Abstrak
Many challenges must be faced by thr GOl in developing the program, nowdays the Goverment of Indonesia (GOI) through Early Childhood Education(ECE) Departement has been enhancing early childhood education programs for 0 to 8 year old children. The major challenges are children access to early childhood education services and quality of early childhood education programs. Considering the challenges, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Indonesia's Ministry of National Education is currently implementing a small scale interactive audio instruction (IAI) pilot program targeting 5-6 year olds and their teachers in seven provinces. The program can simultaniously lead activities to kindergarten children and teachers as well as train the teachers, who don't have early childhood education background, and how to create high quality activities for children. Because of it's simple technology, the program can be applied in various Indonesia district condition. This paper explores the potential role a simple technology can play in assisting the govenment meet its early childhood education goals and discusses whether something as commonplace as a CD player or radio, when coupled with a proven education methodologhy, could present a cost effective way to achieving quality at scale.