Education lags behind other countries

Education lags behind other countries

YOGYAKARTA: Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Yusuf
Kalla said on Tuesday that the quality of education in Indonesia
lagged behind that of other countries.

The minister cited how easily students could graduate from
schools as a evidence of the deteriorating condition of the
education in the country.

"As a result, most of our graduates are qualified only for
manual labor, as they have failed miserably to present themselves
fairly in the labor market," he told reporters.

If the declining trend persisted, he feared that in the next
five years the quality of the country's education would fall to
the level of the 1960s.

He thus called on relevant parties to make stringent efforts
to improve the country's education. -- Antara