Leading Schools Digitally : Evaluation of the Electronic School Planning and Budgeting System (e-RKAS) in Indonesia
The education system under the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) in Indonesia is highly decentralized. Most school costs under MoEC are covered by fiscal transfers from the centre to provincial and district levels, some of which are earmarke...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/142861606207131324/Leading-Schools-Digitally-Evaluation-of-the-Electronic-School-Planning-and-Budgeting-System-e-RKAS-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34883 |
| Summary: | The education system under the Ministry
of Education and Culture (MoEC) in Indonesia is highly
decentralized. Most school costs under MoEC are covered by
fiscal transfers from the centre to provincial and district
levels, some of which are earmarked for education use. One
such type of transfer is school operational grants, known as
Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS) or school operational
assistance. BOS funds are managed directly by schools, which
have been delegated the autonomy to receive, plan and
budget, spend, administer, and report their use. Experience
has shown that many schools lack the capacity to use BOS
funds effectively and efficiently to deliver better learning
outcomes for students, while there have been no planning
systems to manage use of BOS funds towards achieving the
National Education Standards (NES) for individual schools.
Under the BOS program, each school is required to conduct a
School Self‐Evaluation (SSE) against the NES and use the
results to develop its spending plans accordingly. Every
school has also been advised to develop a planning and
budgeting system (Rencana Kegiatan dan Anggaran Sekolah or
RKAS) to allocate and manage BOS funds. To support
implementation of the RKAS, an application called the
Rencana Kegiatan dan Anggaran Sekolah Berbasis Elektronik
(e‐RKAS or electronic school plan) has been developed. To
assess the preliminary effects of introducing different
e‐RKAS applications on the role and behaviour of
stakeholders, as well as challenges experienced during
implementation, the World Bank conducted an evaluation of
the e‐RKAS program. This report focuses on the evaluation
and impact of e‐RKAS. |
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