of the reform (as embodied in the 2005 teacher and lecturer law and subsequent regulations designed to implement it), and the political economy context in which the law originated and has been implemented? 2) What were the pre- and post-reform structures, strategies, and processes of the Indonesian teacher management and development system? 3) What was the impact of these efforts both on teacher status, motivation, subject knowledge, and pedagogical skills and on student outcomes? And 4) what have been the implications of the reform for the efficiency of Indonesia's education system both financial and in terms of teacher distribution and student-teacher ratios and what is still needed to ensure that the current reforms are, in fact, sustainable?