(This is a paper delivered at the Third International Symposium on Open and Distance Learning, Bali, November 1997, by me and Hirmana Wargahadibrata.)
Human resources development has been decided as one of the foci of the second long term development plan in Indonesia. Education, in broadest sense, is the major human resources development. Education should not be conceived as mainly being the responsibility of formalized institutions such as schools, colleges, universities etc. Education takes place also in home environment and the social environment of the learners. This is especially true in the globalization era, where information is readily available regardless of its values.
