The Indonesian curriculum changed when the Netherlands colonized Indonesia, called the Netherlands East Indies curriculum, and during the Japanese period, the curriculum was called kokum goku. The use of method in this study is a literature review with a meta-analysis of ten national journal review results based on the Indonesian and Netherlands education systems. The results showed that although the Netherlands had colonized Indonesia, the Indonesian education system could not equate with the Indonesian state. The Indonesian education system refers to curriculum and policies determined by the central government and monitored by local governments. In contrast, the curriculum and policies of the Netherlands education system are centralized in the central government and given authority to each school.

Indonesia

Education system

Netherland