The Role of the School Committee in Education Management of Vocational High School in Indonesia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue XI, November 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

The Role of the School Committee in Education Management of Vocational High School in Indonesia

Riyo Nur Buana, Riswanti Rini, Sowiyah

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Lampung, Indonesia

Abstract —The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the role of the school committee as consideration, support, control and liaison in the education management. The method used in this study is qualitative with a phenomenological design. The results obtained showed that as a giver considerations was embodied in approving policies and educational programs, as a support was embodied in active role in raising public funds in education, as a controller was embodied in advising unproper decision, as a liaison was embodied in cooperation with the community.

Keywords : Indonesia, school committee, education management.

I. INTRODUCTION

Sagala (2008: 191) stated the role of comunity in supporting the schools was something that can’t be avoided, but becoming a necessity, in order to make community become an organized system, then established school committee. In line with Khozin (2017) stated that it needs a place that can accommodate and distribute the thoughts and ideas of the community in improving the education quality, namely the school committee.
The school committee is an independent organization that place the community role and parents for quality enchancement and for school cooperation in the education management on the education unit, both of preschool education, elementary education and high school education. The establishment of a school committee is to build a community organization that has commitment, loyalty and is concerned in improving school quality.
The school committee is formed to strengthen the implementation of school based management and is expected for helping school management in every education unit. School based management is a management that allow the school to manage themselves.
School management is executed by considering the principle of public participation, transparency or oppenness and accountability, means in every education management, principals will cooperate with parents and school community in managing school education. Then the place for community is needed to implement that idea, the placed is built and implemented by community through school committee.

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