1. EDUCATION
CURRICULUM
COMPARISON IN
FINLAND AND
INDONESIA
By: Arini Hasanah Setiati

2. Questions to be Asked
1.What is the purpose of curriculum?
2. What are the criteria of a good curriculum?
3.Why does Finnish curriculum become the
best one in the world?
4.What happened to Indonesian curriculum?
5.What should we do concerning with
education curriculum?

3. Curriculum
Teacher
Student
Personal
Developmen
t
Studies, Daily Life,
Career
Knowledge
Acquisition
UNESCO:
Developmen
t of Thinking
Skill

4. Good curriculum plays an important role in forging life-long learning
competencies, social attitudes and skills. The main principles associated
with good school curriculum:
• To enable students to use foundational
knowledge to develop new skills
Coherent & Sequential
• To guard students to gain in-depth
understanding & competency
Focus on Essential
Topic
• To meet the needs of students’ specific
interest
Include Core &
Specific Knowledge
• Criteria as students’ learning measurement &
high expectation to push students’ to achieve
set goals
Include Rigid Criteria
& High Expectation
• To create interactive learning environment
Adopt Inquiry-Based
Pedagogical Methods
& Hands-on Activities

5. Finnish Curriculum as the Best
Education Curriculum in the
World
 20 years ago, Finland was a poor
country which only depends on
agriculture.
 The country’s top ranking in the PISA’s
(Program for International Student
Assessment) hall of fame.

6. The Finnish model of schooling
offers a humanistic
approach to educating
children

7. Children are
accustomed to
reading since
their early age

8. Strict selection
of teacher

9. Teachers are
well-paid

10. Early
childhood
education
becomes the
emphasis of
education

11. Curriculum
applied
consistently

12. Minimized test

13. No students’
rank

14. Education
costs certified
by the state

15. Students
spend less
time in the
classroom

16. Teaching
methods,
curriculum &
course books
freely
determined by
teachers

17. Small class
with
competent
teachers

18. Less
homework to
do

19. Slow learners
get more
intensive
support

20. Indonesian Curriculum
Development
• Dutch education orientation
• Character and love the nation
Kurikulum Rencana
Pembelajaran (1947)-
”Leer Plan”
• Daily life content of subject
• One teacher for one subject
Kurikulum Rencana
Pelajaran Terurai (1952)
• Active, creative, productive, skillful &
problem solving learning concept
• Focus on “Pancawardhana” program
Kurikulum Rencana
Pendidikan (1964)
• Integrated & theoretical approaches
Kurikulum 1968 • Genuine human
• Effective & efficient curriculum
• Aims to build national development in
various fields
Kurikulum 1975

21. Cont.
• Contextual teaching &
learning
• “CBSA (Cara Belajar Siswa
Aktif)” teaching approach
Kurikulum
1984
• Competency based
curriculum/ “KBK”
• Focus on life skill
Kurikulum
1994
• “KTSP (Kurikulum Tingkat
Satuan Pendidikan)”
Kurikulum
2004
• Integrated thematic learning approach
• prepare students who have qualified
competence, meet the challenges of the age,
encourage creativity, improve math literacy,
familiarizing students with the data, to teach
moral values
Kurikulum
2013

22. What Should be Done?
 For Education & Culture Minister, education
agents as well as education stakeholders:
should focus on teacher’s quality, no money
oriented, evaluate the previous curriculum
before designing the new one, and emphasize
on humanism in curriculum issue to produce
students that can build in themselves discipline
and mental qualities that preempt cheating, or
fraudulently acquiring academic achievements.
They have also acquired integrated life skills
and become lifelong learners, creative thinkers
and motivated, capable individuals.