Educational Acpects in Environmental Problem in Indonesia

Sustainability is an important topic in environmental studies. All country agree on sustainable development. In addition, special studies are need to look at educational factors in environmental studies. The Indonesian Government now have a program to build an environmental awareness in the school, namely Adiwiyata. In fact, the influence of the program is very low. Therefore, the objective of the research is to find and describe the perspective of educational aspect in the environmental problem in Indonesia. This study use qualitative research method (grounded research and phenomenology research). The study is use purposive sampling method. During two year of this research, it was found that the main environmental problem in Indonesia were knowledge and awareness. Education is no longer interpreted as formal process of knowledge transfer in existing educational institutional. Education have to change immediately into a cultural transformation, and needs to be expanded to reach various sectors.