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C. Agus et al.
1 Introduction
We are currently living in the world with mental damage and disruption in all fields.
Chris Hedges, a senior journalist from USA noted that living in such condition
where doctors ruin health, disruption of justice undermines legal system, disruption
of higher education spoils knowledge, disruption of government smashes up freedom
and authority, disruption of newspaper and social media ruins public information,
fanaticism decreases morality. To solve such problems, Nelson Mandela noted that
education is the best weapon to change a better world (Anonim 2017; Agus 2016a,
2017, 2018).
However, education system face the worst fact in which four international surveys
put Indonesian education in the lowest rank. The Learning Curve ranked Indonesian
in the bottom. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
nominated in the 64th out of 65 countries, and in the 40th rank out of 42 based
on TIMS and PIRLS. Moreover, World Education Forum managed under United
Nations put in the 69th from 76 nations whereas World Literacy ranked 60th out
of 61 countries. United Nation Educational contended that merely one (1) of 1000
people was able to have good reading motivation (Anonim 2017; Agus 2016a, 2017,
2018).
The test selection or Ujian Nasional (national examination) for kindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools does not seem to make them becoming good learners.
Students who takes national examination in Yogyakarta were depressed, taking short
cuts, cheating, corruption, grade orientation, substance loss and integrity. Students
cannot integrate cultural and humanitarian values. Schools mean heavy, difficult,
scary, and boring. Yulia (2014) in her research underlines the aim of teaching English
is to passing the national examination, not to achieve student communicative competence. The examination tested students’ knowledge not creating a meaningful text
(discourse competence) as highlighted by Celce-Murcia et al. (1995).
Students are separated with cultural values and humanity, thus they become easily
tempted to play games and entertainment that make them happy. In other words,
technology that is fun make them addicted. Likewise, the rampant at the beginning
of the lesson actually makes a vengeful individual, violent, ego, not respect; therefore,
they might later become leaders of the nation who can be arrogant and want to win
his own (Agus 2016a, 2017, 2018).
Indonesia must undertake the restoration (renewal, revolution) of education by
re-discovering the “khithah” (back to nature) of the appropriate national education
system which provides intelligent, broad, profound and futuristic insights (Agus
2016a, b, 2017, 2018). It, therefore, fosters responsibility and contribution in realizing
a sustainable, dignified, and sustainable environment. It is supposed to be strongly
rooted in their own culture with contemporary reforms, and refers to an educational
system that is fun (edutainment) and emphasizes cultural values and humanity that
has been coined by Ki Hadjar Dewantara when establishing Tamansiswa in 1922 in
Yogyakarta (Widodo 2017).
C. Agus et al.
1 Introduction
We are currently living in the world with mental damage and disruption in all fields.
Chris Hedges, a senior journalist from USA noted that living in such condition
where doctors ruin health, disruption of justice undermines legal system, disruption
of higher education spoils knowledge, disruption of government smashes up freedom
and authority, disruption of newspaper and social media ruins public information,
fanaticism decreases morality. To solve such problems, Nelson Mandela noted that
education is the best weapon to change a better world (Anonim 2017; Agus 2016a,
2017, 2018).
However, education system face the worst fact in which four international surveys
put Indonesian education in the lowest rank. The Learning Curve ranked Indonesian
in the bottom. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
nominated in the 64th out of 65 countries, and in the 40th rank out of 42 based
on TIMS and PIRLS. Moreover, World Education Forum managed under United
Nations put in the 69th from 76 nations whereas World Literacy ranked 60th out
of 61 countries. United Nation Educational contended that merely one (1) of 1000
people was able to have good reading motivation (Anonim 2017; Agus 2016a, 2017,
2018).
The test selection or Ujian Nasional (national examination) for kindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools does not seem to make them becoming good learners.
Students who takes national examination in Yogyakarta were depressed, taking short
cuts, cheating, corruption, grade orientation, substance loss and integrity. Students
cannot integrate cultural and humanitarian values. Schools mean heavy, difficult,
scary, and boring. Yulia (2014) in her research underlines the aim of teaching English
is to passing the national examination, not to achieve student communicative competence. The examination tested students’ knowledge not creating a meaningful text
(discourse competence) as highlighted by Celce-Murcia et al. (1995).
Students are separated with cultural values and humanity, thus they become easily
tempted to play games and entertainment that make them happy. In other words,
technology that is fun make them addicted. Likewise, the rampant at the beginning
of the lesson actually makes a vengeful individual, violent, ego, not respect; therefore,
they might later become leaders of the nation who can be arrogant and want to win
his own (Agus 2016a, 2017, 2018).
Indonesia must undertake the restoration (renewal, revolution) of education by
re-discovering the “khithah” (back to nature) of the appropriate national education
system which provides intelligent, broad, profound and futuristic insights (Agus
2016a, b, 2017, 2018). It, therefore, fosters responsibility and contribution in realizing
a sustainable, dignified, and sustainable environment. It is supposed to be strongly
rooted in their own culture with contemporary reforms, and refers to an educational
system that is fun (edutainment) and emphasizes cultural values and humanity that
has been coined by Ki Hadjar Dewantara when establishing Tamansiswa in 1922 in
Yogyakarta (Widodo 2017).