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From Kebumen
School and Community Training
School and community training in Kebumen was conducted from the 25 - 30 September, 2004 and included participants from 2 sub-districts, they were Ambal and Gombong. The school and community training was first held in Ambal with a total of 58 participants supposedly, however another 15 attended at their own expense, and from other clusters there were also participants who wanted to join the program.
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The participants in the school and community training presenting the results of their group discussions.
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The MBE Regional Office in Central Java suggested that they make a proposal to conduct self supported training so that the training process could be more effective and efficient. Likewise, in Gombong sub-district, other clusters also hope that they can conduct similar training.
The participants were very enthusiastic to join in the training activities that were provided by the 12 facilitators with the training model scenario that encouraged active participation from the participants employing discussions, modeling and presentations.
The facilitators provided basic materials for discussion about SBM, Community Participation, public accountability, PAKEM, School Budgets, and school visits. The final outcome of this training was that each school made a follow-up program of work that they could present to the District Education Office in Kebumen.
School Mapping Training
School Mapping training was conducted by the Kebumen Local Government (PEMDA) in cooperation with MBE from the 7 - 9 October 2004. The activity was run by the Kebumen Sosbud Bappeda (Local Development Agency). Participants came from 26 sub-districts and consisted of 106 supervisors of primary and secondary schools.
The School Mapping training was held at SMPKN 2 Kebumen and was led by Head of Sosbud Bappeda Kebumen and was attended by The Head of The Local Development Agency (BAPPEDA), BKD, Heads of Sub-districts (Camat), Heads of Section from the Education Office for Kindergarten and
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Ibu Purnowati (Facilitator) giving an explanation during training in school mapping.
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Primary Schools (TK/SD), Technical (Kasi Teknis) and Junior and Senior Secondary Schools (SLTP/SLTA), Head of Finance Department, Heads of Sub-district Education Offices and the Central Java MBE Regional Office.
The first day of the training was conducted jointly for all sub-districts (Kecamatan), and the basic format was discussions and reports of the main discussions: Mapping and school inventories, roles and responsibilities, data groups and type of data needed, results of discussions and analysis of the data format, collection of data and data validation.
The second and third days were divided into two phases in order to make them more effective because they were related to technical discussions on how to simulate data entry into the format.
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This training was led by the MBE Mapping Team and included the Local Education Office, The Local Development agency, Financial Department, Ministry of Religious Affairs who had just been trained in School Mapping for 3 days in Banyumas. They trained in Kebumen together with technical instructors from The Local Development Agency and the MBE consultants, and at the same time they introduced the MBE Program. The mapping program in Kebumen was aimed not only at mapping of issues of human resources (SDM) and infrastructure, but also to improve the quality of education. This education mapping includes not only Basic Education but also Senior Secondary education.
Ambal Community Enthusiastically Welcomes MBE
As stated in the Suara MBE, April 2004 Edition, Kebumen district was selected as one of MBE targeted areas together with Batu, Madiun, Blitar and Banyumas. As soon as they were selected, the local government (Pemda) in Kebumen drafted a follow-up plan in order to continue the momentum. After attending a workshop in Yogyakarta, they then visited Probo-linggo and Pacitan, East Java which are two MBE target districts.
On these visits they were joined by the Bappeda, Kasubdin TK/SD Dinas P & K, The Education Council Chairman (Ketua Dewan Pendidikan), Commission E of The Local parliament (DPRD), Camat, Head of Sub-district Educ-ation Office (Ka Cab Dinas P dan K), Supervisor (Pengawas), several SD/MI Principals and Teachers, several SMP/MTs Principals and Teachers from Gombong and Ambal, which are MBE target sub-districts.
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From the left: Head of the Ambal Sub-District Education Office Drs. Misbahchulmunir, Ambal Sub-District Head Drs. Frans Haidar, Teacher Supriyati Handayani S.Pd dan Principal of SDN 2 Ambalresmi Dunung R S.Pd, visiting SDN Baleharjo 2 Pacitan.
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Returning home from the visits, the Head of Ambal Sub-district (Camat) Drs Frans Haidar followed up on these activities by socializing MBE to the community. The young and energetic Camat used every opportunity to express how important Community Participation is in education. He not only talked, but was actively involved in helping with problems faced in schools in his area. The community enthusiastically responded to his invitation. Now, all schools in Ambal sub-district have a School Committee that is not just 'a name' but, a body that is really prepared to help with the school management.
Some time ago, when MBE conducted training for Principals and the community which should have been for only 10 targeted schools (6 SD, 1 MI, 2 SMP and 1 MTs), other schools in Ambal also attended at their own expense. This shows that Ambal local government and the community very enthusiastically welcome the MBE Program. Now it is evident that the school committees and the community are becoming actively involved in the Teaching and Learning Process (PBM) and extra curricular activities.
Mr. Phillip Tjakranata from USAID visited Al Khairiyah Primary School during the MBS and PAKEM facilitator training for the five new districts in Banyuwangi
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