Why Global School? 

The year of 2003-very probably without most of us being mindful of it-is the beginning year in which AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Agreement) should be effectively enforced. If actually enforced, in not a very far future our country will be invaded by products and expertise from foreign ASEAN countries owing to the loosening of many kinds of regulation and tariffs before applied. It means that we will have to be prepared to directly compete with human resource-most likely of higher quality-from other ASEAN countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.

What will be even more relevant and pressing to our children is the challenge of APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) to be enforced in 2020. Exactly in this year in which our children will enter labor market, they will have to compete freely not only with human resources from Asian Countries, such as Japan, India, Pakistan, China, etc. but with ones from Australia, New Zealand and United States as well. We can clearly imagine that in that year onward business environment in which our children will live will be packed by workers, employees, and executives of those countries which are the members of this economic cooperation.

The fact shall force us to really prepare our children to be able to face this enormous challenge in form of them. The preparation should cover among others the development of their ability to communicate in English as the international language as well as other specific expertise that will provide them with the ability to compete. This is, in a nutshell, the reason behind the transformation of Lazuardi into global Islamic school, i.e. schools that promote life skills (broad based education) and use English as the second medium of instruction beside Indonesian language (bilingual).

Apart from the use of English as a second medium of instruction, among the elements that will be incorporated into the curriculum of the these schools are internationally acclaimed learning materials, promotion of intercultural understandings, and other internationally relevant courses and activities.