NU will build 75 international standard schools in Indonesia

Surabaya, NU Online
Indonesia's biggest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has increasingly been serious in dealing with the educational world. Till 2014 NU will have built 75 international standard schools (SBI).

"The schools will be built across Indonesia," said deputy secretary of the Educational Institution of Maarif NU Dr. Mamat Salamet Burhanuddin on the sidelines of a workshop discussing efforts of strengthening international standard schools within the NU milieu at the Hajj Dormitory Sukolilo, Surabaya on Friday (9/10).<>

He said that the number of SBIs between one region and another are possibly not the same. In West Java for instance, he said, there would expectedly be built as many as 5 SBIs, adding that in West Papua (1), Bali (2), Banten (5), Lampung (3), Yogyakarta (10), East Kalimantan (2), Central Java (10), East Java (20), Jakarta (6), and West Kalimantan (2), while Southeast Sulawesi (1), Bengkulu (4), and Gorontalo (1).

The construction of the schools, he added, was aimed at strengthening and increasing quality of human resources within the NU milieu.

"Of course there would be conducted a gradually monitoring to constantly control the quality of the SBIs," he said.

One of the reasons of the purposeful workshop is there have still been few international standard pilot-project schools (RSBI) within the NU community.

In addition to creating a new atmophere for educational institutions/schools which have high quality in dealing with academic, personality and school social, the workshop is also aimed at making model, prominent, innovative and creative educational institutions/schools and formulating basic concepts of international education within the NU mileu. (dar)