Anindito Aditomo

Spring course, A811C7: Navigating the Complexities of Curriculum Reform in a Large, Decentralized System: From Policy to Practice and Back.

Registration available soon.

Dr. Anindito Aditomo is a Fulbright scholar, Humboldt scholar, and associate professor at the University of Surabaya, Indonesia. He has extensive experience as a policy maker, from directing the University of Surabaya’s Center for Curriculum and Instruction (2013-2017) to heading the Ministry of Education’s Agency for Education Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment (2021-2025). Through various roles, Anindito was instrumental in designing system-wide reforms that have impacted many students and teachers. He was a key architect of a new national curriculum that has been implemented in more than 380 thousand schools and contributed to doubling the number of students meeting minimum literacy standards since 2021. He also spearheaded a fundamental change in how the education system is evaluated – successfully advocating for monitoring students’ reading and math literacies, and using those as key indicators of Indonesia’s long-term human development plan 2025-2045.