Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Academic prowess is apparently not enough at one vocational school in Magetan, East Java. Add to that irreproachable morals.

Jakarta – In an evaluation of the first year's performance of the National Education Ministry, a coalition of activists said it had failed to deal with key problems.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Are education councils effective? Activists on Monday said no.

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Activists have slammed the government for not allocating more funds to aid poor students while preparing to spend billions on its vehicle fleet and laptops.

Madura, East Java – Manpower Minister Muhaimin Iskandar is calling on the education sector to equip students with skills that will help them in the job market.

Bilhuda Haryanto, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights is planning to help teachers file corruption complaints with the antigraft body.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – In the eyes of many senior high-school students in Bandung, West Java, a famous New Order propaganda film documenting the Sept.

Jakarta – Tertiary education is becoming more elitist compared with the 1990s and 1990s, with the participation of those from less well off families dropping.

Jakarta – Religious radicalism in schools lives, despite efforts by the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to reverse the trend.

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – Transparency on the part of the city administration is key to improving education and teaching facilities, the chief of a learning cent

Jakarta – Zulfika Rochmah stood shyly in front of the crowd, trying to explain why school was so important to her.

Jakarta – Sex education has been in place in many schools across the country, but Education Minister Muhammad Nuh expressed on Thursday his objection to the extra curricular subject.

Ulma Haryanto – The chief of an open learning center for the poor and a city councilor have joined critics who say that international-standard schools not only widen the gap between the

Putri Prameshwari – The government's intentions may be good, but education experts have serious doubts about whether the government can pull off its plan to introduce 12 years of compul

East Timor's two official languages are Tetum and Portuguese, but at least sixteen languages are spoken there.

Markus Makur, Timika – More than 500 elementary school teachers are needed in Mimika, Papua province, to prevent remote areas of the regency from lagging behind in education, Mimika Edu

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – As the country celebrated National Education Day, which falls every May 2, critics are lamenting what they call an "authoritarian standardization" of educat

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Various stakeholders have started a round of finger pointing at teachers and students to say who's to blame for the rising number of high school students fail

Arientha Primanita – City councilors on Wednesday admonished the Jakarta administration for the drop in passing rates for the national exam this year, adding pressure to overhaul its ed

Putri Prameshwari & Emmy Fitri – Despite government claims that the lower number of students passing the national examinations this year was due to tighter supervision that made che

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Business will continue as usual for Indonesia's largest universities despite a recent annulment of a 2009 law on educational legal entities by the Cons

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – For the first time, the Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled an entire law.

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – The Constitutional Court, criticized last week for rejecting a judicial review of the Anti-Pornography Law, is back in favor, at least with univ

Anita Rachman – Angry that controversial national exams have been given the green light, a group of students and parents want to force compliance with a 2009 court ruling mandating impr

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Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A coalition of education activists from various NGOs criticizes President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as ignorant of public rejection concerning the contro

Jakarta – This government has been trying to live up to its constitutional mandate by allocating 20 percent of the state budget toward various education programs across the country this

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said it suspected potential losses from mismanagement of the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) throughout Indonesia between 2003-

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Amid the high spread of HIV and AIDS through sexual contact in Indonesia, youths are still finding it hard to discuss sexuality and safe sex with their paren

Anita Rachman – Lawmakers on Friday backed a Supreme Court decision urging the Ministry of National Education to improve school facilities and teachers' skills before conducting the nat

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection said here Monday that instances of violence against children committed by teachers had this year increased dramatically compared to

Dessy Sagita – Allowing students who fail national exams to retake the tests will not resolve the problem of rampant cheating, a noted education expert said on Monday.

Mimika – More than 22 percent of the population in Mimika regency, Papua, or about 40,000 people, are illiterate.

Anita Rachman – At least 590,000 contract teachers working in state schools across the nation will not receive any guarantee of being awarded status as permanent employees, even though

Jakarta – The poor teaching of the Indonesian language is to blame for the low literacy rates of students at the elementary level, according to a study.

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – In a bid to help prevent misappropriation in the use of the school operational aids (BOS) fund, the Surabaya municipal administration is to draft a bylaw on

Jakarta – Experts and practitioners have criticized the national education system, which they said was discriminatory and a throwback to the colonial era.

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – Around 3,000 teachers of private schools in Banyumas, Central Java, have once again complained about the regency administration not paying them an honorarium fo

Nurfika Osman – Now those oppressed at school can say they have a voice.

Classes at some schools in Papua's Mimika district have been at a standstill for the past few months because their teachers are stuck in Timika city.

On Friday, the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) reported 142 graft cases, which allegedly took place at various institutions within the national education sector between 2004 and 2008,

Anita Rachman – Corruption within the well-funded education system is a major factor in the failure of the Ministry of National Education to meet its policy goals, including reducing th

Peter Quiddington – Soon after East Timor voted for independence in 1999, Cuba marshalled its forces and sent hundreds of medical instructors to the tiny country, while preparing to rec

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – The government found itself in Constitutional Court on Thursday defending its education autonomy law against nine citizens who want it annulled

Sara Everingham, Dili – East Timor's President says Australia should spend more of its aid money helping educate East Timorese.

A junior high student in Bandung, West Java complains her religion teacher burned her and fellow students with blown-out matches to teach them about hell.

Anita Rachman – The government's proposed budget allocation for the Ministry of National Education is too small to significantly improve educational standards, activists said on Tuesday

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A quarter of all children who finish primary school in Riau do not go on to junior high, and may fall prey to exploitation and abuse, says an official.

Agus Maryono and Oyos Saroso H.N., Purwokerto, Bandarlampung – Parents of students enrolling at state-run senior high schools have protested over the school enrollment system, which the

Bandung – More than 200 students from 10 elementary schools in Bandung Barag regency, West Java, were poisoned Thursday after consuming free milk packaged with a plastic logo of the Pro