Free
fee-paying education has been debated for years. Pros have a base that by
freeing tuition fee, all of elements of society are able to have a good
education. It means that no more poor people cannot go to school because of lack
of fund. On the other hand, cons believe that best education needs more
finances. They think best education needs best medium means more finances. I
personally think that the government should free the tuition fees from
kindergarten to higher education.
Each
country has its own regulation of education. Indonesia has a noble aim as it is
stated in the preamble of the constitution; to educate the life of the people.
Young, old, male, female, all of people need education. In addition, Indonesian
Constitution regulates many things related to the country, one of them is
education. As in the second verse of article 31, the 1945 Constitution of the
Republic of Indonesia, stated that every citizen has the obligation to
undertake basic education and the government has the obligation to fund this.
Government has been estimating 20.2 % of APBN for education in 2012. That is a
minimal amount of estimation of educational fund. For that reason, government
should increase the amount of educational fund in APBN.
Education
is not a commodity. Education is totally different with goods; it cannot be
commercialized. RSBI, for instance, although it refers to international
curriculum, it does not mean the fee must be equal as in overseas. Highly-cost
education made a great gap between poor and rich. Once an institution requires
unaffordable sum of money by underprivileged people, they cannot get better
education as the rich gets. In short, education should not need amount of
money.
The
third reason is equalization in education. As it is stated in the ordinance no.
20 year 2003, article 5, that every citizen possesses chance to increase their
education all the life. Therefore, people had better get good education.
Education takes a big part in raising human resources. The more high-quality
human resources Indonesia has, the sooner Indonesia becomes a developed
country. That is why setting free-paying education is a good way to reach
equalization in education.
I
am the same mind of making tuition fees at no cost from kindergarten to higher
education based on three reasons. They are regulation of education in this
country, education is not a commodity and equalization in education. Moreover,
achieving this objective requires support from all sides; government, teachers,
parents and students.
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