Character Education Policy and Its Implications for Learning in Indonesia’s Education System

This Insight discusses the character education policy within the Indonesian education system, which still faces key challenges to improve learning outcomes. From the team’s diagnostic of the Indonesian education system, they find that education policymakers and stakeholders in Indonesia perceive that character education can solve societal issues related to moral degradation. The team hypothesises that the one-sided implementation of the policy is due to the lack of clarity in the “delegation” aspect of the policy design, which results in a variety of conflicting interpretations by education stakeholders at national, local, and school levels.