A National Plus school in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 refers to a school that offers education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 beyond the minimum requirements of the national Indonesian accreditation

Accreditation

Accreditation is a process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented.Organizations that issue credentials or certify third parties against official standards are themselves formally accredited by accreditation bodies ; hence they are sometimes known as "accredited...

 authorities. It is an unofficial term, undefined by law, regulation or any official body and therefore open to interpretation in practice . Typically national plus schools offer some subjects taught in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 rather than in Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

, may provide some native English speakers on staff or may offer international curriculum such as from Cambridge International Examinations

Cambridge International Examinations

University of Cambridge International Examinations is a provider of international qualifications for students between the ages of 14 and 19, offering examinations and qualifications in more than 150 countries. It is an Examination Board under Cambridge Assessment, founded in 1858 as a department...

 (CIE) or the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO).

The Association of National Plus Schools - Bertaraf Internasional (ANPS-BI) is an independent association that offers support and accreditation for such schools. The Indonesian department of education also has a related accreditation category for those schools which offer an international standard of education. The accreditation requirements of ANPS-BI and the Indonesian department of education are different and most schools who label themselves as national plus schools are not accredited by either body.

National Plus schools can typically be differentiated from international school

International school

An International school is loosely defined as a school that promotes international education, in an international environment, either by adopting an international curriculum such as that of the International Baccalaureate or Cambridge International Examinations, or by following a national...

s by their core market. International schools tend to primarily exist to serve the needs of expatriate

Expatriate

An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing...

students and national plus schools for Indonesian students; however there is significant overlap on both sides.