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About PINTAR

Key Beneficiaries

6-12 years old

Tanoto Foundation is dedicated to elevating the quality of basic education across Indonesia through its PINTAR program, focusing on significantly improving students’ literacy and numeracy skills. Launched in 2018 in response to concerning PISA scores that highlighted gaps in Indonesian students’ competencies, the program aims to help elevate the country’s international rankings by addressing the core elements of a thriving educational ecosystem.

Operating in numerous partner districts, PINTAR implements a comprehensive, three-pronged strategy: strengthening school leadership for more effective management, enhancing teacher quality through modern training and mentoring, and building government capacity through close collaboration to ensure the sustainable and widespread adoption of best practices.

Key Beneficiaries

6-12 years old

Our Focus

Improving school quality
Improving school quality
Enhancing teacher professional education
Enhancing teacher professional education
Strengthening education system and policy
Strengthening education system and policy

Our Impact

1,022,251

Students impacted

50,780

Student teachers impacted

54,835

Educators reached

99.2 %

Enrolment rates in primary schools (compared to 96.4% in 2003)

15 %

Increase in junior secondary school enrolment

1,571

Partner schools

The impact of the PINTAR program is demonstrated by significant, measurable gains in basic education.

An impact evaluation of the program highlights that over a three-year intervention, overall student performance increased by a remarkable 39%. This success is directly linked to a 27% increase in teacher quality and the cultivation of improved learning environments through stronger school management and parental involvement. The data confirms that students in schools with good leadership, active learning, and strong parental support achieve academic results up to 10 percentage points higher than students in schools without these factors. Notably, beyond these impressive metrics, the PINTAR program also played a key role in preventing learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring students in Tanoto Foundation’s partner schools were able to continue their studies without interruption.

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Community Voices

“Having to learn at home during the pandemic hasn’t stopped my daughter from learning effectively. The teachers are well prepared thanks to Tanoto Foundation’s PINTAR Program”

Muhammad

Parent of a student at MIN 1 Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi, Republic of Indonesia

“We are grateful for our partnership with Tanoto Foundation, which is grounded in the shared goal of improving the quality of education. This partnership has brought about many changes. All our teachers have been trained under the PINTAR Program. As a result, our Faculty of Education and TTI instructors are more confident in developing interactive classes for our participants. All these are for the benefit of our students, who may one day become teachers themselves”.

Prof. Dr. rer.nat Asrial, M.Si

Dean of Faculty of Education & Teacher Training of Jambi University, Republic of Indonesia

“The Kendal Pintar Berbagi Portal encourages knowledge sharing on online, offline, and hybrid learning during the pandemic. The platform facilitates the sharing of best practices among teachers and principals to raise the quality of learning outcomes. The teachers that have been trained as part of Tanoto Foundation’s PINTAR Program take turns publishing materials”

Wahyu Yusuf Ahmadi, S.STP., M.Si

Head of the Education & Culture Office of Kendal Regency, Central Java, Republic of Indonesia

“The PINTAR Program inspired me to implement changes in my school and also encourage other principals to similarly implement active learning and foster a strong reading culture”

Ninik Chaeroni

Principal of SDN 2 Patukangan Kendal, Central Java, Republic of Indonesia

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