3 Comments on “Least Educated”

1. Rasyad A. Parinduri Says:
   August 31st, 2006 at 12:17 pm

   Education in Indonesia is bad, all right. But certainly Indonesians are not “the least educated country in Asia”, as you seem to suggest. See here for example http://devdata.worldbank.org/edstats/cd2.asp

   Choose Indonesia, and select EAP and SAS as comparators. Then select some indicators like Adult literacy rate, Gross enrollment ratio, Progression to secondary school, School life expectancy.

   See also here http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indicators.cfm?x=7&y=2&z=1

   All three statistics you quoted above — they are all wrong.
   http://www.bps.go.id/sector/socwel/table2.shtml
   http://devdata.worldbank.org/edstats/ThematicDataOnEducation/CountryData/total_age15.xls
   http://devdata.worldbank.org/edstats/ThematicDataOnEducation/CountryData/total_age25.xls

2. Riccardo Says:
   August 31st, 2006 at 1:30 pm

   It’s not about the numbers anyway, it’s about the quality, or serious lack thereof, in the state schools in RI. Thank the New Order boys for that. Pre-1965, RI’s schools and curriculum, even though overly nationalist-oriented, was of high quality. Pak harto stopped all that and successfully created a mass system to dumb down the population — and it worked very, very well — and even though he’s out of power the same system is intact.

   We should be thankful that there are so many that DID NOT become victims of these schools ..

3. Rasyad A. Parinduri Says:
   August 31st, 2006 at 2:48 pm

   It’s not ONLY about numbers, I agree with you about that, Riccardo.

   But, numbers are also important. If one doesn’t get his/her facts right, he/she may be end up with the wrong conclusions.

   Here are a few posts on education I have in my blog, just in case you are interested http://del.icio.us/sarapanekonomi/education

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