Finally the new curriculum 2013 has now applied. When it was still a curriculum plan (it was already created), it caused pros and cons from many scientist, about its lack in establishing students’ competence and creativity, its subject reduction, and the language that is used in it. Professor of mathematical sciences Institut Teknologi Bandung, Iwan Pranoto, said the curriculum is a legal document and manuscript culture of the nation. The reason is that the curriculum contains projections of future human that will be created through education. He regrets that after checking the curriculum documents, it will only produce the obedient students instead of the students who are innovative. He commented about the base competencies from math lessons for class I to VI. Everything is begun with the sentence "shows submissive behavior on the rules ..." which means that students have to obey orders. In fact, he said, Math allows students to find their own best way to answer the question. From what Iwan said, the new curriculum seems like bounding the students’ creativity, especially for math subject.
On
the other hand, education principle, Muhammad Nuh always tried to convince people to just believe in the
new curiculum. He claimed that the new curriculum that is being ripped by his team is able
to create the innovative, creative and tolerant student. "The
design is made to create the generations who will be able to face the life that
is getting hard. Also, their soul will be more tolerant because they used to
know there is more than one answer for a problem. So when they get adult, they
will not be easy fanatical toward the truth in mind, it is important for a
diverse country like " Nuh said that to approximately 4.000 teachers of
Muhammadiyah School
from D.I Yogyakarta and west Java in Muhammadiyah University in Yogyakarta on last Wednesday,
January 30 2013. That is surely right the students are going to be tolerant,
but there is still no obvious indication that the students will be
creative and innovative.
In the new curriculum some of the objects are eliminated such as Science and
Social subject for elementary school. There used to be 10 subjects, but now
they are only six, PKN, PAI,
Bahasa Indonesia, and Math for the main subject, and then Sport and Art.
Nuh defended that the subject like science and social studies are not
eliminated, but they are going to be attach in another subject as an
integrative thematic. It means both subjects are not a separated subject, but
merged into the Indonesian subjects. “For example, when discussing the river in Bahasa Indonesia, on science
side there is material about rainfall, the environment, and so on. For the
social studies is about the river in the form of benefits for the community,
the need to preserve the environment, and so on” He said. For many people, this
merging step leads to confusion. It is better if Bahasa Indonesia material enter into science and social
studies subjects or all subjects. Bahasa
Indonesia would be more
flexible to be integrated into any theme. If Bahasa
Indonesia was merged into
other subjects, it would be wrong because it would be contrary to the Law of
National Education System. In rule legislation was mentioned that Indonesian
should stand as a separate subject in the curriculum. As a result, conceptual
knowledge about science and social studies will not be understood maximally by
most students. Bahasa
Indonesia serves as a binder
or a subject guide related subjects (language across the curriculum).
There have been many articles that criticized about the previous curriculum
(KTSP) about its lack in building the character of student. Those articles
mostly stated that the students are academically matured, but mentally not.
That might be the reason why the new curriculum tends to focus on moral values in order to build student’s character. Related to moral values, Iwan concerned language
used in the 2013 curriculum as encountered in class XI economics lesson, the
basic competencies 1 sounds "accounting activities based on the teachings
of religious affiliation." Students even invited to
make allegations with the possibility of a sentence like "what if
..." and "what if not ..." then he added “From this it can be
seen, as if the kind of human who wants to be formed through 2013 Curriculum”.
Iwan’s view actually has a point, since the aim of the new curriculum is on
character building, but then it seems to have an aim to create students who are
doubtful.
Looking at the pros and cons, it is worth if the new curriculum was piloted in
a number of schools before the implementation. It is to show people
that the new curriculum is worth a trust. However, it has been applied widely as
the new curriculum in Indonesia. It seem like everyone should be just calm
down, believe and wait to see the things that are promised by the government
through the new curriculum. We hope one day at the time, we will see that it
was wrong to have hesitation on it.
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