The Policy of Secondary Education about the Solution of GER Dropping in Pacitan Regency

Abstract

Education is an important aspect that determines the direction of a nation. The implication, it needs serious efforts in order to increase the participation in education; one of them is measured by the APK (GER). The purpose of this study is to determine the presence of GER in Pacitan and how the efforts of acceleration can be done to achieve the government's target of GER of 97% in 2020. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach, and conducted during the months of January to March 2015. The results show that GER presence in Pacitan is still low. It was about 70.17% in 2014, with its rate of around 1.1%. In fact, normatively the existence of secondary schools in Pacitan is enough, but in terms of the ability of the power absorbed is still not optimal. Therefore, the government needs to provide a variety of efforts to increase the availability of secondary facilities, a range of the high schools, the access in financing the secondary schools, the service quality of the secondary schools, and also the public perception of the added value which is obtained by the high schools.

Keyword: APK (GER), access, affordability, secondary education