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Indonesia, like many developing nations in Asia, is currently riding a decentralization wave. Over the past decade, the government has pushed for decentralization in all sectors of government, from health to agriculture. In the 1980s, the Ministry of National Education (MONE)1 began exploring the possibility of decentralizing authority over the schools. In the years that followed, a multitude of programs and policies tied to that goal were enacted. Although the government sometimes had trouble following through on its promise to devolve authority to autonomous regions, its support for decentralization projects did not wane. The culmination of its efforts to reconfigure authority frameworks was the passage of two laws in 1999 that granted sweeping powers to Indonesia’s districts and municipalities, beginning in 2001 (Ferrazzi, 1998; Malo, 1995; Usman, 2001). This legislation indicated that the education system, like all sectors of government, would be managed by local authorities and educators, and the MONE’s primary responsibility would shift from direction to coordination.
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Bjork, C. (2006). TRANSFERRING AUTHORITY TO LOCAL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES IN INDONESIA: AMBITIOUS PLANS, MIXED RESULTS. In: BJORK, C. (eds) Educational Decentralization. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4358-1_9
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