Ketika kotamu membuka banyak kesempatan untuk mencapai penghidupan, eksplorasi diri, komunitas, that's a blessing.
Tapi ketika semua atau mayoritas kesempatan itu terpusat di satu atau beberapa kota besar, we can say it's a curse for a nation.
Dalam statistik rank size rule, Jakarta itu cukup primate/dominan. Penduduk Jakarta itu 3,2x nya penduduk Surabaya. Angka ini sebenarnya cukup 'normal' karena Inggris, Malaysia, Korea Selatan itu angkanya hampir sama.
Masalahnya adalah bagaimana infrastruktur antara kota terbesar pertama dan kedua ini cukup jomplang. Infrastruktur mempengaruhi minat investor untuk membuka usaha, sekaligus membantu warga memperoleh kehidupan yang layak.
Akhirnya apa? Talent-talent dan lulusan-lulusan kampus terbaik kaya ITB, ITS, Unair mayoritas 'tersedot' ke Jakarta dan menciptakan brain drain di kota-kota tier 2 tier 3.
Setiap Idul Adha selalu teringat kelakar Gus Dur.
"Gus, mana yang benar. Yang disembelih Nabi Ibrahim itu Ismail atau Ishak?"
Di ajaran Islam, Ismail yang disembelih. Sementara ajaran Kristen, Ishak.
Kata Gus Dur, "Ndak perlu diributkan. Wong tidak ada yang jadi disembelih."
Indonesia once doubled teacher salaries.
The result of doing this was that teachers were happier about their income, less likely to have second jobs, and they reported less financial stress.
But student test scores were completely unaffected.
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Dear @Kemdikdasmen
Indonesia’s position on this chart is concerning because it sits near the bottom left quadrant, indicating weak performance in both mathematics and creative thinking relative to global peers. While lower income countries often lag in math scores due to resource constraints, Indonesia’s creative thinking score is also significantly below the OECD average of 33, suggesting the issue is not purely economic but structural within the education system.
What stands out is that several countries with comparable or even lower income levels, such as Jordan, Brazil, and Mexico, score meaningfully higher in creative thinking. This suggests that Indonesia’s challenge is not only funding, but the way education emphasizes memorization over problem solving, experimentation, and independent reasoning. Creative thinking is closely linked to future productivity growth, particularly in an economy transitioning toward higher value industries such as technology, advanced manufacturing, and services.
This has direct economic implications. Countries that perform well in both math and creative thinking, such as Singapore, Korea, and Estonia, tend to move up the value chain faster, attract higher quality foreign investment, and sustain stronger wage growth. By contrast, weak cognitive and creative skill formation limits the ability of the workforce to absorb advanced technologies, including AI, automation, and digital infrastructure.
In Indonesia’s case, this reinforces a broader structural pattern where capital intensive investments, such as mining and downstream processing, drive GDP growth without proportionate gains in labor productivity or wages. Without substantial improvements in education quality, particularly in analytical and creative skill development, the country risks remaining competitive primarily in resource extraction and low value added segments rather than becoming a high productivity, innovation driven economy.