The Political Economy of Teacher Management in Decentralized Indonesia

Rosser, Andrew ; Fahmi, Mohamad

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: political economy;    education;    teacher management;    teachers;    patronage;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7913
RP-ID  :  WPS7913

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Indonesia faces serious challenges inthe number, cost, quality, and distribution of teachers.This paper examines the role of political economy factors inproducing these challenges and shaping efforts to resolvethem. It argues that the challenges have their origins inthe way in which political and bureaucratic elites have fordecades used the school system to accumulate resources,distribute patronage, mobilize political support, andexercise political control. This orientation has meant thatteacher numbers, quality, and distribution have been managedto maximize flows of rents and votes from schools to theelite, lubricate patronage and political networks, andensure that elites maintain political control rather thanmaximize educational performance and equity. The fall of theNew Order, the authoritarian and centralized regime thatruled Indonesia from 1965 to 1998, led to efforts to changethis situation, but these have had little impact so far. Thepaper concludes by assessing what can be done by proponentsof teacher management reform in this context to promotebetter outcomes.