Summer Travel Grant 2018 Recipient
Dewi Setiani
Graduate Degree Fellow
MEd in Educational Foundations

I did an 8-week internship (May 28th – July 20th, 2018) at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Australia Embassy, Jakarta. I was assigned to the Governance and Human Development branch, specifically under the Basic Education unit of the Human Development section. My main duty was assisting the basic education team in implementing and supervising their program, which includes various tasks depending on the daily activities of the managers and officers. Several programs that DFAT does to improve education quality in Indonesia are INOVASI, The World Bank Trust Fund – IDTEMAN, and Technical Assistance for System Strengthening (TASS). The foremost area I specialized in was INOVASI or Innovation for Indonesian school children programs with several duties related to World Bank Trust Fund, and TASS.

Between June 4 – July 20, 2018 I conducted research in Singapore to record Indonesian domestic workers’ experience attending Indonesian school in Singapore. The participants were recruited with snowball sampling, then were invited to come to school at their convenient time to meet me. I visited the school on July 14-15 and interviewed 20 workers to hear about their motivation, feedback and other experience pursuing education at the school. The participants recruited were mostly enroll in middle school and high school certificate, with some attending university level courses. Overall the sample was representative and is currently being analyzed for my master plan B thesis project.

Thank you so much for your help and support.