Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem
This paper identifies the reasons children and young people leave school early in Merauke, Papua, and advances education policy initiatives to address these causes. Indonesia has a policy of 12 years of compulsory schooling, but many in Papua leave school early. The Indonesian government considers t...
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| description | This paper identifies the reasons children and young people leave school early in Merauke, Papua, and advances education policy initiatives to address these causes. Indonesia has a policy of 12 years of compulsory schooling, but many in Papua leave school early. The Indonesian government considers that chil-dren mainly leave school early for economic reasons, and addresses the problem through its social welfare programmes, as well as ‘supply- side’ factors such as the number of schools. This paper uses mainly ethnographic data, especially life his-tories collected from 22 young people and adults who left school early, to argue that besides economic reasons, the on- again- off-again history of schooling, the extremely problematic nature of that schooling, as well as socio-cultural causes such as the stigmatisation of the local Marind people, self stigmatisation and cultural discontinuity, combine to push children to leave school early. Multiple initiatives are suggested to improve the quality of education. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:2839622023-11-27T01:32:30Z https://repository.ugm.ac.id/283962/ Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem Parker, Lyn Sudibyo, Lintang Social and Cultural Anthropology This paper identifies the reasons children and young people leave school early in Merauke, Papua, and advances education policy initiatives to address these causes. Indonesia has a policy of 12 years of compulsory schooling, but many in Papua leave school early. The Indonesian government considers that chil-dren mainly leave school early for economic reasons, and addresses the problem through its social welfare programmes, as well as ‘supply- side’ factors such as the number of schools. This paper uses mainly ethnographic data, especially life his-tories collected from 22 young people and adults who left school early, to argue that besides economic reasons, the on- again- off-again history of schooling, the extremely problematic nature of that schooling, as well as socio-cultural causes such as the stigmatisation of the local Marind people, self stigmatisation and cultural discontinuity, combine to push children to leave school early. Multiple initiatives are suggested to improve the quality of education. Taylor & Francis 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repository.ugm.ac.id/283962/1/Why%20young%20people%20leave%20school%20early%20in%20Papua%20%20Indonesia%20%20and%20education%20policy%20options%20to%20address%20this%20problem.pdf Parker, Lyn and Sudibyo, Lintang (2022) Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem. Compare, - (-). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0305-7925 (In Press) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057925.2022.2084037 |
| spellingShingle | Social and Cultural Anthropology Parker, Lyn Sudibyo, Lintang Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title | Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title_full | Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title_fullStr | Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title_short | Why young people leave school early in Papua, Indonesia, and education policy options to address this problem |
| title_sort | why young people leave school early in papua indonesia and education policy options to address this problem |
| topic | Social and Cultural Anthropology |
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