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Context
Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest education system. Since 2020, increased government education spending has resulted in more children enrolling in school and staying longer. Teacher numbers have also increased. But many lack the required skills and knowledge to be effective educators. As a result, learning outcomes are poor. More than 50% of students are not on track to gain the basic skills required to get a job.
Our Work
STiR Education started operating in Indonesia in 2022. We partnered with local NGO Bakti Barito Foundation to run our programme. Our first projects were in two districts of East Java. We help the district leadership to revitalise their existing structure of teacher meetings.
We have now agreed a national memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MoECRT). Lasting for three years, this agreement gives us a national profile and creates greater leverage for our scale efforts.
As part of our partnership, we agreed to expand operations into a second province (East Nusa Tenggara). We are now bringing new districts on board in both provinces to increase our scale and impact.
“Such grassroots movement efforts are truly necessary to be conducted so that a transformation in education that empowers society as a whole may flourish sustainably to make behaviour changes.”
– Anang Kurniawan, head of Kediri Education Office, Indonesia
