Vol 3 No 1 (2009) Quality Assurance and Open and Distance Learning Implementation

Lilik Gani - Ministry of National Education, Indonesia

Abstract

The geographical condition of Indonesia is very wide and in the form of an archipelago. This condition has hampered the efforts of the government to maximize the education spread in the country, especially in terms of the people's equal access to the education. Seeing that some other countries have utilized the media of television to carry out their education services to their people,  Indonesia decides to develop an education television to cope with the problems.

Ministry of National Education (MONE) of the Republic of Indonesia through Pustekkom (Center of Information and Communication Technology for Education) -manages and broadcasts education programs through television. The efforts of Pustekkom in developing education broadcasting through television was initiated by the study carried out by the MONE in 1975. This study investigated the potential of satellite for education. By conducting some efforts, Pustekkom could  eventually establish an educational television called TV Edukasi  (TVE) which was launched by the Minister of National Education on October 12^th, 2004. 

Submitted to the HOU-SEAMOLEC International Conference on Scientific Research in Open Universities,  Halong-Cut Ba Island. Vietnam.November 4-6. 2007

The broadcast time of TVE during its trial was 4 (four) hours per day and starting  from May 2007, it has been 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The content of the broadcasting also increased. In 2007, the number of programs to be produced 5, 163 programs (for formal, informal and non-formal education as well as educational news/information). To broaden its coverage as well as its content, TVE cooperates with some local TVs, cable TVs as well as some international TVs. The viewers of TVE at the beginning (2004) were around 5,556,000 people and it became 17,120,000 people in 2005. In 2007, with the collaboration between Pustekkom with national TV (TVRI), some local TVs, and cable TVs, the number of TVE viewers is expected to significantly  increased by now. In other side the collaboration with some international TVs and some departments have enriched TVE programs. 

TVE  is supported by some working teams of 59 people as producers, directors, cameramen, lighting men, soundmen, VCR operators,  etc. In terms of facility, TVE has 2 studios in Jakarta, I  studio in Surabaya, some OB Production sets, MCR, transmission equipments, etc.

By applying the system of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in the future, TVE plans to become an interactive TV that can be accessed via internet. By attending interactive TVE programs,  the viewers can conduct interactive communication with the presenter, speaker, teacher, tutor, or lecturer.