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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Main Authors:	Rosser, Andrew, Fahmi, Mohamad
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	political economy education teacher management teachers patronage political support New Order education reform
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/974411481637452183/The-political-economy-of-teacher-management-in-decentralized-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25812

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spelling	okr-10986-258122021-06-08T14:42:46Z The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia Rosser, Andrew Fahmi, Mohamad political economy education teacher management teachers patronage political support New Order education reform 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. 2017-01-05T19:50:06Z 2017-01-05T19:50:06Z 2016-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/974411481637452183/The-political-economy-of-teacher-management-in-decentralized-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25812 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7913 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Rosser, Andrew Fahmi, Mohamad
author_facet	Rosser, Andrew Fahmi, Mohamad
author_sort	Rosser, Andrew
title	The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
title_short	The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
title_full	The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
title_fullStr	The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed	The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia
title_sort	political economy of teacher management in decentralized indonesia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/974411481637452183/The-political-economy-of-teacher-management-in-decentralized-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25812
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The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia

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