Abstract
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ensure that all girls and boys have access to early childhood development, care, and quality pre-primary education by 2030, enabling them to be prepared for primary education. The Indonesian government has implemented policies to attain these targets in line with these objectives. However, the national Gross and Net Enrolment Rate in Early Childhood Education, and School Readiness Rate have not met the expectations. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated early childhood student enrolment decline, posing additional challenges to pre-primary early childhood education participation. This study endeavors to analyse the factors influencing early childhood education participation and examine the efforts made to increase it. Adopting a mixed-method approach, the research was conducted in five districts/cities on the island of Java, which have regional policies on one-year pre-elementary early childhood education. The study involved early childhood education institutions, teachers, and parents as respondents. The findings revealed several factors affecting the level of participation, including inadequate socialization of local regulations regarding one-year pre-primary early childhood education, children attending supplementary courses, more than fifty per cent of parents with low income, suboptimal implementation of early childhood minimum educational standard assistance policy, and limited access to early childhood education in certain villages due to isolation and a lack of qualified teachers. Although early childhood education institutions have made serious efforts to encourage public enrolment, significant obstacles, and challenges remain that need to be addressed and resolved.
Author Information
Nur Listiawati, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Etty Sofyatiningrum, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Simon Sili Sabon, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Siswantari, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Yendri Wirda, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
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Conference: BCE2023
Stream: Educational policy
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To cite this article:
Listiawati N., Sofyatiningrum E., Sabon S., Siswantari ., & Wirda Y. (2023) Participation in Early Childhood Education Toward Global Targets of Sustainable Development ISSN: 2435-9467 – The Barcelona Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2023.71
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2023.71
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