Study to be Employed?
Working in a farm, becoming labor
for industry, sweating for serving plates of rice to fulfill the day are not
what people want in their daily life, yet Indonesians most likely do. Bureau of
Indonesia’s Statistics (BPS) stated that, by Feb 7th, 7.20 percent of productive
Indonesians population are unemployed. Meanwhile, the numbers of employment
force people to accept low salary jobs; below the standardized salary which
government has set. One of the major problem which cause the issue is the
mindset of students after they graduate. Most schools may only have been
developed students with a rigid structured curriculum, so they are only ready
to pass the standardized test, follow the instruction book and work repeatedly
over and over until reaching the criteria of success.
In Indonesia, school’s subjects
are organized based on the current standardized test’s criteria. The numbers of
different subjects for this one particular test have created the unbalanced students’
intelligence. Students are expected to master all subjects, yet they will not
use or have least interests in them. If they are able to learn all, they are
taught in only a few strict method, so afterward they have a same way in
thinking. This is shown by the number of entrepreneurship, which needs creative
thinking, in Indonesia is low as 4 percent (Tempo).
Other than that, the way of
thinking in Indonesia is developed to follow certain pattern, therefore
inventions are scarce in Indonesia. Some teachers taught students only with a
single way solutions which they prefer. As the result, some students are afraid
to make mistakes, so they follow that solution from their teacher. This process
of learning has omitted creativity. All inventions around the world were
created because the inventor wanted to have different approach in solving
problems. Up to 2010, only sixteen patents, by Indonesians, compared to 654
patents made by Malaysian shows a huge different of both nation.
We may say that Indonesia’s
curriculum are strict and rigid, even too difficult, but it is one of the
advanced curriculum in the world shown by the presence of college-level
material in school curriculum. Nevertheless, when school is trying to make us
succeed, some may say the criteria of success is vary. They may teach us
calculus to become a great engineer, or biology for becoming a doctor, but
painter and sculpture creator are some examples of successful jobs which need
practice. Moreover, variety of jobs decrease employment because people become
creative and utilize what they have for earning income.
School may have become the
problem of the unsuccessful students by setting the criteria of smart and
skillful students. The lack of judgment criteria have contributed to numbers of
employee, instead of employer. Rigid and strict school’s system correspondingly
cut numbers of patents and inventions, even it judge students’ choices for
future jobs. Thus, we may need to change Indonesian school’s system to catch up
with developed countries which allow students to choose their own classes.
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