The Education Measurement Specific Effect on Sustainable Development: An Experience of Indonesia

the sustainability development is a target to be achieved by any nations, it requires to have qualified human capital. While population`s level of education, especially those who work, are still relatively low. The failure in education indicates the failure in the education quality improvement, lack of school participation rate (SPR), net enrollment rate (NER) and the Gross Enrollment Rate (GER), as well as the average length of school. The purpose of this study was to what extent the achievement of Indonesia in sustainability development. For that the discussion of sustainability development would be reviewed from the contributions of several education indicators in Indonesia comparatively and several variables represented by the poverty alleviation or reduction. This comparative analysis was carried out in order to improve research model and to enlarge the knowledge within this field of research. The research methods were qualitative and quantitative approaches, multivariate regression analysis techniques, the condition of some education quality in Indonesia and some other variables in 2010. The results of this study indicated that there was a significant simultaneous influence of variables tested from the equation toward poverty reduction variable, specifically related to educational variables, partial effects were only shown by the education variables with the indicator of secondary school enrollment rates had effect, while the other educational indicators did not.