The main stakeholders in the Indonesian education sector today gathered together at the opening ceremony of the Indonesian GESS 2018, where the event expressed optimism in seeing the glorious prospects of the country's education system in the future.
Ananto Kusuma Seta as Expert Staff in the Field of Innovation and Competitiveness, Ministry of Education and Culture; Syaefuloh Hidayat, Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Department High School Middle School; Matt Harris, International Education Consultant; and Nino Gruettke, CEO of Tarsus Indonesia attending this opening event.
Ananto appreciates this event which is seen as relevant to education reform programs in Indonesia, revitalization, and transformation.
"Education must answer new needs in industry and jobs. Education must be able to shape creativity, leadership, adaptability, and problem solving skills within the scope of our teachers and students, which they can get more in GESS Indonesia," he said, as quoted from official release received on Friday (9/27/18).
Syaefuloh also appreciates the initiative of GESS Indonesia which provides a strategic platform in raising the quality standards of education in Indonesia.
"This event offers a lot of new advances in the scope of education and technology that will support the progress of the teaching-learning process in Indonesia," Syaefuloh said.
Meanwhile, Matt Harris as International Education Consultant, who spoke with Rico Tan, Technology Director of Children's Day Schools in San Francisco, USA, highlighted what technology can be adopted in the teaching-learning process, how to use technology to support activities learning, and the key role of the teacher in controlling the use of technology and the formation of expertise and knowledge in their students.
He said, "The use of technology can succeed if it creates expertise and increases knowledge in students," explained Matt Haris.
Sri Shartini, a teacher from North Jakarta said that the use of technology is currently not optimally carried out in schools in Indonesia.
"I hope to get knowledge from the experts at the Indonesian GESS event and can be used in the teaching and learning process in the classroom so that it can help students get better."
Conducted at the Jakarta Convention Center, GESS Indonesia will take place until 28 September 2018 with more than 100 workshops and sessions held to share knowledge of the best practices most recently on the development of education, new teaching and learning techniques and improvement of leadership programs with professional teaching from throughout Indonesia and neighboring countries which are present at the largest educational event in Southeast Asia.
Syiaful Annuar Alias, Network Engineer & IT Manager, Vientiane International School, Laos, will talk about how to prepare the right infrastructure so that it can improve teaching productivity and help with work performance.
Big Data in Education by Chusmina SM, Lecturer from ASM BSI Jakarta will provide insight into how data can be used to enable schools and teachers to create learning experiences for students to achieve better learning performance.
Craig Hansen, Renowned Transformational Technologist who is part of the world's leading personal growth organization provides participants with an in-depth overview of how the world's leading companies form a high-performance culture that aims to strengthen schools in Indonesia to be able to compete globally.
