Secondary school

Secondary school (SMP abbreviated, England: junior high school) is a basic education in Indonesia in formal education after primary school (or equivalent). The first secondary school to within 3 years, ranging from grade 7 to grade 9. In the academic year 1994/1995 to 2003/2004, this school was once called junior high school (junior high).
9th graders are required to follow the National Examination (formerly Ebtanas) that affect students' graduation. Junior high school graduates can continue their education to high school or vocational high school (or equivalent).
Junior high school students are generally aged 13-15 years. In Indonesia, every citizen aged 7-15 years are obliged to follow basic education, namely primary school (or equivalent) 6 years and junior high school (or equivalent) 3 years.
Junior high school run by the government or private. Since decentralization in 2001, the management of junior high schools in Indonesia that were previously under the Ministry of National Education, is now the responsibility of local district / city. While the Ministry of Education only act as regulators in the field of national education standards. Structurally, the first public secondary school is a technical implementation unit district education offices / cities.
In some countries, acts as a bridge between junior high school with high school. But the term could be used differently in some countries, sometimes inversely proportional to each other. For countries that use the Chinese language, especially in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, also in Italy (= Scuola media), SMPS connotes the same secondary school.
Therefore in some of the terms in government and educational institutions, Junior is another name for "junior high school," which is basically a school after primary school. Naming as a junior high started to appear around 1909, at the time of the establishment of schools Indianola Junior High School in Columbus, Ohio. [1] Sedangan naming the middle school concept was introduced in 1950 from Bay City, Michigan. [1]