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Indonesia-Australia MBE
Our Australian colleagues have already started to implement an MBE program in three districts in East Java: Jember, Jombang and Gresik. This program assisted by AusAID and our USAID assisted program are working together to develop training materials, programs and teaching materials.
This will be much more efficient than each program working on its own. Their consultants took part in a workshop with our consultants and a number of teachers from 18 - 20 June in Probolinggo to develop learning materials and from 20 - 22 July they joined with us and Unesco and Unicef to revise the SBM training package.
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Bpk. Sulur a consultant from the AusAID supported program working with Bpk. Umar Samadhy, the Central Jave MBE coordinator, to revise SBM training modules
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MBE enters Blitar district
After the fourth edition of Suara MBE was published in April 2004, Blitar district was selected to become the tenth member of the MBE program. During their visit to Blitar the MBE team was very impressed with the local government's and other stakeholders' concern for education.
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SD Babadan 1 in Wlingi, Blitar is already implementing a number of innovations.
The Head of Dinas Pendidikan, Bpk. Bambang Suntoro, looking at a display of children's work in class 3b.
The work displayed is the children's own work and is of a good standard.
The Head of the School Committee (Bapak Muhainim) and School Principal (Ibu Amir Sujati) standing in front of a multi-purpose hall which is being built by the school committee.
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MBE Consultant in Cambodia Training
From 21 - 30 June Prima Setiawan one of our MBE consultants went to Phnom Penh to take part in PETS (Public Expenditure Tracking Survey) training which was organised by the World Bank Institute, Washington and Unesco-IIEP, Paris.
This training showed the participants how to analyse and research the efficiency, accountability and leakage of funds in the education sector.
The aim was for participants to understand PETS, plan their own program and learn how to find out the sources, size and use of educational resources, including the possibility of leakages.
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The most famous symbol of Cambodia, Ankgor Wat temple (up)
Some of the participants from the five nations who took part in the PETS training including Prima Setiawan (second from right).
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The instructors/facilitators were people with international experience who had already carried out surveys of and written books about education finance in various countries.
Several countries sent representatives, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Kenya and Indonesia.
The participants were given the opportunity share their international experience with the other countries about how to increase efficiency and reduce wastage.
As part of this Prima Setiawan, Education Finance Specialist in the MBE project, who was invited as the Indonesian representative, was given the opportunity to explain the work of the MBE project in the areas of transparent planning and allocation of funds, more efficient use of funds and more equitable allocation of funds via formula funding in some of our partner local governments (Pacitan, Pati, Batu and Madiun).
This has been done in order to raise the transparency and efficiency of financial management and to improve equity a part of an effort to reduce the possibility of wastage of public funds.
During the presentation on formula funding there were a lot of questions and responses from both the participants and the facilitators.
This indicated their interest in the MBE approaches, and several of the countries stated their interest in making visits to observe directly the implementation of the funding.
This was very gratifying. But we still need to continue to improve the quality of education sector financial management in Indonesia.
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