How do you transform the fourth largest education system in the world? With more than 50 million students, 2.6 million teachers, and 250,000 schools spread across an archipelago of more than 900 inhabited islands, Indonesia’s educational landscape is vast as it is complex. But with innovation and commitment, Tanoto Foundation continues to help transform the landscape by leveraging on two resources: teachers and technology.<\/p>\n
Founded by Sukanto Tanoto<\/a> and his wife Tinah Bingei Tanoto, the Tanoto Foundation seeks to contribute to the evolution and improvement of education through its ongoing efforts to improve teacher quality, school leadership, teaching and learning environments, as well as early childhood intervention.<\/p>\n In December 2017, the Foundation collaborated with the Asia Philanthropy Circle (APC)<\/a> to launch a report that discussed how to improve Indonesia’s educational system<\/a>. The report sought to identify key challenges as well as successful interventions in the country. Among its many recommendations and insights, the report named the quality of teaching as well as issues of scalability as two challenges that need to be addressed if improvements were to take place. (Click here<\/a> to read the report)\u00a0<\/p>\n Apart from working with teachers, the Foundation is also working with other partners to scale its programmes. One such partnership is working with Ruangguru, a digital learning platform to give more people access to the teaching materials and expertise from the Foundation’s extensive knowledge base.<\/p>\n Ruangguru, which translates to “Teacher’s Room”, is a technology company in Indonesia that provides education-based services. With over 6 million users, the company founded in 2014 is committed to working with local governments and stakeholders such as the Tanoto Foundation to help educators, students, and even parents to run their activities more effectively and efficiently.<\/p>\n Ruangguru’s digital platform will be used to distribute the Foundation’s training modules, improve teachers’ capacities and competencies, as well as expand the programme audience and reach.<\/p>\n To date, over 8,000 educators in Indonesia have undergone teacher training via the Foundation’s face-to-face teacher training programme. With Ruangguru, any teacher with a smartphone can download the modules, use them in their classes, and share their stories with a large community of fellow educators.<\/p>\n Click the video below to learn more about Tanoto Foundation’s collaboration with Ruangguru. (English subtitles available)<\/p>\nLeveraging Technology<\/h4>\n