Banyak baca di blog orang dan banyak media yang mengatakan bahwa sistem pendidikan di Indonesia itu salah. Penuh hapalan dan terlalu banyak materi. Sehingga banyak siswa yang potensial di bidang tertentu mesti tidak lulus. Eh, jangan-jangan alasan ini hanya digunakan sebagai kedok untuk menyembunyikan ketidak mampuan saja?
Saya berasal dari keluarga besar guru. Mulai dari kakek hingga ayah ibu, mayoritas adalah guru mulai dari TK hingga dosen perguruan tinggi. Dari diskusi kecil dengan ayah dan ibu, pertanyaan di atas muncul. Bagi saya mereka adalah pengajar-pengajar top di bidangnya dengan dedikasi yang tak terbantahkan. Pengalaman lebih dari 30 tahun mengajar tentunya telah membuat mereka hafal karakter anak didik, tentu saja yang lokasinya di desa.
Ketika kurikulum berbasis kompetensi (KBK) diperkenalkan, beliau-beliau ini malah bingung dalam mengimplementasikannya di depan kelas. Tidak cocok! Siswa tak akan mampu dengan model belajar seperti ini. Di Tulungagung yang notabene sebagian besar sekolah ada di pedesaan, hanya sekolah-sekolah favorit saja (misal: SMU 1 Boyolangu) yang bisa melakukannya.
Lalu apa hubungannya dengan sistem pendidikan? Sistem pendidikan mungkin memang salah, tetapi jangan menyalahkan sistem hanya karena tidak mampu mengikuti aturan sistem itu. Ibu saya selalu mengatakan, mendapat nilai di atas 4,5 tidaklah sulit asal bekerja keras dan belajar dengan rajin. Ingat, ini dikatakan oleh pengajar dengan 30 tahun pengalaman lho.. Inilah sistem pendidikan kita. Dan kita telah berada di dalamnya. Jadi? Kenapa neko-neko? Apakah dengan sistem pendidikan baru akan menyelesaikan persoalan? Daripada mikir sistem pendidikan, kenapa tidak menggunakan waktu tersisa untuk buka buku dan belajar materi? Ikuti aturan saya, jika tidak silakan keluar dari sini.
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For those who doesn’t have subscribed-broadband-internet-connection, there is several choices to connect to the internet. We have dial up via telephone which is called Telkomnet Instan. What if we don’t have fixed telephone account just like I do? If we have GSM signal that support GPRS, we still can connect to the internet via GPRS connection. Here, I will compare these two methods in the way they charge us.
As you know, telkomnet instan charges in per-hour calculation. They charge about Rp. 9000 per hour not including telephone tariff. In other hand, GPRS charges in data downloaded calculation. They will calculate how much we have to lost our money in how many bytes data we have been downloaded. GSM Operators such as Telkomsel charges Rp. 30 per KB (how expensive!), Indosat M3 charges Rp. 11 per KB. CDMA operators charges less expensive than GSM does, for example Telkom Flexi charges us only at Rp. 5 per KB. Fren after-paid-card much crazier than others, they charges only at Rp. 0,45 per KB.
Don’t compare these tariff with other countries. Internet connection is still an expensive thing in Indonesia. How can use it efficiently? If you want to download large files, don’t ever use GPRS connection! This is my experience: I almost never browse the internet web page using GPRS even just opening my mailboxes! It still too expensive for me. I only use this connection only for instant messenger using Yahoo! Messenger. In last 2 weeks I’ve spent my days in my home at Tulungagung, I’ve just talked with Lala (I prefer call her as Wice) and Rike (the one who get crazy with purple). For long time, say 3 hours, I just spent about 600 KB or approximately Rp. 8000. Comparing with Telkomnet Instan, you have to pay 3 * Rp. 9000 = Rp. 27.000 for 3 hours conversation with them (cute and beautifull girls).
If you want to open your mailboxes, or visit detik com, or even check your friends’ updates on friendster, plug out your DKU-Cable or USB-Cable which connects your laptop and mobile phone and change this with telephone cable. Yes, let’s surf with Telkomnet Instan. It’s not comparable in charge if you have downloaded 1 MB of files. If you are using IM3 GPRS Connection, you have to pay 1000 KB * Rp. 11 = 11.000. Using dial up connection which has max speed at 56 Kbps, you only needs approximately 10 minutes download times or Rp. 9000 / 6 = Rp. 1500. Make sense? 
They are still too expensive? Forget your laptop, take your flash disk and go to internet cafe! They only charge you about Rp. 2500 - Rp. 6000 per hour. Besides browsing, you can stare at the one who sit in the front of you, who is that? the beautifull one! hehehe…
Internet cafe is still too expensive? Do you want a free internet connection? Just wait for monday comes and go to your office! Who hates monday if you can have a free internet connection on your work desk? But, don’t forget our main duty from the boss, right? 
P.S: This writing I write first in my localhost blog, then I publish it in my friendster blog. This one is copied-and-pasted from my friendster blog under my permission 
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