Natasia Christy Wahyuni – A prominent physicist has decried the country's new school curriculum as being scant on science, in the latest criticism leveled against the Education Ministry

Asian universities have gained significant ground on their Western counterparts and could overtake them within two decades, but Indonesian universities are being left behind, according

Jakarta – The head of research and development at the Education and Culture Ministry, Khairil Anwar Notodiputro, has resigned from his position, a move which many view as a face-saving

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry says it will further reduce the number of schools slated to introduce its new curriculum this year.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – A coalition of educators and antigraft activists have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to sack his Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh

Camelia Pasandaran – The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) said that the blame for a "blasphemous" video of five students dancing and praying should be put on school

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The public in Tolitoli, Central Sulawesi, was shocked in March by a video of five female students from State Senior High School 2 who were seen mixing Islamic pr

Five high school students in Tolitoli, Central Sulawesi, who recorded themselves dancing to a Maroon 5 song and praying, have been expelled from school and face time in juvenile detenti

Jakarta – With massive delays and students in remote areas forced to take exams on photocopied materials, the credibility of this year's national examination results is being thrown int

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Amid concerns that another delay to the 2013 national examinations could occur in some areas, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the Indonesian Milit

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Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh is in the spotlight again, this time for the massive failure in distributing materials as scheduled for th

Jakarta – Representatives of the Indonesian Teachers Union Federation (FSGI) delivered a letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Palace on Friday, urging him to

Dessy Sagita – A coalition of parents, educators and activists have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to drop the new school curriculum, scheduled to roll out in July, as they be

Palu, Central Sulawesi – No pregnant students are allowed to sit for national examination even though they have been registered, a local education official said.

Dessy Sagita – A group of educators, experts and parents have delivered a petition with more than 1,500 signatures to the Education Ministry, rejecting Indonesia's new school curriculum

Jakarta – Although the new national curriculum will become effective in only four months, teachers and education experts say that they are still in the dark over details about the new g

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has long attempted to incorporate character building in the nation's education system, but teachers never thought that they would ever be as

Jakarta – Education Minister Mohammad Nuh failed to answer a National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) summons on Wednesday to clarify a controversial government draft regulati

Rizky Amelia – Give a Singaporean school student a three-tier test on any subject, and 95 times out of 100 they will be able to answer the intermediate and advanced questions, says Musl

According to the Ministry of Education unemployment amongst educated people, some of whom have qualified overseas, is on a par with the unemployment of recently graduated high school st

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – An expert urges the Yogyakarta administration to take necessary steps to stop "thesis writing" workshops and their degradation of the education system in

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Religious Affairs Ministry's office in Blitar, East Java, has finally recommended the closure of six Catholic schools for refusing to provide Islamic te

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Catholic Diocese of Surabaya, East Java, is saying that the local office of the Religious Affairs Ministry has misrepresented its position on the religi

According to the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education national schools are still lacking the basic facilities needed to facilitate teaching and learning.

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Zack Petersen – In Indonesia, the sex trade is a wink-and-nod industry – everyone acknowledges its existence, but refuses to talk about it openly.

SP/Fuska Sani Evani, Yogyakarta – Education authorities in Yogyakarta have rejected the Education Ministry's new elementary school curriculum for 2013, saying that it violates prevailin

Salim Osman – After weeks of review, Indonesia's Education Ministry eventually succumbed to societal pressure that English lessons be retained in elementary schools.

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Paris – The Minister of Education of Timor Leste, Benito dos Santos Fleitas, highlighted on Friday at the Unesco headquarters the cooperation of Cuba with his country in the fields of H

Bogor – In an attempt to reduce school clashes and develop character building among senior high students, the Jakarta Police are hosting a six-day disciplinary boot camp for 288 student

After weeks of speculation, the Education Ministry has announced that English language lessons will not be scrapped from the nation's elementary school curriculum after all.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police, in coordination with the Jakarta Education Agency, plan to send 3,000 disruptive high school students to boot camp as part of an effort to quell school vio

Jakarta – Changes to the national primary school curriculum currently under consideration will not improve education unless the government improves the quality and welfare of its teache

Jakarta – The government's plan to scrap natural and social sciences from the primary school curriculum has met with widespread condemnation from educators and education activists who s

Jakarta, Indonesia – The police say they will hold a boot camp for student troublemakers following brawls between rival high school students.

Serang, Banten – "We used to cram 45 to 50 students into each classroom here," says Komarudin, principal of Kasunyatun State Elementary School in the town of Serang.

Jakarta – Responding to demands that proper sex education be taught in schools in order to protect children from rape, Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh said that it was unnec

Natasia Christy & Pitan Daslani – As of the next academic year, the government will reinstate Pancasila courses in Indonesia's elementary and high schools in a desperate attempt to

Jakarta – A top education official has defended the government's plan to streamline the curriculum for primary education, saying it is customized to boost character building.

Following news that science and social studies would be largely scrubbed from the nation's elementary school curriculum, the government has decided to make young Indonesians' lessons ev

Former East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta has called for help for students wanting to study in Tasmania.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Monday that he would raise the idea of adding hours for religious lessons in schools with the education minister.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Comedian-turned-lawmaker Dedi Gumelar on Friday aired his support behind the government's move to erase science and social science from the curriculum of elem

Jakarta – Following two recent school brawls that have resulted in the deaths of two students, Religious Affairs minister Suryadharma Ali put the blame on a lack of religious discussion

Arlina Arshad – Indonesia's creaking university system is failing to keep pace with its booming economy, struggling to produce graduates equipped for modern working life in the Southeas

Jakarta – The vast majority of students in Indonesian schools say that they have been targeted by bullies, according to a survey released on Monday.

Senior high schools students in the capital should no longer have to pay state school fees as the Jakarta administration has decided to disburse funds for its 12-year compulsory educati

More than one-third of 24,000 junior high school graduates in Central Java's Banyumas are unable to afford their tuition fees, the Banyumas Education Agency reported.