From Our Founder

Education has long been recognized as the key to improving life – both for individuals, families and society, and we all seek to provide the best education that we can. In today’s rapidly changing world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know exactly what sort of education is needed to prepare our children for a world where many of the industries or jobs they will work in do not yet exist. This requires specific skills and attitudes that are not part of many contemporary school curriculums. John Dewey captured this thought in his quote “If we teach our children as we did yesterday, we rob them of the future.”

That future is an exciting one, which we face with great optimism for our youth, our nation and the world. While the globalization of the world economy, the rapid creation of new knowledge and new ways in which we communicate is redefining our lives it is also challenging how we define ourselves and impacting heavily on our environment. It is important that our young people are also educated with a strong sense of their own identity and a commitment to contributing to society and the world.

It is with great enthusiasm that the Tjiptamas Eka Bangsa Foundation responds to these challenges and seeks to provide an education that “embraces the future and embraces Asia” and combines educational best practice, with committed and caring educators to provide a rigorous, relevant, creative and truly engaging and empowering education.

As a young person who was educated in Indonesia, Singapore and the USA, and with a daily experience of the international business world, I have come to realize that many good school programs are successful in imparting knowledge but not a love of learning or learning how to learn. Equally important is confidence, enthusiasm and commitment and I am excited by the possibilities for developing these in a school with an international education program, a unique environment equipped with the best resources and information technology and with a strong sense of community.

The Sinarmas Group is committed to the development of our young people and the success of the Sinarmas World Academy (SWA) as a leading school. I am sure that as you find out more about our school, you will be equally excited about the educational opportunities that it presents and I look forward to meeting with you.

Indah Wijaya

(June 2008)