Efficiency Analysis of Educational Fund Expenditure in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) and East Java Provinces

This study aims to measure the level of technical efficiency of education funding from direct expenditure allocation and school operational assistance fund in 2014-2016 in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province (DIY) and East Java Province that can be used for policy makers to evaluate the realization of the planned budget and program. Funds that are direct government spending on education are used such as for teacher salaries, education-related trainings, school building improvements and others, while school operational assistance fund is only given to poor students in economic so that students can go to school. This research uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with assumption of Variable Return to Scale (VRS). The inputs used are government direct expenditure funds for education and school operational assistance fund. The outputs used are the population literacy data and the net enrollment rate. The results of this study indicate that the province of DIY is able to maintain efficiency in 2014-2016 although government spending on education funding and school operational assistance fund is less than East Java. East Java gets inefficiency. This can be influenced by quality of human resources.