sekolah menengah umum atas

Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ umum (“general”) +‎ atas (“upper”), from

• Calque of Dutch algemene middelbare school of algemene (“common, general”) +‎ middelbare (“secondary”) +‎ school.
• Compare to Chinese 普通高中.

sekolah menengah umum atas

1. (education, historical) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMU.

   Synonyms: (dated) sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas; (dated) sekolah menengah tinggi; sekolah menengah atas; (dated) sekolah menengah umum

The terms for general upper secondary education are sekolah menengah tinggi (1942-1946), sekolah menengah umum atas (1946-1950), sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (1963-1967), sekolah menengah umum (1994-2004), and sekolah menengah atas (1950-1961, 1968-1993, 2004-now).