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• Enabling children to grow up with good nutrition, sanitation, hygiene and healthcare

• Improving the quality of primary education and giving more children the chance to go to school

• Helping families increase their incomes and helping young people to find employment

• Promoting children’s rights and protecting children from violence, abuse and exploitation

• Helping communities to reduce the risk of disasters like the 2004 tsunami

‘Right now, children are happy and feel at home while studying in the classroom’

a YeaR In

IndOnesIa sUMMaRY RePORT

2010

OUR PRIORITIesin Indonesia

Capital: JakartaPopulation: 240.2 millionLanguages: Bahasa Indonesia (official). About 583 other languages and dialects are spokenClimate: Indonesia has a tropical climate, with two distinct monsoonal wet and dry seasons. Average annual rainfall in the lowlands varies from 1780–3175 millimeters, and up to 6100 millimeters in mountainous regions. Mountainous areas – particularly in the west coast of Sumatra, West Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua – receive the highest rainfall. Humidity is generally

high, averaging about 80 per cent. Temperatures vary little throughout the year; the average daily temperature range of Jakarta is 26–30°C.Economy: Indonesia’s estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2008 was US$511 billion. The industry sector is the economy’s largest and accounts for 48.1 per cent of GDP (2008). This is followed by services (37.5 per cent) and agriculture (14.4 per cent). However, agriculture employs more people than other sectors, accounting for 42.1 per cent of the 112 million-strong workforce.

IndOnesIa FaCTs

• Almost a third of children are malnourished

• In rural areas, more than a quarter of people don’t have clean drinking water

• Many children drop out of primary school and very few attend preschool

3 gOOd ReasOns why Plan works in Indonesia

Children monitor the progress of villages in a project targeting open defecation

Family vegetable plots are important food sources in many parts of Indonesia

FOCUs On:education Education in Indonesia is generally poor. Primary school drop-out rates are high, only half of children go on to secondary school and few go to preschool. Plan helps to improve educational standards and increase the number of children who attend and complete school. Our school improvement projects cover teacher training,

a haPPY PlaCe TO Be‘I saw that students were worried about going to school and meeting their teachers.’

Dahlan, a teacher from Waienga, eastern Indonesia, is remembering how things used to be at his school. As he explains how he used to teach, it becomes clear that the methods he used weren’t helping children to feel happy and relaxed at school, and were preventing them from learning as well as they could. It’s not surprising that students were, in Dahlan’s words: ‘frightened to see their teachers’.

‘As teachers, we felt we had to dominate, and students had to be good listeners. We usually gave them both physical and mental sanctions by yelling at them in front of their friends,’ admits Dahlan.

The situation he describes was common in many schools in Lembata District. Teachers often used corporal punishment when students behaved badly, and this discouraged them from going to school. Dahlan became concerned about these teaching methods and about students’ wellbeing. ‘However, I did not know how to change the situation ’.

Child-friendly teachingThings changed for the better when Dahlan got involved in a Plan project to promote child-friendly teaching methods which encourage students to learn in an effective but enjoyable way, and feel able to express their ideas.

Children are encouraged to transform their classrooms from traditional settings to become more attractive and welcoming by, for example, changing seating arrangements and decorating walls with their work. Interactive teaching and learning aids are created so children enjoy their lessons and find it easier to learn.

In 2008, Plan began work with the government’s District Office of Education, Youth and Sports Affairs in Lembata to run a training course on active, creative, enjoyable learning methods. One hundred and fifty people took part, including teachers, headteachers, village heads, and local education officers. Dahlan was one of these and, along with many others, he was inspired to change his teaching methods.

Learning to be creativeDahlan had noticed that ‘many teaching aids at school were not being used because teachers did not know how to use them.’ At the training course, he was shown how to create learning

and teaching aids using local and recycled materials, rather than buying them.

‘Creating new learning and teaching aids with students is great fun. Students learn new things. They have become more open to me and are not afraid of me any longer,’ Dahlan says. He and his students have changed the look of their classroom by displaying colourful learning aids and students’ creative work.

Making school a happy place to beThanks to the new teaching methods and more welcoming classrooms, Dahlan and his fellow teachers have seen significant changes in the way their students learn. ‘Right now, they are happy and feel at home while studying in the classroom,’ says Dahlan with a smile.

Abdul, 11, says: ‘Since the training, my teacher Dahlan teaches us with interesting tools. He has become nice and listens to me. He shares with us what he got from the training. Now I feel comfortable in the class.’

Thanks to Plan, almost 1500 teachers from over 200 primary schools have now taken part in the training course. They have changed their teaching style from intimidating to child-friendly, with mutual respect between teachers and students.

Some names have been changed for child protection and privacy reasons

curriculum development and school management. We also raise awareness of the value of education, and encourage local government to support schools more.

Produced for Indonesia by Plan International Australia.

Plan is working with children, families and communities to find sustainable solutions to the challenges in Indonesia. We have only given you a small insight into Plan’s work in Indonesia with this report but over the past year we also:

• Supported 26 mainstream schools to include disabled children, by training teachers, providing equipment, and referring children who need special support

• Trained 63 health workers in malnutrition and passed on skills to midwives in seven districts affected by the 2004 tsunami

• Helped to provide safe drinking water, toilets and hand-washing facilities to 200 schools

Your support as a sponsor is crucial to achieving these results. With the resources provided by sponsors, Plan expertise and the collaboration of communities and local partners we are making a big difference to the lives of people in Indonesia.

Thank you for your involvement!

The BIggeR PICTURe

‘Indonesia has made good progress in providing a framework to realise the children’s rights, while at the same time struggling with poverty and minimising the regional disparities (between west, central and eastern areas) which characterise the country’ – John McDonough, Plan’s Country Director in Indonesia

To learn more about Plan’swork in Indonesia visitplan.org.au/ourwork/asia/indonesia

Children in class at a school in Waienga

‘Creating new learning and teaching aids with students is great fun. Students learn new things. They have become more open to me and are not afraid of me any longer’