Criteria
Coleman (2009:18-19) lists the criteria which a school is supposed to meet in order to become part of the SBI project. According to Professor Slamet and other stakeholders, however, the main problem with the implementation of the SBI scheme so far has been the fact that schools have been accepted onto it without fully meeting the criteria to get more schools into the scheme. In other words there has perhaps been an emphasis on quantity to date.Those at the Ministry responsible for the Junior Secondary level of the SBI project reported that at the moment there are 269 government Junior Secondary schools involved in the SBI project. When asked if they thought this number would increase they reported that it is felt that it would be better not to increase numbers significantly in the near future, even though many schools want to join, but instead to consolidate the current number.