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The aim of South Sulawesi provincial government to be included in the category of Indonesia’s top ten provinces in the Human Development Index would be easier to achieve when this effort receives full support from all sectors of the provincial and district governments. It is then very important for South Sulawesi provincial government to have an overall development plan that is based on inputs from and synchronized with plans of district governments
Head of South Sulawesi Bappeda (right) was in discussion with Secretary of Palopo District Education Office
To support the South Sulawesi provincial government integrate its education sector plan with those of the partner districts, DBE1 held a workshop on September 19, 2009. This event, held for the first time for South Sulawesi province was attended by members of renstra teams from the province as well as the nine-partner districts, representatives of the South Sulawesi Provincial Education Office, Education Council, and Bappeda. The workshop aimed to (1) limit replication of similar program budgeting and implementation in province’s and districts’ plan and (2) synergize planning and implementation of programs in education sector to increase effectiveness of national, provincial, and district budget spending.
Head of Human Resource Development Sub-Division of South Sulawesi Bappeda (right) and Provincial renstra team member lead the discussion session of the workshop
Response of the participants was positive. Head of Provincial Education Office mentioned in his statement that district plans were very helpful to achieve Provincial’s education sectors indicators. At the same time, the Head of Education Council welcome the event because, “This was the fist time that members of provincial and district renstra teams sat down together to review and work on their programs together.” He further stated that the remaining 14 districts should also be involved in similar process.
As next steps of this event, South Sulawesi Provincial Bappeda and Education Office will hold a workshop with similar agenda with the remaining fourteen districts. These institutions also aim to improve management system of information at provincial and district levels as well as to synchronize programs budgeting and planning of education sector. DBE1 took this opportunity to mention that it would assist non-partner districts to conduct analysis of education sector by using SIPPK (Sistem Informasi Perencanaan Pendidikan Kabupaten/Kota. )