Reflections Education Day

 “.... melindungi segenap bangsa Indonesia dan seluruh tumpah darah Indonesia dan untuk memajukan kesejahteraan umum, mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa, dan ikut melaksanakan ketertiban dunia yang berdasarkan kemerdekaan....”

The quote is not foreign anymore our ears, especially since the opening of the Indonesian nation heard of the 1945 Constitution. The opening of the 1945 Constitution should not be changed at all, either plus or minus because one of the reasons that there are ideals - ideals such as the above-mentioned countries. Because it is the basic philosophy of the movement of the Indonesian constitution. Short description of the ideals inscribed in the constitution.
One of the ideals - ideals of Indonesia is the nation's intellectual life. Path to achieve this is by education. Education is a process to improve, repair, change the knowledge, skills, and attitudes as well as the code of conduct a person or group of people in the intellectual effort of human life through the guidance of teaching and training activities (Zainuddin, 2008: 1). With education, a person can change his fate, viewed, and change the status of social work. So can we identify that education is the key to changing the condition of the nation.Education is an absolute that must be obtained by all citizens. This is also strengthened by our constitution in Article 31 UUDNRI 1945. Government through the Ministry of Education and Culture in charge of providing educational services to all citizens of Indonesia. With a 20% budget allocation of the cost of educational services can be expected to produce the successor to the nation's most qualified and able to uplift this nation. But unfortunately, what is the goal - the goal is still not performing well. Facilities of school buildings, teachers and the cost is still the reason for inhibition of classical education in this country. Certainly in our minds the question "dikemanakan budget is 20% state budget". Some time ago we also saw on television there is an elementary school student who had to struggle to cross the river by the bridge collapse that left only a piece of wire.
Recent unrest arose among the people about the existence of the bill PT (Higher Education). This law indicates the commercialization of education, is implied in Article 64 of the Bill of PT, which reads "Universities have autonomy to manage their own agency as a central organizing Tridharma". Can be further elaborated that the PT is allowed to exploit the funds for its needs. It is possible there will be investment into the PT of the party which has its own interests, it is able to realize Capitalism in our education. In short PT can be traded as well as raise the price of tuition for students dengana reason needs PT.Is this a reflection of the Government of responsibility for the intelligence of the nation's releasing this? Is this form of discrimination against the education of our friends who are in the eastern area there? Has the government meet in protecting kewajibanya RIGHT NATION??
Let us compare with the building Banggar (agency budgets) House of Representatives that has cost 20 billion dollars for the renovation, while the unit price of each seat 10 million dollars were imported from Germany. it is not real?
Happy of National Education day