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News Focus: ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION GETS POSITIVE RESPONSE
By Otniel Tamindael
Jakarta, Nov 5 (ANTARA) - The National Education Ministry`s plan to make entrepreneurship training part of formal school education in the country seems to have been responded to positively by certain regional education offices.
To produce school graduates possessing entrepreneurial spirit and skills to engage in business or industrial actvities in real life, the ministry plans to include entrepeneurship in school curriculums starting in the 2010 - 2011 academic year.
But in Kubu Raya district, West Kalimantan, the local education office has already taken the initiative to implement the government`s plan. Entrepreneurship has already been made part of the local content of school curriculums in the district to foster young students` entrepreneurial attitude, ethical values and culture so that they would be able to compete in creating job opportunities after graduating.
Kubu Raya district head Muda Mahendrawan said in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Thursday that entrepreneurship was now taught at schools as part of the local content of their curriculums.
"The inclusion of entrepreneurship in school curriculums in Kubu Raya is part of the district`s medium-term development program," Muda Mahendrawan said.
He said preparations to implement entrepreneurship education as part of school curriculums` local content had been made over the past four months.
"Some teachers have even been given special training on entrepreneurship," he said.
Mahendrawan added that the Kubu Raya district administration was also cooperating with noted national businessman Ciputra to develop entrepreneurship-based education in the district.
"Some more teachers will later be sent to the Ciputra University`s Entrepreneurship Center to take part in an entrepreneurship training and become trainers after returning to their respective schools," Mahendrawan said.
He said the teachers who had undergone entrepreneurship training at Ciputra University were expected to be able to train their colleagues at the schools where they taught.
With the inclusion of entrepreneurship in school curricula, Mahendrawan said, students were expected to be able to create business opportunities after graduating from their school.
He said, so far, students were always expected to graduate with good scores but without having knowledge about how to create business opportunities.
Therefore, he said the entrepreneurship-based education was expected to create graduate students with the spirit of entrepreneurship.
"They are expected to create new job opportunities," Mahendrawan said, adding that every school would divide its students into groups who then made proposals on the kind of business they wanted to develop, for instance, in the fishery, agriculture, and plantation sectors.
For the best proposal from the students of a particular group, Mahendrawan said the local government would provide them with working capital.
To produce the best education system, capable of producing individuals with high resilience in order to fulfill the aspirations and needs of the individual, society and the nation at large, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently called on national education authorities to reform the existing teaching methods and arouse the spirit of entrepreneurship among students.
Speaking at a function to open the National Summit 2009 here last Thursday, President Yudhoyono said students with the spirit of entrepreneurship would be able to support national development in the future.
The president said the main strategy in the improvement of the next five-year development program was the spirit of entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and people`s empowerment.
"But people`s empowerment through pro-people programs is not permanent, and the direct cash assistance is a form of subsidy," the head of state said.
According to the president, continual subsidy could not lead to sustainable development.
"We need to make further steps, namely the spirit of entrepreneurship that can be developed through the national education methods," the president said.
Therefore, the head of state called on the national education minister to reform the existing teaching methods and to make the students active in the teaching and learning process instead of the teachers.
He added that if the teaching methods enabled the students to have the spirit of entrepreneurship, they would later be able to create their own job opportunities, instead of applying for jobs.
The president said the unemployment and poverty rates in the future would be reduced significantly if today`s generation had the spirit of entrepreneurship and was able to create job opportunities.
Compared with the United States and Singapore, the president said, Indonesia only had a small number of entrepreneurs, even under one percent.
"Creating the spirit of entrepreneurship is not easy indeed but through various efforts - one of them is national education reform - it is possible," the president said, adding that the students with the spirit of entrepreneurship would later be creative and innovative, and able to make Indonesia even better.
President Yudhoyono also said the government had set itself the target of reducing the unemployment rate to five percent and the poverty rate to eight percent.
Meanwhile, National Education Minister Muhammad Nuh expressed hope recently that the entrepreneurship-based curriculum would be finished before the end of his first 100 days in office.
"The 100-day work program covers November, December and January. We hope the curriculum will be completed early in February at the latest so that we hope it will have been included in the curriculum for the 210-2012 new academic year," the minister added.
Muhammad Nuh said the new curriculum would not overhaul the previous curriculum but an entrepreneurship substance would be added.
He said that basically the entrepreneurship curriculum was aimed at instilling entrepreneurship characters to students, including flexibility to think, creativity, innovation and constant willingness to learn new things.
"The first thing that has to be formed with students is flexibility in thinking because this will generate their creativity. One will not be creative if he or she is rigid in thinking," the minister said.
