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Orientation Workshop in Probolinggo

 An orientation workshop for the new MBE districts was held in Probolinggo from 15-18 June. Participants from the five new districts Banyumas and Kebumen in Central Java and Kota Batu, Kota Madiun and Blitar in East Java gathered at the Grand Bromo Hotel.

Participants from the five new districts

Those present included representatives of Bappeda (the local development agency), Dinas Pendidikan (Education Office), MORA (Ministry of Religious Affairs), DPRD (local parliament), Dewan Pendidikan (Education Council), sub-district branch representatives of Dinas Pendidikan, school principals and school committee members. They discussed the components of the MBE program, including School Mapping and Planning, School Financing and the School Based Management (SBM), Community Participation (CP) and PAKEM (Active Creative Joyful and Effective Learning) programs.

Several resource persons from the five original program districts were present to explain about these activities. The workshop was held intentionally in Probolinggo so that the participants could visit schools which are already functioning well in respect of SBM, Community Participation and PAKEM. Many of the participants also took the opportunity to view Mount Bromo, which was still emitting a lot of dust and smoke, having erupted the previous week.

The School Committee and Principal

 Our consultants have carried out studies of the roles of the school principal and school committees, focusing especially on schools which are successfully implementing SBM in the MBE and CLCC program areas. The aim was to discover the secrets of success in these schools so that they can be disseminated to other schools. A summary of the conclusions of these studies can be found on pages 9 and 10.

Working together with SHIP

SHIP (School Health Improvement Program) is working in four districts in Central Java to improve the health of school children. We have agreed to work with them in Kebumen district to develop the SBM, CP and PAKEM programs in the SHIP schools in Sadang sub-district. The aim of these activities is one of whole school improvement-including education and health-and involving local communities and schools working together in planning and implementing school programs.

The people of Sadang sub-district
Amanda Morgan

The people of Sadang sub-district, Kebumen awaiting SBM in their schools (left). Amanda Morgan, the program manager of SHIP in Yogyakarta and Central Java (right).


The Sun

The Environment

Writing done by the Class 1 Children

Ibu Purwi Nuryantini, better known as Ibu Wiwik, is a teacher who often works as a trainer for the MBE and other programs. She is a class 1 teacher at SD Maronwetan 1, Probolinggo and always wants to learn knew things. She has already started to teach in a thematic and integrated way.

She develops a variety of activities related to a theme she has chosen. The themes you can see in the displays here are The Sun and The Environment. Through these themes the children learn several subjects including science and Bahasa Indonesia. This style of learning in more interesting and more effective.

Look at the writing done by the class 1 children from Maron village. The children can already write a page using their own words and they can write neatly using joined up writing. The children can even use punctuation marks!

What does MBE do?

The MBE program works at district (kabupaten and kota) level to improve education management and governance, and to develop models of good practice in 20 schools (primary and junior secondary, conventional and religious) in each district including School Based Management (SBM), Community Participation and Active, Creative, Joyful and Effective Learning (known as PAKEM in Indonesian).

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