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Future School Management and Leadership: The Case of Indonesia
Mohammad Ali
Abstract
This project aims at suggesting the direction of school leadership in relation to education management through conducting the case study of Indonesia.
For long time, Indonesia has focused on the centralistic education management, Thus, every school principal just had limited authority in policy making and in running the school management functions. It was constrained by these particular guides and some other government rules.
In 2000, as implementing the implementation of Law number 22/1999 on Regional Autonomy, Indonesia was able to advance the decentralization of the education management system that was no longer centralistic. Every autonomous region (in this case district or kota/mayoral) has greater authority to run its education management functions in its own region, especially those of the primary and secondary levels of education.
This has affected in the need to reform the education and the school management in regard to making it more effective and more efficient by applying the principles of accountability and transparency. In the future, the school management tends to apply a school-base management approach. Its application needs to be supported by the application of ICT.
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