School committee: an implementation of school based management policy at school level in Indonesia

The collapse of the New Order regime in 1998 made many significant changes toIndonesia. In the education sector ideas about school based management have becomeincreasingly popular and public regarded as best solution to the school system. Four years later, Indonesian‟s ministry of national education...

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Main Authors: Sumintono, Bambang, Mislan, Nora, Said, Hamdan
Format: Article
Published: LPPM IKIP Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia 2012
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/27082/
http://www.ikippgrikaltim.ac.id
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Summary:The collapse of the New Order regime in 1998 made many significant changes toIndonesia. In the education sector ideas about school based management have becomeincreasingly popular and public regarded as best solution to the school system. Four years later, Indonesian‟s ministry of national education released a decree which regulate school based management with the introduction of school committee that to be established at school level. Using qualitative inquiry, the researchers approached the study in two ways: document analysis of the decree regard to school committee issue; and collected data from schools and district level stakeholders in Mataram through questionnaire, interview, observation and document analysis to reveal their perception about school committee. It is found that the regulation apply „one size fits all‟ model regard to different type of education institutions in the school system; the schools follow the policy and establishing school committee, but still continuing earlier practices like previous body.