For this reason it would seem an important aim to work towards obtaining a solid and reliable assessment of SBI programme students’ current levels and performance at a national level, in comparison with non-SBI programme students. If such an assessment is to be carried out, it should ideally be benchmarked to international standards so that the Indonesian Ministry can see objectively how the SBI programme is performing. This could then serve as the basis for a possible future test of students’ level, say in three years from now, as a measure of development in Indonesian students’ level of English in the interim. The precise parameters of such an assessment would need to be established separately, but as a minimum it could consist of the following, as outlined for the case of Thailand: