Early Childhood Education Standard: Towards Quality Early Childhood Education Services in Indonesia

This study aims to share the nature of quality early childhood education, based on Indonesian national standard. This study is critical with respect to the Indonesian government early childhood service expansion plan. It assumes that without strong commitment to quality, the expansion plan would not achieve its true mission. In this sense, the Indonesian government has launched national standard, namely the Minister of Education and Culture Regulation No. 137 of 2014 on Early Childhood Education Standard. This study moreover perceives that numerous factors might influence the achievement of the minimum standards as required. This study involved 30 ECE centers.