{"id":19822,"date":"2019-08-16T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2019-08-16T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:09:54","slug":"education-indonesia-budget-178-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/education-indonesia-budget-178-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Education at the focus of new Indonesia proposed budget worth $178 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The President of Indonesia, <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indonesia.cz\/the-government-of-the-republic-of-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Joko Widodo<\/b><\/a><b>, has introduced a new proposed budget for the country worth a hundred and seventy-eight billion dollars (USD 178 billion), which will place a focus on developing the educational system.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the proposed budget, Indonesia will be aiming to achieve a five percent (5.3%) growth in its gross domestic product (GDP). <\/span><b>Two of the other goals for the proposed budget are to improve the labor market and boost basic education in the country.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Widodo also emphasized that a portion of the budget should go towards developing emerging skills like programming, data analytics, and digital design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education budgeting should be a priority<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Many countries all over the world are struggling with providing sufficient funding for the educational system.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A recent example is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/wales-budget-cuts-parents-pay-for-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">budgeting crisis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the United Kingdom, which has brought forward concerns by both faculty members and parents.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The fact that President Widodo is paying particular attention to the development of skills rising in popularity speaks of the government\u2019s ambition to push Indonesia forward.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Keeping up with the trends in modern labor markets is essential to make a country\u2019s economy work in the future.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The proposed budget will introduce an increase of more than thirty percent (30%) for education compared to the previous year.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This increase will allow the improvement of all public schools across the country and will be used to finance more than eight hundred thousand (817,000) students to go to university.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>President Widodo\u2019s dedication to the improvement of the school system is commendable, as it shows the government is looking to work for the future of Indonesia.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has introduced a new proposed budget for the country worth a hundred and seventy-eight billion dollars (USD 178 billion), which will place a focus on developing the educational system. According to the proposed budget, Indonesia will be aiming to achieve a five percent (5.3%) growth in its gross domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[452,756,1124,1139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}