ABSTRACT
This chapter adopts an “auto ethnography” method to unpack experience of a Korean ECE (Early Childhood Education) consultant who has been living in Indonesia and working with the local Indonesian government in the field of ECE for two years. She had been dispatched by KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) in order to help develop the ECE field in a regency of Indonesia working with around 200 kindergartens. Despite the fact there had been 72 Korean ECE specialists dispatched to 38 institutions all over Indonesia, it is hard to find a record of their voices about ECE in Indonesia. This chapter attempts to explore the meaning of ‘limitation’ in the field of ECE in Indonesia through of a common symbolic icon, which can be shown by the medium of ‘the desk’ according to the view of a foreign consultant’s own experience and narrative.
