The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
Indonesia faces serious challenges in the number, cost, quality, and distribution of teachers. This paper examines the role of political economy factors in producing these challenges and shaping efforts to resolve them. It argues that the challenge...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/974411481637452183/The-political-economy-of-teacher-management-in-decentralized-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25812 |
| Summary: | Indonesia faces serious challenges in
the number, cost, quality, and distribution of teachers.
This paper examines the role of political economy factors in
producing these challenges and shaping efforts to resolve
them. It argues that the challenges have their origins in
the way in which political and bureaucratic elites have for
decades used the school system to accumulate resources,
distribute patronage, mobilize political support, and
exercise political control. This orientation has meant that
teacher numbers, quality, and distribution have been managed
to maximize flows of rents and votes from schools to the
elite, lubricate patronage and political networks, and
ensure that elites maintain political control rather than
maximize educational performance and equity. The fall of the
New Order, the authoritarian and centralized regime that
ruled Indonesia from 1965 to 1998, led to efforts to change
this situation, but these have had little impact so far. The
paper concludes by assessing what can be done by proponents
of teacher management reform in this context to promote
better outcomes. |
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