The AEC Challenges and The Curriculum Change in Indonesia Guidance and Counseling Perspective
Education especialy in terms of the educational system affect the efforts to overcome the problem of unemployment. The Indonesian unemployment rate based on Human development Index reached its highest number which is up 7.24 million people. Research showed that the higher the education quality is, the better the quality of human resources will be. The problems of education in Indonesia lie on the educational system, curriculum, and not targeted graduates. Those become the main problems in resulting the increasing unemployment rate in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) soon will be implemented in Indonesia. Increasing the quality of the human resopurces becomes the main objective of government to deal with the ASEAN free trade. Curriculum is the document or the blue print of the education quality which must be possessed by the student and also becomes the reference is not an exuse for the less optimal implementation of the Indonesia education. The 2013 Curriculum in Indonesia is based on the IQF (KKNI) in which it become the basis of the educational rules that will be the ideal way to confront with the 2015 AEC. On the other side, the guidance and counseling field which based on the IQF (KKNI) has the major influence to increase and succeed the human resources that will be able to compete in the global market and to be front pillar of understanding and application in preparing the most qualified human resources.