The right of education for all in Indonesia has been mandated in some articles of the Indonesian constitution. Article 31 the 1945 Constitution states that ‘Every citizen is entitled to basic education and the government shall be obliged to finance such education’. Similarly, in article 34 of law 20 of 2003 on the National Education System, it is stated that ‘The central government and local governments shall guarantee the implementation of compulsory basic education at least to the level of basic education without charging any fees’. To fulfil this mandate, the Indonesian government emphasises the implementation of the compulsory basic education program for all children. This is also in line with the international agreement on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which has as a goal that all children by 2015, wherever, men and women, can complete their basic education.