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Education ministry fails to deliver on teachers' allowance
NU Online · Sabtu, 7 Februari 2009 | 21:27 WIB
Denpasar, NU Online
The National Education Ministry has been reducing the number of private school teachers in Bali allowed to receive Rp 200,000 (US$18) per month in allowances, while the island's officials complain they are helpless to do anything about it.
Since the provision of an allowance of Rp 200,000 per month for Bali's teachers in 2007, the ministry has cut back on the number of private school teachers allowed to receive the allowance, from 6,562 teachers in 2007 to 5,031 in 2008, to an expected 4,954 in 2009.<>
I Gede Ngurah Aryasa, research center head at the Bali Education, Youth and Sports Agency's educational quality division, said his agency had no power to override the reduction.
"All we can do is just leave it to the leaders in the central government, because there's nothing we can do to affect their decision," Aryasa said.
Data from the agency shows Bali has 13,413 private school teachers spread across the island's eight regencies and one municipality this year.
This means that as many as 8,459 such teachers, or 63.1 percent, will not receive the allowance.
"So not all private school teachers will get the allowances from the central government, and this has presented us with quite a dilemma in figuring out who deserves these allowances," Aryasa said.
He added the agency was currently prioritizing teachers who had served the longest in Bali, teaching for at least 24 hours a week and working as a formal employee of the private school and not a substitute teacher.
He said the eight regencies and the municipality of Denpasar had the prerogative over the selection, and urged officials from the area to submit the names of selected teachers to the agency.
"We at the agency can only facilitate. We hope these allowances will go to those teachers who really deserve them," he said.
"And we hope the government will allocate more money and increase the number of eligible teachers so that we can raise the quality of life of Bali's teachers." (jp/dar)
The National Education Ministry has been reducing the number of private school teachers in Bali allowed to receive Rp 200,000 (US$18) per month in allowances, while the island's officials complain they are helpless to do anything about it.
Since the provision of an allowance of Rp 200,000 per month for Bali's teachers in 2007, the ministry has cut back on the number of private school teachers allowed to receive the allowance, from 6,562 teachers in 2007 to 5,031 in 2008, to an expected 4,954 in 2009.<>
I Gede Ngurah Aryasa, research center head at the Bali Education, Youth and Sports Agency's educational quality division, said his agency had no power to override the reduction.
"All we can do is just leave it to the leaders in the central government, because there's nothing we can do to affect their decision," Aryasa said.
Data from the agency shows Bali has 13,413 private school teachers spread across the island's eight regencies and one municipality this year.
This means that as many as 8,459 such teachers, or 63.1 percent, will not receive the allowance.
"So not all private school teachers will get the allowances from the central government, and this has presented us with quite a dilemma in figuring out who deserves these allowances," Aryasa said.
He added the agency was currently prioritizing teachers who had served the longest in Bali, teaching for at least 24 hours a week and working as a formal employee of the private school and not a substitute teacher.
He said the eight regencies and the municipality of Denpasar had the prerogative over the selection, and urged officials from the area to submit the names of selected teachers to the agency.
"We at the agency can only facilitate. We hope these allowances will go to those teachers who really deserve them," he said.
"And we hope the government will allocate more money and increase the number of eligible teachers so that we can raise the quality of life of Bali's teachers." (jp/dar)
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