Recently, the issue about National Examination is one of the discussion topics in the last debate of vice president that it causes agree and disagree in citizens. Since 1950, The National Examination has been used as an instrument to evaluate the education system, but student outcome is not showing enrichment of education quality in Indonesia. Because of that, we agree that the government should eliminate The National Examination.
For people who agree that the National Examination has to exist, they believe that it can evaluate and measure the quality of every level of education. Of course, every process of education need an instrument to evaluate the result of the education process but in fact, National Examination cannot measure the process only for several days. In addition, it also has many disadvantages. If the National Examination is still used in the Indonesian education system, it will cause the education system cannot develop well. For example, when students get pressure to focus on the National Examination, they cannot develop their aptitude and interest.
We believe the government should eliminate the National Examination because the cost is too expensive. According to the National Budget in 2018, the National Examination cost is more than 550 billion rupiahs. We think that the budget is better to use improving the quality of education in schools such as competency of teacher and infrastructure of schools because it is the most important to improve the quality of education. It is one of the reasons why we agree to abolish the National Examination.
The execution of National Examination is also lack of control like many frauds and the large area of Indonesia. The implementation of the National Examination, every school want to get the best score from their region, so there are several cases that they use the worse way. For example, they gave the key answer to their student. Besides that, the region of Indonesia is too large, so it is difficult to control the probabilities of fraud. The result is not representative of the quality of students. We said again that the National Examination should be eliminated, and it can be changed with another examination in a small region.
In conclusion, if we want to enrich the quality of education system in Indonesia, we should be eliminated, and it should be changed with another cheaper, efficient, and effective instrument. The sooner we change, the better we get.
Author: Khoirul, Fitri, Siraj (Kelas Pengayaan Bahasa)