Deputy Interior Minister Emphasises Three Strategic Foundations for Quality Education
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Deputy Interior Minister (Wamendagri) Akhmad Wiyagus has emphasised the need for a change in mindset, mentality, and mission orientation as the primary foundations for successfully implementing national education policies.
He stated that these three aspects are absolute requirements to ensure that government priority programmes do not stop at mere administrative formalities but deliver real impact.
“Without them, all policies would merely end as programmes and formalities marked only by quantitative achievements,” said Wiyagus in his statement in Jakarta on Monday.
In the address, he explained that over the past 18 months, the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) has developed strategic foundations titled “quality education for all” through five main policies.
These policies include the revitalisation and digitalisation of more than 288,000 educational units, improving qualifications and welfare for 150,000 scholarship-recipient teachers by 2026, strengthening character through the Seven Habits of Great Indonesian Children programme and ASRI school environments (Safe, Healthy, Clean, Beautiful), measuring quality via Academic Ability Tests and the literacy-numeracy movement, and expanding inclusive services for children with special needs.
Furthermore, he asserted that the implementation of the Deep Learning approach as a priority programme can only be realised if the entire education ecosystem moves synergistically.
This ecosystem encompasses schools, families, communities, and media, which are expected to collaborate with a shared spirit.
He emphasised that education is fundamentally a process of humanising humans, carried out with sincerity and full of compassion.
In the concluding part of the address, Wiyagus affirmed that Kemendikdasmen cannot work alone and requires support from various parties, from communities, the business world, domestic and international partners, to local governments.
In this context, the role of the Ministry of Home Affairs is crucial in synergising relations between the central and local governments.
“Let us strengthen our cooperation to realise quality education for all, towards a smart, advanced, and dignified Indonesia,” he concluded.