{"id":74,"date":"2025-08-21T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.inspirasischools.org\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:22:18","slug":"tentang-kami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inspirasischools.org\/id\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentang Kami"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our Story<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Quest to Bring Affordable Excellence to Every Community<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Education lifts societies and transforms futures. It strengthens communities, builds talent, and gives every child a fair chance to succeed. Yet for too long, world-class schooling has been concentrated in capital cities, leaving communities in smaller and emerging cities and towns behind. Inspirasi Schools was established to change this.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Inspirasi Schools story began long before the brand existed.<\/span><\/p>

It began with a conviction shaped by the life of its Founder and Chairman, Jaspal Sidhu<\/a>. As the son of a doorman in Singapore, Jaspal understood from childhood what education means to working-class families: it is the one force that can change a life forever.<\/span><\/p>

While working across Indonesia as an engineer, he witnessed the stark education divide between capitals, big cities, and smaller districts. His travels beyond Indonesia revealed that this was not just an Indonesian issue. Across the world, emerging cities and towns faced the same struggles: limited access, uneven quality, and teachers with little exposure to international best practices.<\/span><\/p>

These realities shaped his life\u2019s purpose. <\/span>Affordable Excellence<\/b> became his mission.<\/span><\/p>

He established the first Singapore International School\u2014now Singapore Intercultural School<\/a> in 1996\u2014with the encouragement of the then members of the Singapore Government The foundation of the first SIS school was set by Singapore\u2019s premier school, Raffles Institution, the alma mater of Singapore\u2019s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and that of Jaspal Sidhu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In the years that followed, the SIS Group grew through strategic partnerships with the World Bank Group and other funders expanding across Indonesia, India, and Myanmar. In 2019, SIS received the prestigious World Bank Group award<\/a> for transformational impact in education.<\/span><\/p>

But one question continued to push Jaspal forward:<\/span>
<\/span>If a programme is truly good, shouldn\u2019t it work for every community\u2014not just capital cities?<\/b><\/p>

Inspirasi Schools was created to answer that question.<\/span><\/p>

To succeed in smaller and emerging cities, Jaspal knew he had to solve the challenge of teacher quality. The findings were unmistakable: great teachers are defined more by attitude than by just experience and skill. To reimagine teacher excellence, he partnered with Deloitte (Singapore) to create the EFFECTOR Model<\/a>\u2014an evidence-based framework built around eight attributes, including humour and open-mindedness, proven to strengthen student\u2013teacher relationships.<\/span><\/p>

After demonstrating the model\u2019s viability to potential strategic partners through the success of SIS Palembang and SIS Cilegon, the first Inspirasi school in Sidoarjo, East Java, was opened in partnership with the Family Office of the Japfa Group, founded by Hadojo Santosa. New schools followed swiftly. Its rapid growth earned recognition from Deloitte in 2024 for its impact.<\/span><\/p>

This momentum then carried Inspirasi Schools together with SIS onto the world stage at the ASEAN KL Summit in 2025, where their success story was shared with global and regional leaders. Today, Inspirasi Schools is attracting partners across Indonesia, India, and even Africa.<\/span><\/p>

As Jaspal often says:<\/span>
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My journey into education was personal. My father was a doorman (satpam) and my mother a homemaker in Singapore. They worked tirelessly to give us the education they never had.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Work took me to Indonesia, a nation of stunning beauty and rich culture, but also a place where the education system faced deep challenges. I saw that quality education was often a privilege of the few.<\/p>

That\u2019s why, in 1996, with encouragement from Singapore\u2019s leadership, I founded the Singapore Intercultural School (SIS)<\/a> in Indonesia, with the support of Singapore\u2019s premier school, Raffles Institution<\/a>. Through strategic partnerships with the World Bank Group and like-minded impact investors, SIS has grown to every major city in Indonesia and is now expanding beyond its borders to other Southeast Asian nations, India, and beyond.<\/p>

The results speak for themselves: our schools consistently outperform global averages, sending graduates to leading universities worldwide. Recognition from the World Bank (IFC) and the Financial Times<\/a> has affirmed what we have always believed\u2014our model works.<\/p>

In 2024, I launched Inspirasi school to extend our mission into emerging cities, delivering the same high standards, values, and innovations. Recognizing that the greatest challenge would be finding and developing the right educators, we partnered with Deloitte (Singapore) to create the EFFECTOR Model<\/a>. Drawing on research-proven talent development practices from beyond the education sector, this model equips teachers with key attributes that foster strong student connections\u2014connections that drive better learning outcomes. It has become the engine powering our expansion into new and underserved communities.<\/p>

For me, this is not a business. It is a promise\u2014to give every child, no matter where they are born, a real chance to succeed.<\/p>

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A value-based education is an integral part of any school program, and therefore our core values are reflected in the way we do things and interact. Our values foster a climate across all our schools providing everyone a sense of purpose and engagement as well as a safe, caring and supportive environment.<\/p>

Inspirasi Schools values are embodied in the acronym REACH, as our learners work to reach their full potential with a voice of conscience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Jaspal Sidhu is the Founder and Chairman of the SIS & Inspirasi Group of Schools\u2014one of Southeast Asia\u2019s most respected education networks, with a growing presence in Indonesia, India, Myanmar, and new markets across the region. As an engineer, Jaspal has spent more than three decades working across the Indonesian archipelago.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jaspal Sidhu, a Singaporean,\u00a0 holds an Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore and an MBA (with Distinction) from the University of Hull, UK. After a long career in the mining and construction sector in Indonesia, he redirected his life\u2019s mission toward expanding access to high-quality, affordable K\u201312 education for working families in both major cities and emerging towns.<\/span><\/p>

He is the Founder and Chairman of the SIS<\/a> & Inspirasi Group of Schools\u2014one of Southeast Asia\u2019s most respected education networks, with a growing presence in Indonesia, India, Myanmar, and new markets across the region. SIS schools serve middle-income families in larger cities, while Inspirasi Schools bring international-standard education to communities in smaller and emerging cities.<\/span><\/p>

The Group\u2019s growth has been powered by strategic partnerships with the World Bank Group and impact funds. The Group\u2019s work has been widely recognised by many international awards. Some are:<\/span><\/p>