The Strategic Role of Vocational School

There are at least four strategic roles that vocational schools play:

1. Vocational school is an integral part of the economic sectors that drive the national economic growth.

2. Vocational school improves the qulity of Indonesian labor force which in turn will enhance the competitive advantages of Indonesia’s economy.

3. Vocational school has proved to reduce unemployment rate in Indonesia.

4. Vocational school will support the development of businesses and industries in Indonesia.

Why Choosing Vocational Schools?

1. With equal educational quality, vocational schools may become the first choice among junior high school students.

2. Vocational schools will provide students with skills and competency enabling them to directly enter the job market.

3. Vocational schools have continuous partnership programs with businesses and industries that help the implementation of the link and match program.

4. Vocational school graduates have the opportunity to continue their education to higher tertiary education such as university.

5. Vocational school is the solution for solution for reducing unemployment rate and supporting economic development.

Vision, Mission, Goals and Targets of The Directorate of Technical and Vocational Education

VISION

To have vocational education institution which produce world qualified individual and expand the educational service based on local performance.

MISSION

- Improve the professionalism and accountability the Vocational Education Institution as an International Standard Competency Center.

- Implement the vocational education system with permeable and flexible method which is integrated between the level and phase of education.

- Extended and broaden the education access which is based on qulity and local performance.

- Improve the social involvement to running the vocational education.

- Develop the capacity Building of the vocational education management by having synchronization and coordination.

GOALS

- Develop Accountable Vocational Education Institution as an International Standard Competency Centre.

- To educate Human Resource which is have work ethos and International Standard Competency.

- To provide Vocational Education services with Permeable and Flexible method and integrated between the level and phase of education.

- To extend and broaden the vocational education access.

- To bring the local content as the national competitiveness capital.

- To ensure the educational process is suitable the social need.

- To utilise the social resources for educational process

- To optimise the educational resources to improve the service and the access of the vocational education.

TARGET

- All Teacher having competancy certificat and every 2-3 years attending the development training.

- 200 International Standard of SMK spread out in 40% of Kab/Kota.

- 1000 National Standard of Technical and Vocational School.

- 5000 foreign student.

- Number of student attending Industrial Practical Program in overseas 15.000/year.

- 60 of Technical and Vocational School having Joint Program with overseas institution.

- 5 Student win gold medals in WSC.

- Improve the new student capacity up to 1,75 million/year.

- Functioning 450 SMK as Community Center/CC (1 CC per kab/kota 100 CC as an embryo of Polytechnic), which also performed as an ICT Centre.

- 30 Technical and Vocational School running the Multy Entry – Multy Exit based on seamless Education.

- 6 PPPG became the “net” and 54 LSP function as Quality Assurance Institution.

- Having 30 Workstation

- 400 Technical and Vocational School as Testing Centre.

- 150.000 students have an International Certificate and 1.500.000 National Certificate.

- 75.000 becoming entrepreneurs.

- 1.000 SMK as a model of the community Development.

- Optimised the MPKN, MPKP and MPKD.

- Improve the new student capacity between 25-100 % through optimization the existing educational resources.

The Permeable and Flexible System

What does Permeable and Flexible Training System mean?

Permeable means each one educational unit or system can penetrate into the others. For examples, vocational school students may improve their academic capability by having a bridging course in a senior high school; on the other hand, senior high school students may have a bridging training in a certain major in vocational school.

Flexible means students may start and finish their training program at any time, especially those taking up multy entry-exit skill programs.

Growth Target: The Number of Vocational Schools, Students and Teachers

Component	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008	2008-2009	2009-2010
Number of students	2,1 Millions	2,4 Millions	2,9 Millions	3,5 Millions	4,3 Millions
Number of Teachers	94 Thousands	110 Thousands	138 Thousands	174 Thousands	216 Thousands
Number of Vocational Schools	6 Thousands	6,15 Thousands	6,3 Thousands	6,5 Thousands	6,6 Thousands

Ratio of Senior High School : Vocational School

Ratio of Senior High School : Vocational School

Year	Technical and Vocational School	Senior High School
2005-2006	35	65
2006-2007	37	63
2007-2008	38	62
2008-2009	43	57
2009-2010	50	50

The Importance of Skilled Workers

1. Skilled workers are directly involved in producing goods and services; they play a significant role in determining the quality level of the goods produced or the services rendered, and also the production cost.

2. Skilled workers are needed to support the growth of industries in a country.

3. As global competition has been fiercer day by day, skilled workers become the key success factor in facing the global competition.

4. The advancement of technology depends on skilled workers to master and apply.

5. Besides having a better opportunity for employment, skilled workers are also productive; the more skilled workers a nation has, the better and strong the economy.

6. Similarly, higher unemployment rate will occur if a nation lacks of skilled workers.