PENGEMBANGAN SEKOLAH BERTARAF INTERNASIONAL MELALUI ORGANISASI BELAJAR: KONSEP DAN IMPLEMENTASI

Abstract
Indonesian Government, putting into action the Educational System Law, is
starting its efforts this year to develop schools to reach international standard
schools (SBI). The Educational System Law (2003), specifically act number 20, states
that “The government and/or district develop at least one school in every level to
be promoted into an international standard school (SBI)”. That act arises many
questions in the school level concerning the international standards school (SBI),
such as what is SBI, what is the main goal, what is the requirement of schools to be
promoted as SBI, how can schools develop themselves to reach SBI, what is the
criterion of the success? Indeed, there are many ways for schools to develop
themselves into an international level. Every school may use a different way that
suitable to the school’s condition. This paper brings to mind the Learning
Organization (LO) as one of the generic promising ways to develop a school into an
international level. LO is basically an organization that learns and does
continuously improvement. LO comprises of five major components: (1) shared
vision, (2) system thinking, (3) personal mastery, (4) mental models, and (5) team
learning. Besides, there are five subsystems where those components should be
developed in LO: (1) learning, (2) knowledge, (3) technology, (4) people, dan (5)
organization.
Keywords: SBI, organisasi belajar, learning organization