Comment Regarding to Mr Marsigit's Article about Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional

RSBI has been really popular these days in Indonesia. But almost none of those schools deserve to become SBI due to some urgent point. In this article, Mr. Marsigit had written about 22 points about why RSBI schools couldn't become SBI. This article is indeed really good for everyone worked in education section. In fact, there is lot of misunderstanding about RSBI itself.

It is not an easy job to build such internationally based school.  According to Mr. Marsigit’s  review among some of RSBI schools. The thing that fatally prove is when Mr. Marsigit came to review some RSBI, is when they are still using traditional teaching method. How could they declare themselves as internationally based school if the teaching method is delivery method, that the teacher become the only source of learning, the teacher also surprisingly overactive while they didn’t let the student become their listener all day long.

Seems like the RSBI schools have such understanding which is truly not right: internationally based schools manage it class as if word U. And at some RSBI schools, they manage all the class just exactly like that. That will be definitely okay if the teaching learning process goes to student centered. But unfortunately it just hasn’t happen yet.

Besides, the government also play an important rules to RSBI. They have to fully supportive and occasionally check how far the RSBI has growing. SBI schools should be a regional and local community needs as well as the Central Government under the program legislation. Therefore the government, as the stakeholder, support and commitment is necessary, either is in the form of policies or budget. To gain support and commitment of stakeholders, there must be a synergistic interaction between them, especially the school should continue to socialize and communication in order to obtain insight and understanding and a sense of belonging of the community will need for SBI in the region.

Building an internationally based school is not depend on how the school using sophisticated teaching learning media or using the English language along teaching learning process. It is not only about the surface that they have been wrongly understand about RSBI. The internationally based school teachers should be independent teacher who have an experience in developing various media and student worksheet for their student and so on.

Internationally based school is not possible to achieve independently. Cooperation with universities is indeed necessary, because the university provides a resource stock and access to foreign cooperation. SBI requires experts from universities and from abroad to supervise the school and learning practices.