Kompas, page 11, Saturday 13 December
Viewed from its history, since 1945, Indonesia has experienced 11 education curriculum changes. This process of change is normal following development of the times. However, the change this time, i.e. from Curriculum 2013 reverting to Curriculum 2006 is deemed surprising because it is done in the middle of the school year.
The decision to postpone the curriculum to be effective this January 2015 created panic, especially teachers and schools, because it is done in the middle of the semester. The problems in Curriculum 2013 were addressed in an education discussion of Kompas daily titled “Placing the Issue in Perspective and Seeking a Solution to Curriculum 2013” or “Mendudukkan Persoalan dan Mencari Solusi Kurikulum 2013”, Friday (12/12).
Director General of Basic Education Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemdikbud) Hamid Muhammad who was present as a speaker said, the decision to postpone Curriculum 2013 (K-13) implementation and to revert to Curriculum 2006 was a very heavy decision and has remarkable complications on the ground. The said complications are among others on the textbooks and teacher arrangements.
In the discussion, the speakers agreed that the process of curriculum revision was normal to be done by a nation. However, they also agreed the process of change this time was sudden and in the middle of (the school year). Education practitioner Doni Koesoema, who was also a speaker, proposed that the K-13 be terminated in all schools without exception. K-13 evaluation as we go would not be possible to obtain optimum results because there are still 6,221 schools running K-13.
Meanwhile, teacher trainer Itje Chodijah, who was also present during the discussion, said, since there is already an official decision from Kemdikbud regarding K-13 and Curriculum 2006, what is important to do now is to provide understanding to the public. The understanding that the process currently occurring is not only K-13 revision, yet instead perfecting the national education curriculum.
At the end of the discussion,Hamid reaffirmed that only 6,221 schools are implementing K-13. These schools are strictly escorted in order to be examples for other schools. If there are regions that insist on continuing to (use K-13), he left it up to the regency/city.

Curriculum Revision is Common