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Asslamualaikum wr. wb.
The
honorable ones the principle of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung, all teachers and
administration staffs of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung and all my friends from
tenth until twelfth grade.
Before I
begin to give a speech, I would like to invite you all to thank Allah
the Almighty, Who has given us Mercy and Blessing, so we can meet
together in this blessing place. And also let’s deliver sholawat and salam to our prophet Muhammad SAW, Who has brought us from the darkness to the brightness, so we are always in the right path.
Ladies and gentlemen
It be a
great honor for me, to stand right here in front of you all to give a
speech about education under the title "Education in Indonesia" in this
National Education Day or HARDIKNAS.
Indonesian
is a great country. It has so many natural resources that can be used.
It has so many beautiful palaces that can mesmerize people. It is so
beautiful to live here peacefully with different cultures, languages,
and religions. However, why are there still many people who live under
poverty in this country? The only answer to this question is because our
human resources are still low in the term of education.
If you have
ever heard about the news about our international education rank, you
would be surprised. As quoted form Education for All (EFA) Global
Monitoring Report 2011 which is published by UNESCO and launched in New
York on Sunday, 1/3/2011, our international education rank is at 69th
place from 129 surveyed countries all over the world. This rank is lower
than in 2010.
It opens a
question that runs in my head, what happen with our education? Indonesia
is a great country with many talented young generations. It was
undoubted again that there are so many Indonesian students who win the
international education Olympiads such as mathematics, chemical, physics
and other. But why our international education rank is still low. So
what happen with with our education?
Ladies and gentlemen
There must
be a reason why our human resources and our global rank in education are
still low. One of the reasons is that our education is expensive. For
middle up to high class people the cost of our education is nothing. But
for those who live in lower economic class, the cost of our education
is beyond their reach. Many of them even abandon their duty to go to
school just because they have to work to fulfill their needs.
Our
government has made a policy recently to overcome the problem in our
education. The policy is increasing national educational budget up to
20% from APBN. This budget later on is used to make education is
reachable for low economic level society; to improve teachers’ quality
with a program which well known as “sertifikasi”; and to provide school facilities such as library, classroom, laboratory, and sport hall.
Ladies and gentlemen
We hope the
policy that the government made will make our educational quality
better. Of course as a student, we don’t just sit down and relax without
doing something. Good or bad the quality of education of our country
also depend us. If we want to change our bad educational paradigm, let’s
begin with improving our achievement with studying hard for the sake of
our education.
I hope this speech that I deliver today will be useful for you all. Thank you so much for your attention. The last I say:
Wasalamualaikum Wr. Wb.