THE STRUGGLE OF INDONESIAN STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF TIMSS AND PISA HAS NOT ENDED

This study provides reports that Indonesian students are still struggling from underdevelopment. TIMSS and PISA is a challenging vehicle in the 21st century. TIMSS and PISA as a very comprehensive evaluation material in monitoring and providing information on the state of education in the form of mathematics and science of a country. Indonesia still lags far behind other Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Based on the results mentioned in 2015, Indonesia is at number 44 of 49 countries. The slumped condition makes Indonesian students still struggle to be at a better level. The weaknesses, for examples, are the distribution of education for educators, access to places of education and limited learning facilities. Indonesia is an archipelago country that stretches with thousands of islands from Sabang to Merauke so that education is still not evenly distributed. Limitations do not make Indonesian students break up. The implication of this paper is to give an overview of the major Indonesia's achievements obstacles that is not able to achieve a better ranking in TIMSS and PISA