Education in Indonesia: Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Justice (Zulfa Sakhiyya and Teguh Wijaya, Eds.)

Abstract

What are the goals of education? How do they relate to projects of
democracy? In evaluating the success of education programs, why are international
comparative rankings the gold standard of evaluation? Should we
assess the objectives of education at the personal, community, or national
level? These are some of the thought-provoking questions that arise when
reading Zulfa Sakhiyya and Teguh Wijaya’s edited volume Education in
Indonesia: Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Justice (2023). This collection
of fourteen essays presents a critical perspective on education in
Indonesia—the world’s fourth-largest education system, yet one that ranks
relatively poorly across various categories of evaluation in the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA).