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        "id": 1086032,
        "msgid": "mastery-of-english-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-12-31 00:00:00",
        "title": "Mastery of English",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Mastery of English \"English has been a mandatory school subject for more than half a century. However, all of us are not yet satisfied with the students' mastery of the language\", wrote The Jakarta Post on Sept. 25, 1999. This irony reveals the benchmark of a drastic decline in Indonesian education. When students fail to master English, it is the teachers who are to blame. However, there is a tendency to blame other people.",
        "content": "<p>Mastery of English<\/p>\n<p>\"English has been a mandatory school subject for more than <br>\nhalf a century. However, all of us are not yet satisfied with the <br>\nstudents' mastery of the language\", wrote The Jakarta Post on <br>\nSept. 25, 1999. This irony reveals the benchmark of a drastic <br>\ndecline in Indonesian education.<\/p>\n<p>When students fail to master English, it is the teachers who <br>\nare to blame. However, there is a tendency to blame other people. <br>\nSetbacks to education are not only related to teachers, but are <br>\nalso attributable to unprofessional curriculum designers and a <br>\nlow standard of school management.<\/p>\n<p>Let us improve the unsatisfactory quality of our education. <br>\nOne way to do this is through mastery of the English language, <br>\nwhich is particularly true in this era of globalization.<\/p>\n<p>ANSELMUS SUDIRMAN<\/p>\n<p>Yogyakarta<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/mastery-of-english-1447893297",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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