Public-Private Partnerships in Improving the Quality of Education for the Poor in Indonesia

Abstract

Educational issues related to access and quality of education, but a lot of the problems that must be faced is about inadequate resources: human and funds. Local government needs to make an appropriate policy and programme to overcome it. Authority on the affairs of education makes a room for the local government in Indonesia on making innovative programs to build private partnerships with the goal of improving education quality in Indonesia. This research aims at answering the questions regarding: 1). The authority of Local Government on holding a partnership with private on improving the education quality in Indonesia. 2). The Public Private Partnership program on improving the education quality. Data Analysis with Domain analysis, Pattern matching (explanatory / descriptive)  Robert K.Yin, with three stages: (1) Expected outcomes as a pattern,(2) Rival explanations as patterns , (3)Simpler patterns The results of this study as follows: 1).The Local Government authority to manage educational programs are becoming a creative media on implementing governance, by holding a partnership with private sectors as well as the society 2). A partnership program for improving education quality is implemented with: (a) to make an agreement with a clear MoU; (b) to generate a shared motivation on the partnership to make it well-implemented, efficient, integrated, effective and accountable; (c) to have an initiative for implementing the partnership by supervising the process up to the operational; (d) Build a collaborative partnership for the organizational relationship on the local government and private sector.  This research recommends the need of wider partnership in educational sector that can involve inter-local government, private sectors, and the society,

Keywords: Public Private Partnership, improvement, quality, education.