Students during an art class at Paud Purwosekar Village, Tajinan District, Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia. Credit: Fauzan Ijazah/World Bank

Partner since:

Total grant support: US$25,217,167

Grant eligibility:

  • Multiplier
  • System capacity

Partnership compact

Priority: Improve learning quality through foundational skills acquisition and character development for all Indonesian primary and secondary students.

Other key documents

Coordinating agency: PSPK, UNICEF, Yayasan Plan International Indonesia

GPE Team lead: Javier Luque

Transforming education in Indonesia

Indonesia has made improvements in enrollment and gender parity, but low learning and learning inequality are major challenges. The government is working with GPE and other partners to improve learning quality through foundational skills acquisition and character development for all students.

Indonesia’s Partnership Compact supports the country’s Merdeka Belajar (Emancipated Learning) initiative—a vehicle for transformational change in the education system through improvements in evaluation and quality assurance, teaching and learning, governance and leadership, and infrastructure and financing—and aligns partners and resources behind the prioritized reform area.

Indonesia’s priority reform focuses on four areas of change.

  1. Teaching practices will improve through more effective use of self-study, direct training and collaborative learning among teachers.
  2. Learning environments will be safe, inclusive, healthy, climate resilient, encouraging and meaningful for students.
  3. Students with special needs and from disadvantaged groups will be better supported through improved policies and practices, like more effective use of data to identify and address students’ needs.
  4. Strengthened governance and coordination of national and local education ecosystems will help ensure quality education service delivery.

Result story

Translating education commitments into action: Examples from Asia

Six months after the Transforming Education Summit in 2022, countries from Asia and the Pacific gathered to share and learn from good practices and innovations they have initiated to transform their education systems and address the learning crisis. Here are key takeaways.

Grants

(data as of November 05, 2024)

 
  • Type: Multiplier

    Years: 2024 - 2028

    Allocation: US$24,273,202

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: Save the Children Australia

  • Type: System capacity

    Years: 2022 - 2025

    Allocation: US$700,000

    Utilization: US$238,018

    Grant agent: UNICEF

Civil society engagement

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Network for Education Watch (NEW) Indonesia for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).

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