Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Anies Baswedan, the minister for primary and secondary education, appears to be out to silence his critics by seeking to change two pieces of controve

Estevao Nuno – The Ministry of Education will permit the Catholic Church to open a privately managed university in Timor-Leste, provided it fulfills a list of criteria set by the govern

Jakarta – A flag-raising ceremony is usually the norm to commemorate the historical moment when a group of Indonesian youths proclaimed three ideals – one motherland, one nation and one

Jakarta – The recent case of a group bullying an elementary school student in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, has sparked widespread public concern, with activists attributing the incident –

Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – A seemingly simple mathematical problem has multiplied in proportion over the past few days, becoming a topic of hot debate in mass and social media alik

Martinha Gusmao – Teachers are being told not to put their students' health at risk by smoking in classrooms.

Martinha Gusmao – Member of Parliament Eladio Faculto has called on the Timor-Leste government to close down the Dili International School (DIS) as it does not follow the curriculum set

Jakarta – The University of Indonesia (UI) is still the country's best institution of higher education, according to results of a world university survey released on Tuesday, but overal

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Natasia Christy & Herman, Jakarta – A week after Indonesia Corruption Watch demanded the termination of the 2013 Curriculum, the Federation of Indonesian Teachers Associations (FSGI

Martinha Gusmao – The Schools Meals Program has not run for four months as the budget for the program has not been transferred.

Paulina Quintao – Poor family education is contributing to high rates of infanticide in Timor-Leste, and in particular in Dili, according to Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equa

Jakarta – Joko Widodo's central plan for developing education in Indonesia lies in his conception of a "mental revolution."

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Jakarta – A group of educators has warned that failings in the country's education system and curriculum played a role in encouraging violence and intolerance in society, and that unles

Jakarta – The education system needs a drastic shake-up following the transition of government, according to experts in the field.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Proponents of religious schooling are clamoring for a larger slice of the public education budget, even as government struggles to fund secular state sc

Ezequiel Freitas – National Parliament members have criticized the recruitment of volunteer teachers to permanent positions, a process they say is unfair and nepotistic.

Ezequiel Freitas – Member of National Parliament (MP) Paulino Monteiro said the use of Indonesian to teach, which is particularly prevalent in private higher education institutions, dis

Jakarta – Bali is to strengthen its Planned Generation (GenRe) project by establishing teen- and student-counseling information centers (PIK-R/M) to spread information on reproductive h

Jayapura – Even though mostly regions in Papua have lack of teachers, the Head of Education and Teaching Department of Paniai regency, Drs.

Benjamin Soloway & Josua Gantan, Lebak, Banten – As we make our way from Jakarta to the heart of Banten province – which stretches from Tangerang, the capital's sprawling western su

Sentani – As many as 296 soldiers based in Papua have received teaching certificates, allowing them to teach in remote areas.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Regina Tantri Tionaomi is among the many Jakarta teenagers who have never been taught about sexual and reproductive health.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected a judicial review submitted by six students from Padang-based Andalas University to challenge the 2012 higher education law that legalize

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration has backed the Education Ministry's controversial new curriculum that scraps English classes, computer studies and physical education a

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Research commissioned by the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) since the National Education System Law came in to effect in 2003 revealed an increasin

Kennial Caroline Laia & Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Indonesia ranks second from the bottom in an international education survey conducted to assess students' skill in mathematics, sci

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Education experts and campaigners have welcomed the Education and Culture Ministry's decision to scrap the national examination for elementary school stud

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has stressed the importance of providing sex education to young children, following the emergence of a sex video involving two junior high school students.

Thomas Ora, Dili – Like many of his Timor Leste colleagues, Fernando da Costa, an elementary school teacher in the mountainous district of Aileu, has struggled to learn Portuguese.

Wei Du, Baucau – Timor Leste is rethinking how it educates its younger generation. At the centre of the issue is what language medium to use in schools.

Paulina Quintao – The Commissioner of the Public Service Disciplinary Process Alexandre Corte Real said the majority of public servants who committed irregularities came from the Minist

Elizabeth Pisani – I'm sitting at a warung in Central Sulawesi, waiting to pay for my coffee. Two coffees, in fact, and two cakes.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry decided to retain the national examinations, defying criticism from education experts who said the educational policy w

Ahmad Romadoni, Jakarta – The momentum of Car Free Day along the length of Jl.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Parents in Aceh were demanding answers from education officials on Wednesday after it emerged that children as young as 11 were told to fill in a survey that

Dessy Sagita – Despite the government's commitment to allocate one-fifth of the state budget to the education sector, there is still a long way to go before all children receiving a qua

The number of cases involving teachers resorting to violence when punishing errant students indicates a lack of awareness of the impact of such action on students' psyche, and is ground

Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono has ordered Education Minister Mohammad Nuh to strongly reject and stop South Sumatra's Prabumulih education board head from car

Camelia Pasandaran – A plan by the Education Agency of Prabumulih, South Sumatra, to include virginity tests as part of its high school admission requirements has drawn the ire of legis

SP/Nathasia Christy Wahyuni – The new school curriculum has many abstract and irrelevant benchmarks that students cannot possibly be tested against, a teachers' body has said as it urge

Rendi Witular, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry will soon issue a regulation that will eliminate value-added tax (VAT) and income tax for the importation of non-fiction books, a move that

Program Coordinator of the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) Matias dos Santos said many Timorese students are studying illegally in Indonesia.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – More than half of children under the age of six have no access to early childhood education, the Education and Culture Ministry says.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The 2013 national curriculum may end up being changed sooner than expected with two major political parties, deemed frontrunners in the 2014 elections, sa

Shesar Andriawan & Natasia Christy – Indonesia's controversial new school curriculum got off to a rocky start on Monday as educators and experts continued to debate the merits of th

Dessy Aswim – Indonesia's school children are paying the price for entrenched official corruption, with inadequate schools and teaching hindering learning, activists say.

Bobby Anderson – Under Papua's 2001 Special Autonomy Law, the majority of Papua's natural resource wealth is returned to the province.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry launched the 12-year compulsory education program on Tuesday, officially named the Universal Secondary Education (Pendi