He said the substance of the entrepreneurship-based curriculum would be included in the curriculum of each level of education.
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Jakarta, Nov 5 (ANTARA) - The National Education Ministry`s plan to make entrepreneurship training part of formal school education in the country seems to have been responded to positively by certain regional education offices.
To produce school graduates possessing entrepreneurial spirit and skills to engage in business or industrial actvities in real life, the ministry plans to include entrepeneurship in school curriculums starting in the 2010 - 2011 academic year.
But in Kubu Raya district, West Kalimantan, the local education office has already taken the initiative to implement the government`s plan. Entrepreneurship has already been made part of the local content of school curriculums in the district to foster young students` entrepreneurial attitude, ethical values and culture so that they would be able to compete in creating job opportunities after graduating.
Kubu Raya district head Muda Mahendrawan said in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Thursday that entrepreneurship was now taught at schools as part of the local content of their curriculums.
"The inclusion of entrepreneurship in school curriculums in Kubu Raya is part of the district`s medium-term development program," Muda Mahendrawan said.
He said preparations to implement entrepreneurship education as part of school curriculums` local content had been made over the past four months.
"Some teachers have even been given special training on entrepreneurship," he said.
Mahendrawan added that the Kubu Raya district administration was also cooperating with noted national businessman Ciputra to develop entrepreneurship-based education in the district.
"Some more teachers will later be sent to the Ciputra University`s Entrepreneurship Center to take part in an entrepreneurship training and become trainers after returning to their respective schools," Mahendrawan said.
He said the teachers who had undergone entrepreneurship training at Ciputra University were expected to be able to train their colleagues at the schools where they taught.
With the inclusion of entrepreneurship in school curricula, Mahendrawan said, students were expected to be able to create business opportunities after graduating from their school.
He said, so far, students were always expected to graduate with good scores but without having knowledge about how to create business opportunities.
Therefore, he said the entrepreneurship-based education was expected to create graduate students with the spirit of entrepreneurship.
"They are expected to create new job opportunities," Mahendrawan said, adding that every school would divide its students into groups who then made proposals on the kind of business they wanted to develop, for instance, in the fishery, agriculture, and plantation sectors.
For the best proposal from the students of a particular group, Mahendrawan said the local government would provide them with working capital.
To produce the best education system, capable of producing individuals with high resilience in order to fulfill the aspirations and needs of the individual, society and the nation at large, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently called on national education authorities to reform the existing teaching methods and arouse the spirit of entrepreneurship among students.
Speaking at a function to open the National Summit 2009 here last Thursday, President Yudhoyono said students with the spirit of entrepreneurship would be able to support national development in the future.
The president said the main strategy in the improvement of the next five-year development program was the spirit of entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and people`s empowerment.
"But people`s empowerment through pro-people programs is not permanent, and the direct cash assistance is a form of subsidy," the head of state said.
According to the president, continual subsidy could not lead to sustainable development.
"We need to make further steps, namely the spirit of entrepreneurship that can be developed through the national education methods," the president said.
Therefore, the head of state called on the national education minister to reform the existing teaching methods and to make the students active in the teaching and learning process instead of the teachers.
He added that if the teaching methods enabled the students to have the spirit of entrepreneurship, they would later be able to create their own job opportunities, instead of applying for jobs.
The president said the unemployment and poverty rates in the future would be reduced significantly if today`s generation had the spirit of entrepreneurship and was able to create job opportunities.
Compared with the United States and Singapore, the president said, Indonesia only had a small number of entrepreneurs, even under one percent.
"Creating the spirit of entrepreneurship is not easy indeed but through various efforts - one of them is national education reform - it is possible," the president said, adding that the students with the spirit of entrepreneurship would later be creative and innovative, and able to make Indonesia even better.
President Yudhoyono also said the government had set itself the target of reducing the unemployment rate to five percent and the poverty rate to eight percent.
Meanwhile, National Education Minister Muhammad Nuh expressed hope recently that the entrepreneurship-based curriculum would be finished before the end of his first 100 days in office.
"The 100-day work program covers November, December and January. We hope the curriculum will be completed early in February at the latest so that we hope it will have been included in the curriculum for the 210-2012 new academic year," the minister added.
Muhammad Nuh said the new curriculum would not overhaul the previous curriculum but an entrepreneurship substance would be added.
He said that basically the entrepreneurship curriculum was aimed at instilling entrepreneurship characters to students, including flexibility to think, creativity, innovation and constant willingness to learn new things.
"The first thing that has to be formed with students is flexibility in thinking because this will generate their creativity. One will not be creative if he or she is rigid in thinking," the minister said.
He said the substance of the entrepreneurship-based curriculum would be included in the curriculum of each level of education.
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