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can be chosen by the students. Therefore, the students have had their own concern major based on what they want. 50 Second, the students’ poorly educated parents are more likely to attend vocational school because they do not have enough money for entering their children to the tertiary education. 51 Third, the students are ready to work after they graduate by having a specialization major if they can not continue to tertiary education. Fourth, by entering vocational school, the education ministry can increase the size of the labor force that is ready to work. 52 Regarding the problem above, the government also constructs the curriculum for vocational school. Curriculum which is used in Indonesia today is KTSP curriculum Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan or school-based curriculum. KTSP curriculum is an operational curriculum which is arranged and implemented by schools. Meanwhile, there is a difference between KTSP curriculum with the previous curriculum. In KTSP curriculum, school has to be able in defining the content based standard which has been stated by BSNP Badan Satuan Nasional Pendidikan becoming a good curriculum; that is relevant to the situation, vision, and mission of the school. In addition, the implementation of the content based standard has an aim for students in achieving the passing standard competence. 53 The aim of KTSP curriculum for vocational schools is to develop intelligence, knowledge, character, well behavior, students’ capability for living independently, and preparation for higher education based on certain major that students have taken. Besides, it also supposes to students in having a good capability of each profession based on students’ major, to develop students’ skills and creativity, to acquire their own major and a basic knowledge and a technology, and to communicate effectively based on certain 50 David Newhouse and Daniel Suryadarma, The Value of Vocational Education High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia: The World Bank Human Development Network Social Protection and Labor Division, Policy Research Working Paper, 5035, 2009, p. 5. 51 Ibid., p. 10. 52 Ibid., p. 6. 53 Sudira,op.cit., p. 14.