Pidato Bahasa Inggris: Education in Indonesia

Asslamualaikum wr. wb.

The honorable ones the principle of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung, all teachers and administr
ation staffs of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung and all my friends from tenth until twelfth grade
.
Before I begin to give a speech, I would like to invite you all to thank Allah the Almig
hty, Who has given us Mercy and Blessing, so we can meet together in this blessing pla
ce. And also let’s deliver sholawat and salam to our prophet Muhammad SAW, Who ha
s brought us from the darkness to the brightness, so we are always in the right path.

Ladies and gentlemen

It be a great honor for me, to stand right here in front of you all to give a speech about
education under the title "Education in Indonesia" in this National Education Day or H
ARDIKNAS.
Indonesian is a great country. It has so many natural resources that can be used. It has s
o many beautiful palaces that can mesmerize people. It is so beautiful to live here peace
fully with different cultures, languages, and religions. However, why are there still many
people who live under poverty in this country? The only answer to this question is beca
use our human resources are still low in the term of education.
If you have ever heard about the news about our international education rank, you woul
d be surprised. As quoted form Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 201
1 which is published by UNESCO and launched in New York on Sunday, 1/3/2011, ou
r international education rank is at 69th place from 129 surveyed countries all over the
world. This rank is lower than in 2010.
It opens a question that runs in my head, what happen with our education? Indonesia is
a great country with many talented young generations. It was undoubted again that there
are so many Indonesian students who win the international education Olympiads such as
mathematics, chemical, physics and other. But why our international education rank is sti
ll low. So what happen with with our education?

Ladies and gentlemen

There must be a reason why our human resources and our global rank in education are s
till low. One of the reasons is that our education is expensive. For middle up to high cla
ss people the cost of our education is nothing. But for those who live in lower economic
class, the cost of our education is beyond their reach. Many of them even abandon thei
r duty to go to school just because they have to work to fulfill their needs.
Our government has made a policy recently to overcome the problem in our education.
The policy is increasing national educational budget up to 20% from APBN. This budget
later on is used to make education is reachable for low economic level society; to impr
ove teachers’ quality with a program which well known as “sertifikasi”; and to provide s
chool facilities such as library, classroom, laboratory, and sport hall.

Ladies and gentlemen

We hope the policy that the government made will make our educational quality better.
Of course as a student, we don’t just sit down and relax without doing something. Good
or bad the quality of education of our country also depend us. If we want to change ou
r bad educational paradigm, let’s begin with improving our achievement with studying h
ard for the sake of our education.
I hope this speech that I deliver today will be useful for you all. Thank you so much fo
r your attention. The last I say:

Wasalamualaikum Wr. Wb.