2013 Curriculum in Indonesia
Early education
Pre-School education in Indonesia is covered pre-school playgroup and kindergarten. From the age of 2, parents send their children to attend playgroup. From the age of 4, they attend kindergarten. Most kindergarten arrange the classes into two grades, grade A and grade B, which are informally called kelas nol kecil (little zero grade) and kelas nol besar (big zero grade) respectively. While this level of education is not compulsory for Indonesian citizens, it is aimed to prepare them for primary schooling. Of the 49,000 kindergartens in Indonesia, 99.35% are privately operated schools. The kindergarten years are usually divided into "Class A" and "Class B" students spending a year in each class.
Primary and secondary education
Indonesians are required to attend twelve years of school. They must go to school six (or five, depending on the institution) days a week from 6:30 a.m. until afternoon (usually 2 or 3 p.m.). They can choose between state-run, nonsectarian public schools supervised by the Department of National Education or private or semi-private religious (usually Islamic) schools supervised and financed by the Department of Religious Affairs. Students can also choose to participate in extracurricular activities provided by the school such as sports, arts, or religious studies. However, although 86.1 percent of the Indonesian population is registered as Muslim, according to the 2000 census only 15 percent of school-age individuals attended religious schools. Overall enrolment figures are slightly higher for girls than boys and much higher in Java than the rest of Indonesia.
Children aged 6–11 attend primary school, called Sekolah Dasar. Most elementary schools are government-operated public schools, accounting for nearly 93% of all elementary schools in Indonesia. Students spend six years in primary school, though some schools offer an accelerated learning program in which students who perform well can complete the level in five years.
Three years of junior secondary school, which follows elementary school. Some schools also offer an accelerated learning program in which students who perform well can complete the level in two years.
After completion of them, they may be attend three years of senior secondary school. Some senior secondary schools offer an accelerated learning program so students who perform well can complete their level within two years. Besides senior secondary school, students can choose among 47 programs of vocational and pre-professional senior secondary schools, divided in the following fields: technology and engineering, health, arts, craft and tourism, information and communication technologies, agro-business and agro-technology, business management. Each requires three years of study. There are academic and vocational junior high schools that lead to senior-level diplomas. There are also "domestic science" junior high schools for girls. At the senior high school level, three-year agricultural, veterinary, and forestry schools are open to students who have graduated from an academic junior high school. Special schools at the junior and senior levels teach hotel management, legal clerking, plastic arts, and music.
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