Indonesia’s RSBI Project: Looking Back and Lesson Learnt
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Published: 30 June 2024

Indonesia’s RSBI Project: Looking Back and Lesson Learnt

Rachma Noviani

University of Toronto, Canada

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10.31014/aior.1993.07.02.590

Pages: 207-214

Keywords: RSBI, Education Internationalization, Globalization, Education Policy Reforms, Social Justice

Abstract

At the beginning of the 2000s, Indonesia, a developing country with one of the largest populations in the world, instituted a series of reforms in its education practices; one of them was the decentralization policy. A part of this policy was education internationalization through the inclusion and enforcement of the international-standard schools pilot project known as Rintisan Sekolah Bertaraf International (RSBI) project. Nevertheless, the government discontinued the initiative in 2013 as a result of some disapproval of its implementation. This paper aims to address how the RSBI project diverged from social justice values in a democratic society. By analysing the influence of globalization on educational policies and their implications, it elaborates on how the project led to an increase in social inequality and contributed to the loss of national identity.

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