TEACHERS' ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION ON INDONESIA TEACHING PROGRAM ( INDONESIA MENGAJAR) : ARE THEY HOLDS THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION? 1

Geographically, Indonesia has so many areas where teachers are not enough available. Teachers are not well distributed. On the other hand, we must provide the best education for our children. Indonesia Mengajar or (mengajar, in Bahasa Indonesia means teaching) is a program to provide the elementary school teachers for the region where lack of teachers. This program held by nongovernment organization. The best young graduates are recruited and trained to be able to teach. This paper is describing the academic qualification of the program participants. Especially, to identify what kind of major their holds are. Are they holds the Bachelor’s Degree in Education (in Indonesia called as Sarjana Pendidikan/S.Pd.)? The writer is using the quantitative approach with descriptive statistics to analyze numbers of participants major. Beside the quantitative approach, the writer is also using the qualitative approach with literature study to describe the phenomena. The program has been has four batches, and will be five in this year. In the fact, most of them are not graduated from education major. Batch 1, from the fifty one participants, there are no one who hold the Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Batch 2, there are only 2.78% of seventy two participants hold the Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Batch 3, there are 8.51% of forty seven participants hold the Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Batch 4, there are 11.11% of seventy one participants hold the Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Overall, since batch 1 until batch 4 there are only 6.22% of 241 participants hold the Bachelor’s Degree in Education.