Indonesia proclaimed its independence in World War 2. Universal education was conducted to develop the sense of nationality around the supreme value of Pancasila
Education has been developing rapid encouraged the government to build educational infrastructure all over the country, along with a private-sector contribution to establish educational institutions.
The “New Order”(1966–1998) purified such “deviant ideas” to generate “Pancasila-ist people for development”. Therefore, universal-education initiatives six-year basic education (1984) and nine-year basic education (1994) rapidly developed. Since the 1970s, the government has built tens of thousands of elementary schools in almost all villages. Considering education as human-capital investment, since the 1990sthe government has constantly improved access to, and the quality and role of, education in promoting economic development.