Institutionalisation of School Based Management: Implementation in Indonesia
Elni Jeini Usoh

Universitas Negeri Manado

Abstract

Abstract—School based management (SBM) is one strategy for providing school and community with more opportunities to make decisions that determine the goals and future direction of the school by relocation decision-making authority. This paper examines the concept of SBM, approaches and processes for its institutionalisation and provide the example of implementation in Indonesia. SBM can improve educational outcomes by improving accountability of principals and teachers to students, also parents and teachers by allowing local decision-makers to determine the appropriate inputs so that the education policies can be suitable to local realities and needs. The process of SBM implementation should begin by defining roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of the SBM team members, so the whole stakeholders can understand what SBM is and how it is implemented. After SBM implemented in Indonesia there is an increased of school attendance, created a sense of responsibility, raised the level of trust, motivation and support from parents and the community and raised the amount of funding from the community to support their schools. However, SBM implementation is not a simple effort and should be carried out under right condition. To create a school-level decision making team, should be composed of representatives from a variety of stakeholder groups which may need several stages and requires support of different level of governance as well as the community.

Keywords: school based management, sbm institutionalisation, sbm implementation.

Topic: Global Issues in Education and Research