Developing Standards for Language Teacher Education Programs in Indonesia: Professionalizing or Losing in Complexity?

Setting standards for language teacher education programs, liletEI7al5, and evaluation sparks some hope n attempts to improve the quality of the programs. Yet, this very fact augmented by my eaaminaUOn of ten language teacher education programs in Java. Bali, and Lampung (FKIP and PGRI) triggers a critical look at the idea of standard development. In particular, I would like to explore whether it can lead to a better professionalism or we are just lost in the complexity of the standardization itself. This paper consists of four sections. De-parting from an overview of language teacher education programs in Indonesia and the theoretical foindatioils, some major problems in this area are identified. Following this, the discussion is focused on the idea of standard development for language teacher education pro-grams in Indonesia. Eventually, some suggestions are put forth to highlight the need for establishing coherent curriculum framework bridging the two realms of language teacher education and school ini-Iieu as well as providing learners with knowledge base that enables them to cope with complex demands of school settings and more essentially, to act as an agent in the social change process

Survey And New Approach In Service Discovery And Advertisement For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.

Service advertisement and discovery is an important component for mobile adhoc communications and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments. The ability to discover services offered in a mobile adhoc network is the major prerequisite for effective usability of these networks. This paper aims to classify and compare existing Service Discovery (SD) protocols for MANETs by grouping them based on their SD strategies and service information accumulation strategies, and to propose an efficient approach for addressing the inherent issues

The distribution of the benefits from social services in Indonesia, 1978-87

Indonesia has made great progress in the past fifteen years in giving the poor more access to privately provided goods such as food, clothing, and housing. The author analyzes how much progress has been made in improving their access to two publicly provided social services, education and health care. She finds that given existing patterns of use, education spending is more efficient at directly reaching the poor than is health spending. In the education sector, subsidies to primary education are most likely to reach poorer households and raise their living standards. In the late 1980s, enrollments remained higher for urban than for rural areas, for male than for female children, and for the Outer Islands than for Java. But rates of improvement in enrollments during the last decade have been higher for rural, female, and poorer children than for the urban, male, and richer counterparts. The results indicate that rising living standards played a part in raising enrollment. But other factors were substantially more important - public policy aimed at increasing the number of primary schools and teachers and at lowering the costs of attending school. In the health sector, subsidies to basic primary health care provide the best avenue for reaching the poor, but they are far from ideal as an instrument for doing so.Health Economics&Finance,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Poverty Assessment,Housing&Human Habitats,Gender and Education

October 23, 2006

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Timor link, no. 35, March 1996

Contents: Inhibited dialogue, Eyewitness account, Human rights: Amnesty International report, UN High Commissioner reports, Recent human rights violations, Asia-Europe summit, Xanana's release requested, Portugal-Indonesia talks, EU common position, Clinton meets Suharto, New ambassador to Australia, Murder inquiry, International round-up, Church news, Who rules in East Timor? -- New publication: partners in repressio

Mustang Daily, September 25, 2003

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