Agus Wiyono

Abstract: The demands of skilled human resources increase in the era of Asia Economics Community. Therefore, government shall significantly have increased the number of skilled workers until 2019 in order to meet the needs in various sectors, especially education that provides life skill competence according to regional potential. The Ministry of Education and Culture will strengthen several aspects of vocational education, aming others; 1) strengthening institutional management through accelerated accreditation of school and certification, 2) improving curriculum and quality of learning through the arrangement of areas of expertise and enhancement of internships, 3) provision of competent vocational teachers, 4) increasing the quantity of vocational graduate workforce through the strengthening of graduate portfolio. According to the Minister, vocational education should be able to adapt the types of skills to market needs and be able to adapt to the employment and potential of region. This study aimed to determine factors affecting vocational education development to support regional potential were found by using Delphi method. Those factors found were distance (between resident and school), population, number of junior high school students, road network, public transportations, land price, disaster pronc, natural resource production, society participation, government commitment (policy-making), human resources of school managers.

Keywords: Vocational Education Development, Vocational Senior High School, Regional Potential, Delphi

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