Education development in Indonesia 2013/2014

Indonesia is a highly pluralistic country and diverse nation, reflected by its national credo: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika or Unity in Diversity. With various ethnics and several hundreds different local dialects, the
country might only be compared with Europe in terms of diversity. The diversity becomes more visible by considering the disparity in economic, social, technological infrastructure and natural resources. At the outset of 2000s Indonesia was trying to survive from the
economic crisis which had never been over yet since 1997, while trying to keep up with the growing demands of globalization by improving its competing ability. Currently, Indonesia faces various and enormous
challenges, on one hand generated as the impact of the economic crisis at almost every social-economical-cultural aspect, on the other hand, the occurring impact has been agreed upon to be determined through
out human resources development efforts. Globalization is asserting the strong accent on improving human resources as the most distinctive factor to improve the nation competing ability. So far, national development has been granted mainly on economy as the most decisive factor, as it has consequence to the quality improvement of human resources as the prime movers. The emphasis
on improving human resources appears in all sectors and sub-sectors of national development plans and programs to confirm that the government is aware of the role of quality human resources.