On January 2-6, 2017, a group of post graduate students from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania University, visited YLAI on a study tour. This visit from the No 1 Business School in the world, according to Business Insider and Quacquarelli Symonds, aimed at helping to develop the best monitoring and support systems for YLAI pilot schools. Wharton team of seven people were divided into two groups; library development and teacher training groups. Both teams learnt about the local context and proposed some initiatives for YLAI to implement after doing a careful research of the local educational setting.
The library team developed some materials that YLAI could use in its program through observations and interviews with several YLAI pilot schools. The interviews and observations were intended to look at and examine several things such as key issues in library development programs in terms of its management, support and sustainability aligned with the local context and culture.
The teacher training team conducted a series of activities that assisted YLAI in developing training mechanisms for teachers who ran YLAI programs, and suggestions to develop IT platforms that could be accessed by all teachers across Indonesia. It is therefore hoped that such initiatives would help make YLAI’s programs sustainable, and bring even more benefit to provinces across Indonesia.