Condition of Teachers

The Current Condition (quality) of Indonesia Teachers

Teachers are the key actors in education. A good teacher is a person who has ability or competency that can be given to the students. Teacher is a person who has a position that is very important for the development of all potential learners, and to be the most decisive in the design and preparation of the process of education and learning in the classroom. In addition, teachers are also the most decisive in the classroom setting and control students, assess the results achieved education and student learning.

In terms of quantity, the number of teachers in Indonesia is quite adequate. But, in general, the distribution and quality are still low. It can be proved that many teachers are not graduates, but they teach in high schools and vocational schools, as well as the number of teachers who do not teach based on their disciplines. This situation is quite alarming with a percentage of more than 50% in Indonesia.

Most teachers in Indonesia are even declared unfit to teach. Feasibility of teaching is related to the level of teacher education itself. According to data from Research and Education Ministry in 2010, it is said that there were approximately 1.2 million elementary school teachers that only 13.8% were educated diploma education (DII). 38.8% of 680,000 teachers of junior high school were only graduated from new educational DIII. 57.8% of 337.503 new teachers at senior high school were S1. At the higher education level of 181.544 lecturers, there were only 18.86% who got S2 and only 3.48% got S3.

Sanusi (2007: 11) said that teachers are not reliable in various aspects of the performance standard, because he does not have: the contents of expertise in the field of study, pedagogical, didactic, and methodical, personal and social skills, especially disciplined and motivated, work team among fellow teachers and other education personnel. Besides, the issue of qualifications must be met by the teacher while other issues are the responsibility of the government is not like a teacher in teaching learners. According to Lutfi (2014), Kompas (11/04/2009) stated that it was consistent with the data from the secretary of BNSP by which rationally a number of primary school teachers were not available to teach, namely 609.217 people or about 49.3 % of all educators in Indonesia.”

It is supposed to be one of the focuses of improving the education system in Indonesia, given its more developed a country stems from quality education, quality education geared to the learning quality, quality learning starts from qualified teachers as well. The government especially the Ministry of Education should be responsible to ensure welfare of the teachers because the teacher performance will impossibly be good if their welfare is not guaranteed. Welfare is not only financial to meet the cost of living, but also in terms of the academic teachers.