Targeted Support For Secondary Education: An indonesian case study

Students drop out among the schools are a serious problem in Kendar’s municipality, Sulawesi Tenggara. The paper attempts to show that there are many ways done by the central and local governments in the prevention of school dropouts, among of them is to prepare the good program that’s oriented to education, namely BOS Program. The paper continues to explain the function of BOS program. This program is provided for schools at the primary and junior high school levels and is intended to reduce the burden on the community, especially the poor, of the cost of education. The paper began to take into account of several important factors in order to retain the poor student in the school. This paper tries to connect the poor student and parents’ satisfaction against the use of BOS funds in junior high school level and this paper ends on the level of policy implementation that can be used as support in the success of these program. This study found, that there are many misuse of authority in operating BOS funds, even at the local government or the school level. This paper analyzes that helping the poor children by providing BOS funds is not successful if there is not serious responsibility from many stakeholder, especially for school principle at the school level.