This Annual Work Plan covers the second year of INOVASI Phase II over the July 2021– June 2022 period and describes an ambitious program of activity. We prepared the plan by consulting closely with key partners in the Indonesian government and drawing on the findings of the previous monitoring report and gender and disability health check. The National Steering Committee endorsed our focus in the plan at the meeting held on 30 April 2021.

INOVASI is an eight-year partnership between the Indonesian and Australian governments that began in January 2016. The TASS program began in January 2017 and the two programs merged in July 2020 at the start of INOVASI Phase II, that runs through to December 2023. We work with key partners in the Indonesian government (and in the non-government sector) to support changes in education practice, systems and policy that improve student learning outcomes, focusing on basic education and the foundational skills of literacy, numeracy, and character education/twenty-first century skills.

Under a reformist national administration, Indonesia has embarked on a comprehensive review and reform of its education system. This encompasses (1) a new curriculum, Kurikulum Merdeka (literally translated as the independent curriculum), intended to give teachers the professional freedom to adapt the curriculum to their students’ needs; (2) a new national assessment system that focuses on basic competencies in broad band levels, replacing the previous national examinations based on content knowledge in grade levels; and (3) new approaches to teacher training to support these changes. The Ministry for Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MoECRT) is launching a suite of programs aimed at transforming teaching and school management, supported by the non-government sector (Guru Penggerak, Sekolah Penggerak and Organisasi Penggerak). The Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA) is expanding its continuing professional development program for madrasah teachers and introducing a religious moderation program for the teaching of Islam. MoRA is seeking to synergise this latter program with MoECRT’s new character education program with INOVASI support.

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