http://www.economist.com/node/18929180 Indonesian schools 印尼學校 More cheating, or else! 『多多配合考試』，不然的話，走著瞧! Scandals in the classroom 教室裡的醜聞 Jul 7th 2011 | JAKARTA | from the print edition 雅加達報導 IT IS not exactly unusual for children to cheat at school. But Indonesians have learned recently that their teachers add a new twist to a familiar tale: ordering their own pupils to cheat, even if they do not want to. Not surprisingly, the revelation has led to an anxious debate about whether anyone can trust the grades of millions of young men and women who come onto the labour market each year in South-East Asia’s biggest economy. 孩童在學校裡作弊似乎不是特別少見，但印尼最近發現他們的老師幫這個耳熟能詳故事加了點劇情轉折：要求他們自己的學童作弊，甚至學童不想作也得配合。不意外的，醜聞爆發後，對於每年進入印尼這個全東南亞最大經濟體勞動市場中數以百萬計的年輕男女，其考試成績的可信度引起焦慮的討論。 The scandal came to light at the beginning of June when the mother of a 13-year-old boy in Surabaya, in eastern Java, told the local media that her son had been forced by his teachers to share his answers to a national exam with his classmates. The mother, Siami, first complained to the school but was ignored. So she took her story to a local radio station. 醜聞在六月初曝光，家住爪哇東部Surabaya(泗水)一位十三歲男童的母親Siami向當地媒體披露她的兒子被老師逼迫分享答案給參加國家考試的同班同學。男童母親Siami起先向學校抱怨但校方忽視此事，所以她向當地的廣播電台揭發此事。 Teachers telling pupils to cheat was bad enough, but the reaction to Siami’s whistle-blowing was worse. Instead of being hailed for her honesty, she found her house surrounded by a mob of neighbours and fellow-parents from the Gadel 2 elementary school, accusing her of “selfishness” and calling her a “disgrace to the school”. She and her family were forced to go and stay with relatives. 老師要學童作弊已經夠糟了，但是社會對Siami爆料行為的反應竟更惡劣。她不但沒有因為誠實而獲得表揚，她發現她家的房屋被鄰居與Gadel 2國小其他家長所組成的暴徒團團包圍，指責她自私並且害學校蒙羞。她和她的家人被逼著只好逃離並且借住在親戚家中。 Following a probe by the local education authorities the headmaster of the school and two teachers were sacked. The national education ministry does not deny that the teachers ordered the boy, Alifah Ahmad Maulana, to cheat, but they say his actions made no real difference to the school’s results. Despite this rather unconvincing attempt to reassure worried parents, the case merely opened the floodgates. 在當地教育主管機關查問後這所學校的校長與兩位教師被解雇了。印尼教育部不否認老師有逼迫這位男童Alifah Ahmad Maulana作弊，但教育部表示此作弊的行為並不會對學校的命運有任何實質的影響。儘管這不那麼令人信服的說法試圖安撫焦慮的家長們，這起案件只不過打開防洪閘門。 The past few weeks have seen more parents, pupils and others coming forward with similar stories, contradicting the government’s claim that Alifah’s case was a one-off. In the capital, Jakarta, a team has been set up to investigate allegations of systematic cheating at another state elementary school, SDN 06 Pesanggrahan, after complaints by another angry mother. At a special press conference at the Constitutional Court building on June 16th several people, including teachers, joined Siami in recounting their own tales of mass-cheating, and the bullying and intimidation of pupils and parents who want to come clean. 過去幾週有更多的家長與孩童以及其他人出面訴說類似的故事，駁斥政府宣稱Alifah的案件是個案的說法。在首都雅加達，由於一位憤怒母親的指控，現在已經成立專案小組要針對另一間國立小學SDN 06 Pesanggrahan的集體舞弊事件進行調查。六月十六日，一群包含幾名教師與Siami在內的人於憲法法院大樓召開一場特別記者會，會中細數他們各自遭遇的大規模作弊，以及對不願意做弊的孩童與家長所受到的霸凌與恐嚇情形。 Teachers defend themselves by saying that they are under enormous pressure to pass everyone on the national tests for the good of the school—and to get more state money. It is too early to say whether these revelations will prompt an overhaul of the way that Indonesia examines its children. Schools in Jakarta have been merrily reporting pass rates of 100% for the May exams, but fewer people will now believe them. Alifah, meanwhile, skipped his school’s graduation ceremony, but still hopes to go onto secondary school. His family has returned home—under police guard. 教師們辯稱，為了學校好，讓學校爭取更多的國家經費，他們身處要讓全體學童通過國家考試的巨大壓力之下。要說這件醜聞的爆發能否讓印尼立即對全國學童考試體制總檢討還言之過早。雅加達的學校還自顧自高興地對外宣布其五月考試的通過率高達百分之百，但現在已少有人相信這些學校了。同時間，Alifah並未參加他學校的畢業典禮，但他仍希望能繼續進入國中就讀。他的家人則已經回到自己的家(在警方的戒護下)。 --

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