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Decentralized Basic Education 1 (DBE1) is implemented to improve quality of basic education through improvement of education management and governance at school, sub-district, and district level. At school level, DBE1 carries out capacity building training for schools principals as well as committee members. DBE1 also assists schools to develop their work plan which is based on information such as the school’s latest profile, real condition and situation, and related stakeholders’ hopes and aspirations. Schools will then use this document to determine their activities and allocate budget accordingly.

At district level, DBE1 activities are focused to improve district stakeholders’ capacity to produce better informed education sector plans and policies. This effort is implemented through programs such as School Unit Cost Analysis (SUCA,) District Education Finance Analysis (DEFA,) and assisting districts to develop their strategic plan for the education sector. While taking part in these programs, stakeholders are encouraged to use valid and up-to-date data and information as basis of their analysis. Also, the process is more transparent and participative since other stakeholders and community members are involved in analysis’ development and finalization stages as well.

DBE1 hopes that by providing support to stakeholders at school and district education sector, stakeholders at these levels could work together to plan and formulate the education sector’s policy. However, results of DBE1 monitoring and evaluation in seven provinces show that there is still the need to synchronize planning and formulation at these levels.

(Left to Right) Bapak Sujadi (District Parliament,) Bapak Sudaryono (Secretary of District), Bapak Sri Muljanto (Head of Boyolali District,) Mark Heyward (DBE1) and Bapak Mulyono Santoso (Head of Education Office) took part in public consultation session recently

The same was also concluded by government of Boyolali district, Central Java. Having been a part of DBE1 programs since 2005, representatives of Boyolali District and its Education Office realize the importance of integrated planning between the district and schools. At the beginning of 2009, Boyolali Education Office together with DBE1 conducted a research on education planning mechanism. The results clearly indicated that currently in Boyolali there was no mechanism that required schools, Education Office Technical Implementation Unit, and District Education Office to plan and implement education policies together. As part of the current planning procedure, technical data was collected from schools by the Unit and processed by Planning Division of the Education Office. As a result, it was difficult for schools to have programs listed in their School Development Plan included in Education Office work plan and subsequent budget allocation. Boyolali Education Office realizes that many schools that have been taking part in DBE1 programs actually have good School Development Plan or Annual Work Plan but are not able to implement these programs due to the afore-mentioned circumstance.

Based on these results, Education Office recognizes the need for district education planning system that will accommodate implementation of school programs and accordingly decided to develop an Education Office decree. On May 28, such Decree was produced by Education Office. On July 27, during a public consultation session, the document was presented to other stakeholders for their input and suggestions. A total of 37 people participated in this event, representing District Parliament, District Development Planning Board, Education Council, Office of Religious Affairs, Indonesia Teachers Association, Non Governmental Organizations, Association of School Principals, as well as Technical Implementation Unit and other units/sub-divisions of the Education Office. Based on the inputs, the Decree will be revised and is planned to be implemented during 2010-2011 budget year. In addition, as part of the effort to support the Decree implementation, from 25 to 27 August, Heads of Technical Implementation Unit and supervisors from Boyolali District were trained on the school planning process.

“This is a good breakthrough so that education planning can be included in planning of the distrct,” was said by Bapak Sri Muljanto, Governor of Boyolali when the Decree was issued recently. Other positive responses were expressed by other stakeholders. Representative of Boyolali District Parliament mentioned that because schools are where education activities take place, education sector policy must start from schools. Forabi, an NGO in Boyolali, agreed with the issuance of this Decree because it encourages participation of different stakeholders in planning education-sector policies.

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