One of the problems is high number of students who get dropped out from school. Mainly, the reason is because their parents can't afford school tuition or buy additional things such as books or uniforms. Even though there are many public school in Indonesia which free the tuition to their students, but they still ask money for books or uniforms fee. A lot of low economic citizens in Indonesia suffer this problem. And mainly students who get dropped out from school continue their life activities for helping their family economy, such as work with their parents or just hanging around with another dropped out students, which is not a good thing to do as a child or teenager. How pity.
Another problem is, there are many fights between students from different schools. Teenagers mainly cannot maintain their emotion, which makes students in Indonesia which are teenagers easy to fight with another student. The fights between students are so dangerous, which include weapons such as motorcycle gears, swords, or rocks. In fact, some students die or get injured because the fight. How scary.Social media, as one of biggest thing in students life, have to take part to resolve this problem. Giving free educational materials such as math modules, physics modules, etc. can help dropped out students to keep track of what they supposed to learn at school. Concerning about lack of internet access at rural area, there are many new internet bus which come to rural area in Indonesia, and also the internet cafe which really affordable and also reach rural area. Social media is also able to build a peaceful relationship between students from another schools. Geosmart, Geschool, and Fodboo are the example. These social media help connect students in Indonesia, provide educational materials, and another useful stuffs for students in Indonesia. Even though these sites still in development, it's proved that social media also useful for education.
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Fight with another school in Indonesia has become a tradition that hardly to avoid. Education minister has to take action for it because it is dangerous and destructing students' minds.
ReplyDeleteThe correlation between economy and education is unseperable. In my opinion, the government should let the economy grow by itself and the taxes for helping general people' economy such as BBM subsidution, should be relocated into the lower class students account.
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