This project aims at suggesting the direction of school leadership in relation to education management through conducting a case study of Indonesia. For a long time, Indonesia has focused on a centralistic education management, Thus, every school principal had limited authority in policy making and in running the school management functions being constrained by these particular guides and other government rules. In 2000, in implementing the Law number 2211999 on Regional Autonomy, Indonesia was able to advance the decentralization of the education management system. Every autonomous region (in this case district or kota/mayoral) has greater authority to run its education management functions in its own region, especially those at the primary and secondary levels of education. This has affected the need to reform education and school management in regard to making it more effective and more efficient by applying the principles of accountability and transparency. In the future, school management will apply a school-base management approach. Its application needs to be supported by the application of ICT

• Mohammad Ali(Education Faculty of Indonesia University)