This quote from the World Bank is about Indonesia, and seems an accurate description of the situation in Indonesia, but in fact we know very little about environmental values and awareness in Indonesia. There are almost no statistical data on perceptions of the environment or of environmental awareness in Indonesia. Given the many urgent environmental problems in Indonesia, this lacuna is quite serious. The research reported on in this paper is one of the outcomes of a large research project which aimed to see how education could help develop environmental awareness in Indonesia. 1 10 The structure of the Indonesian education system is described in (Jackson & Parker 2008).

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This study investigated student views on the relationship between their environmental attitudes and behaviours and their thoughts about barriers and motivators to environmentally responsible behaviours. The environmental attitudes and behaviours of students participating in a classroom-based environmental education program were measured using two Likert scales that had been tested for internal consistency and validity using the Rasch polytomous measurement model. Focus groups were held for students to comment on the results from the two questionnaires and provide suggestions with regards to the barriers and motivators influencing their behaviour. The findings of the study support previous research about the relationship between attitude and behaviour and the students' comments on the results provided insight that has not been widely reported elsewhere. Conclusions were drawn regarding the most significant barriers to specific environmental behaviours for high school students and how environmental education programs could be designed and delivered more effectively in secondary schools with the aim of engendering environmentally responsible behaviours in students.

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