Center for Civic Education Indonesia (CCE Indonesia) is non-profit organization which has been creating student centered, innovative civic education programs for nine years in Indonesia. The CCEI projects in Indonesia are funded through grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the United States Department of State.

The model that CCEI uses to disseminate its programs is simple and successful. With a full-time Jakarta-based staff, CCEI employs the services of three local coordinators in each province. Each coordinator team consists of a faculty member from the local teacher's college (Universitas Negeri or IKIP), a provincial education official with an interest in civic education, and a well-regarded middle school teacher. Coordinators for the projects in twelve provinces were trained by a combination of American and Indonesian trainers who had worked on a pilot project in Bandung. Since then, these provincial coordinators have gone on to train trainers from other provinces and thousands of teachers across the archipelago. Outside of funded support, many teachers' colleges have funded training of student teachers, and provincial authorities have funded mass trainings of teachers. Support has also come from Indonesia's two largest Islamic institutions, NU and Muhammadiyah, both of whom have conducted trainings in cooperation with CCE.

Selected teachers receive three days of intensive training, during which they complete a small-scale student project with other teacher trainees. Often skeptical about new classroom methodologies, these teachers invariably become its biggest supporters. The student-centered learning methodologies employed by the program create situations in which the teacher becomes the guide, and mentor, for students as they come to their own conclusions. Teachers report that while teaching Kami Bangsa Indonesia (KBI) their students develop a newfound respect for them. They also find that their students are capable of achieving things they never would have thought possible.

Students working on KBI engage in a process where they learn what public policy is, identify a public policy issue that impacts them, and then work step-by-step towards a proposed new policy. Students interview community leaders, meet and talk with legal and health professionals, visit government offices, and discuss the moral dimensions of policy with religious leaders. Students are equipped with tools to change things in their communities and they learn that the path to a solution is not always a direct one.

Examples of projects that Indonesian students have undertaken include:

Papua: Creation of an in-school HIV education program.

Yogyakarta: Lobbying the provincial government to come through on promises to assist street children.

Bali: Working with the community to create safe (off-street) areas for sport and play.

Manado: Warning students about the dangers of alcohol abuse.

Banten: Cooperating with other schools to curb student fighting.

Bali: Proposing the construction of a memorial for the victims of the Bali bombing.

East Java: Exploring ways to curb premanism and street violence.