7 Family Resilience Index in Student: Case Study Vocational High School in Bekasi Adis Imam Munandar 1 , Aan Suryatman 2 adis.imam@ui.ac.id 1 , aan.suryatman@ui.ac.id 2 School of Strategic an Global Studies, Jl. Salemba Raya 4 Jakarta 1,2 Abstract. Student’s family conditions have an impact on teaching and learning activities. This study aims to design and measure the index of student ’s family resilience. The research employed quantitative research by surveying 200 vocational students in Bekasi city. Factor analysis was utilized to design the weighting index of student’s family resilience. The results of the study showed that the family resilience index is supported by the dimensions of legality and household integrity, physical resilience, economic survival, psychological resilience, and social-cultural resilience. The result of the family resilience index measurement in Bekasi city is equal to 23.51 can be categorized as fair and the resilience index of dropout students was 17.86 that can be categorized as low. Keywords: Family Resilience, Student, Vocational High School. 1 Introduction At a large and developed country, of course, education is one of the important pillars in improving the quality of human resources. In the year of 2017/2018, there were 76,297,500 people in school-age [1] or around 29.2% of the Indonesia’s total population. The efforts in improving the quality of national education that is currently and continuously carried out by the government, still have many obstacles to deal with in the field. The high number of dropout students is one of the priorities that the government constantly pay attention to. Dropping out of school is a global issue that occurs not only in developing countries like Indonesia, even in developed countries such as the United States and Europe [2]. Based on the data released by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2017, the number of students dropping out of school at the level of primary and secondary education in all regions of Indonesia reached 187,824 students [1]. The dropout data at vocational high schools in Bekasi City is 778 people, higher than the dropout rate on high school that is as many as 90 people [1]. This condition is consistent with previous research that technical or vocational schools tend to have more dropout students compared to public schools [3]. The problem of students dropping out of school is inseparable from the problem of family socioeconomic statuses [4][5][6][7][8][9]. The situation of families that have less economy or are categorized as poor households, single parents [10], students with a large number of families [3] or parents who have not graduated from school [8], have a risk of dropping out of school than students who come from families who do not have these risk factors. The situation of parents who are unable to cause not having enough funds to finance their children's school needs, such as tuition fees, transportation costs, and other costs or to purchase equipment and ICE 2019, September 28-30, Purwokerto, Indonesia Copyright © 2020 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.28-9-2019.2290988