Indonesia

Education Ministry promises no more delays in teacher allowances

Teachers who are certified qualify for a professional allowance equal to their salary, effectively doubling their pay.

After years of complaints by teachers about long delays in the disbursement of their professional allowances the National Education Ministry is finally going to do something about it, promising to pay the allowances at the same time as monthly salaries.

The government introduced the teacher certification program in 2006 as part of a long-term effort to standardize and improve the quality of the country�s educators.

The program, which will run until 2015, aims to certify 2.5 million state and private schoolteachers.

Sulistyo, the head of the Indonesian Teachers Union, said delays in the payment of allowances had existed since the certification program began three years ago. He said teachers often had to wait several months to receive their allowances.

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