Who’s to blame for Indonesia’s high dropout rate?

JAKARTA: The Unesco report on education published this week is yet more evidence of Indonesia's poor education system. According to the report, as many as 7% of Indonesia's 26 million children between the ages of seven and 12, or about 1,820,000 children, are forced to terminate their elementary school education before they finish their fifth year. 

This places the country at the top of the list of South-East Asian countries with high elementary school dropout rates.