Policy & Planning

  1. Objective
    Literacy (functional literacy): to expand the former programme, which only focused on the eradication of illiteracy, into a three-level programme for literacy development: basic skills, guided learning, and self-learning.

  2. Strategies
    Functional literacy aims to meet a wide range of learning needs for a diversity of learners living in all parts of Indonesia. The new approach aims to develop the capacity f of local staff and organizer for designing and implementing the programme.

    Empowering: Out-of-school programmes adapt and make use of technological development and are tailored to suit community social condition. Out-of-school educational institutions are managed by, for and from the community themselves.

    Positioning: The out-of-school programme should lead to the creation of job opportunities. Meanwhile, Out-of-School Programme must be diversified and substantively related to income-generating.

    Quality: Out-of-school education should be oriented to the market sector and meaningful for daily life.

    Decentralization: Referring to Article No. 22 of the constitution 1999 concerning autonomy, local government and community should operate closely in implementing out of school programmes.

Source: ACCU