Community Participation Deficits in the Implementation of School-Based Management in Indonesia

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the problems in the implementation of school-based management in Indonesia. The subjects of the research are 155 people consisted of 59 school principals, 52 school supervisors, 21 officers of Department of Education, and 23 elementary school teachers originated from 9 provinces, namely the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Central Java, East Java, South Sulawesi, Bali, Central Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, North Maluku, and Central Borneo. The subjects of the research were the representatives of their respective regencies/cities in each province which have implemented the CLCC program of UNESCO and UNICEF. The design of the research was quantitative to describe the attitudes, opinions, behavior, or typical characteristics of the population and embracing survey as the procedure. The data collection used open questionnaires and the answers to the questionnaires in the form of various types of problems in the implementation of school-based management faced by the respondents of the research. The researcher analyzed the data collected through descriptive statistics analysis technique. The results of the research show that the community participation deficit is a dominant problem in the implementation of school-based management faced by the government of Indonesia.

Keywords: community participation, school-based management, Indonesia