The honorable ones the principle of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung, all teachers and administration staffs of

SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung and all my friends from tenth until twelfth grade.

Before I begin to give a speech, I would like to invite you all to thank Allah the Almighty, Who has given us
Mercy and Blessing, so we can meet together in this blessing place. And also lets
deliver sholawatand salam to our prophet Muhammad SAW, Who has brought us from the darkness to
the brightness, so we are always in the right path.

Ladies and gentlemen

It be a great honor for me, to stand right here in front of you all to give a speech about education under
the title "Education in Indonesia" in this National Education Day or HARDIKNAS.

Indonesian is a great country. It has so many natural resources that can be used. It has so many beautiful
palaces that can mesmerize people. It is so beautiful to live here peacefully with different cultures,
languages, and religions. However, why are there still many people who live under poverty in this
country? The only answer to this question is because our human resources are still low in the term of
education.

If you have ever heard about the news about our international education rank, you would be surprised. As
quoted form Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2011 which is published by UNESCO and
launched in New York on Sunday, 1/3/2011, our international education rank is at 69th place from 129
surveyed countries all over the world. This rank is lower than in 2010.

It opens a question that runs in my head, what happen with our education? Indonesia is a great country
with many talented young generations. It was undoubted again that there are so many Indonesian
students who win the international education Olympiads such as mathematics, chemical, physics and
other. But why our international education rank is still low. So what happen with with our education?

Ladies and gentlemen

There must be a reason why our human resources and our global rank in education are still low. One of
the reasons is that our education is expensive. For middle up to high class people the cost of our education
is nothing. But for those who live in lower economic class, the cost of our education is beyond their reach.
Many of them even abandon their duty to go to school just because they have to work to fulfill their needs.

Our government has made a policy recently to overcome the problem in our education. The policy is
increasing national educational budget up to 20% from APBN. This budget later on is used to make
education is reachable for low economic level society; to improve teachers quality with a program which
well known as sertifikasi; and to provide school facilities such as library, classroom, laboratory, and
sport hall.

Ladies and gentlemen

We hope the policy that the government made will make our educational quality better. Of course as a
student, we dont just sit down and relax without doing something. Good or bad the quality of education
of our country also depend us. If we want to change our bad educational paradigm, lets begin with
improving our achievement with studying hard for the sake of our education.

I hope this speech that I deliver today will be useful for you all. Thank you so much for your attention. The
last I say: