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Anita Rachman, Fitri & SP/Natasia Christy Wahyuni – The government and the House of Representatives heralded a new era of greater access to university education with the passage on

Jakarta – Representatives of the University of Indonesia's student executive body (BEM UI) rallied at a train station near their campus in Depok, West Java, to protest the alleged misma

Surabaya's elementary and high school students will return to school this July. Their cell phones won't.

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia Corruption Watch has questioned the results of Indonesia's latest national exams, calling the nearly perfect pass rate suspicious.

Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh welcomed foreign universities to operate in Indonesia, as long as their executives were willing to collaborate with domestic higher

Ronna Nirmala – The recent uproar about a school textbook with a story about a married man's mistress may have ebbed, but the controversial story is far from the only questionable conte

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Calls have been aired in Medan, North Sumatra, by the Teacher Eye Drop Community (KAMG) for the government to cancel the National Examinations for good due to i

Michael Victor Sianipar – Millions of students across the country have entered what is arguably the most stressful week of their lives so far as national school exams began on Monday.

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Activists on Friday demanded that East Java education office chief Harun revoke his statement that pregnant students would be barred from participating in next wee

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Michael Victor Sianipar – As millions of students across Indonesia prepare to knuckle down for the national exams that begin later this month, the Education and Culture Ministry is unde

Zubaidah Nazeer – Two international organizations have warned Indonesia in separate reports that strong economic growth alone cannot guarantee more jobs, especially outside Java.

Ulma Haryanto – Violence remains a part of the education system in some part of the country, the nongovernmental group Plan Indonesia said over the weekend.

Rabby Pramudatama – A coalition of education watchdogs and university students is campaigning to reject a new law on higher education that is slated for endorsement by the House of Repr

Jakarta – Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar says he wants regional governments to stop making misleading comments about providing people with a so-called free education.

Natasia Christy Wahyuni – From charges of setting an irrelevant curriculum to corruption allegations, wide-scale cheating in the national exams and substandard facilities, Indonesia's n

Fitri, West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara – Sweat drips down the children's faces and soaks through their uniforms as they enter their classroom in Batu Mekar ward in West Lombok's Lingsar

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Mandate Party is so pessimistic the proposed new legislative election law will pass that it has proposed giving up and making minor revisions to

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students from Papua and West Papua studying in Makassar, South Sulawesi, have protested the central government's decision to create the Speci

East Timor's Ministry of Education says it will go ahead with a pilot program to teach young students in their own minority language, despite vocal opposition from some civil society gr

Jakarta – The lack of transparency and accountability in the distribution of the School Operational Aid (BOS) has cost the state billions of rupiah in wasteful spending, corruption watc

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen-year-old Sefritania Salsabilla cringes and looks away every time she sees people kissing and hugging on television.

Jakarta – Bandung Language Center chief Abdul Khalik announced on Wednesday that the writing culture among Indonesian youths was in a worse state than reading culture.

Sandra Parker – Father Domingos Gusmao is passionate about education and its role in the development of East Timor.

Manuel da Silva, Dili – Education Minister Joao Cancio Freitas has recognized that monthly salary payments are still being made to teachers who have died.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA) has urged the government to change its international standard school funding policy, which it says widens t

Bruce Gale – Indonesia ranks 61st out of 65 countries when it comes to 15-year-olds' proficiency in mathematics.

Jakarta – Indonesian teachers are protesting a ministerial decree that requires them to publish academic papers or scientific work to qualify for promotion and demand instead that promo

Jakarta – The Indonesian Federation of Teachers' Associations (FSGI) has accused the National Education Ministry of stalling on the disbursement of teachers' certification allowances as

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Perpetual corrupt practices in the educational system have stopped many children from getting a quality education even though the government raises the b

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – It was a bright sunny day when HM Soleh, a social studies teacher, inspected several classrooms to see if everything was OK.

Jakarta – The government will introduce a 12-year compulsory basic education program for all children next year, an official says.

Jakarta – University of Indonesia's Student Executive Body with the Faculty of Economics (BEM FE UI) threatens to hold strike and refuses to go for lecture in protest to unending contro

Ulma Haryanto – When Ade Pujiati started a learning center, all she wanted was to be able to provide free education for the poor.

Jakarta – A lack of post-literacy education and poor infrastructure are hampering the country's efforts to eradicate illiteracy, the National Education Ministry says.

Jakarta – Lawmaker Rieke Dyah Pitalok says the Indonesian government would have had to approve the controversial granting of a University of Indonesia honorary doctorate to Saudi Arabi

Camelia Pasandaran – At least 40 University of Indonesia professors are calling for the resignation of university president Gumilar Soemantri.

Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) has come under a storm of protests for awarding an honorary doctorate to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, a leader whose commitment to human rights

Nurfika Osman – The University of Indonesia rejected on Friday accusations that it had favored potential students who were willing to contribute more to its coffers and denied others en

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Jakarta – Indonesian youths scored poorly compared to their peers around the world in a reading test conducted by the Organization for Economic, Cooperation, and Development (OECD), who

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The delays schools have endured in receiving School Operational Assistance (BOS) funds that were prompted by changes in funding mechanisms have pushed schools

Jakarta – A study by the National Education Ministry shows many schools throughout the nation are still charging students with various obscure expenses.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – The huge portion of the state budget allocated to education has been instrumental in greatly improving the welfare of teachers, but loc

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The government said it would significantly increase state budget allocations for education as a result of the surge in total budget spending caused by the incre

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Last year, Riska seriously contemplated suicide.

Nurfika Osman – Last month, Retno Listyarti served as an exam monitor at a senior high school in North Jakarta. She said that what she observed was mind-boggling.

Cheating is rampant in our school system. Not a year goes by without incidents of wrongdoing during the national examinations making headlines.