Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Hundreds of children affected by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, risk dropping out of school because their parents can no longer afford to pay for their

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Islamic schools need to include more scientific and research studies, rather than trying to revive the glory of past Islamic civilization by focusing solely on

Jakarta – Some 10,000 students and teachers paraded around the National Monument here Sunday, campaigning for a better national education system.

Dili – The advantages of Cuban basic reading and writing teaching method Yes, I Can, which combines the student's basic learning primer with video classes, outstood here Saturday on occ

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While welcoming the government's newly launched book regulation for schoolchildren, critics say the policy lacks clarity, sets wrong targets and failed to invol

Jakarta/Medan/Semarang/Pekanbaru/Kupang – The three-day national final high school examination ended Thursday with reports of the same old problems: cheating and exam paper leaks.

Agnes Winarti, Jakarta – Literature advocates and book publishers demand the government give more support to the book publishing industry to serve readers with more affordable quality r

Ruslan Sangadji, Tojo Una-Una – Members of the isolated Tau Taa tribe, in Tojo Una-Una regency in Central Sulawesi, say discrimination and apathy has left their children scrawling their

Jakarta – The government on Saturday launched the National Movement for Good Conduct, a program that aims to promote morality among school students.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Despite a compulsory basic education program launched by the government in 1994, enrollment figures remain disappointing in many regions.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Experts, activists and teachers said they would consider filing a request for the Constitutional Court to revoke its recent decision ordering the inclusion of

Purwokerto, Central Java – Teachers from hundreds of junior high schools in Banyumas protested on Monday to the regency's alms charity agency over the "compulsory" collection of alms fr

Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – If knowledge is power, then Indonesia has a long way to go. This is not to cast aspersions on the country, but to highlight an opportunity for investors.

Adpara, Jakarta – School expenses in Jakarta could double from last year due to budget cuts for school operational funds, an official said.

Adpara, Manado – Students of Sam Ratulangi University in Manado, North Sulawesi, recently became involved in a physical clash with security personnel during a protest against the govern

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has come under fire for a ruling that, critics say, encourages the government not to raise the education budget to levels mandated by t

Jakarta – Hundreds of substitute teachers in Jakarta staged a rally at the City Council on Monday to complain about the amount of time it was taking the administration to make them civi

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) says corruption in the education sector is still rampant and that the government must take action to stop the practices.

Agustina Wayansari, Jakarta – The National Family Planning Board (PKBI) is taking a creative new approach to sex education and counseling that involves talking face-to-face with teenage

Agustina Wayansari, Jakarta – "My boyfriend asked me to do squats to get the sperm out so that I wouldn't fall pregnant," said a university student in a recent survey on sex, sexuality

Jakarta – The House of Representatives is deliberating a bill the government says will improve the quality of the country's universities, but which the schools fear will commercialize e

Havana – Timor Leste's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, thanked Cuba for its cooperation in the field education through the "Yes, I can" teaching method which has been widely implemented

Jakarta – A Dutch-based non-profit organization has offered the Indonesian government assistance in promoting safe sex among youth, to curb the spread of the HIV virus and sexually tran

Jakarta – Corruption watchdogs and concerned citizens on Wednesday complained of weak policy, poor management and financial irregularities in the education sector.

Pramono, Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has requested that the government abolish the national test.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – There have been more protests over the government's decision to continue holding national examinations for elementary, junior high and senior high school studen

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Around 5,000 schoolteachers threatened to strike unless their allowance is increased significantly.

Alfian, Jakarta – The government has been ignoring the country's education problems in preference for making the sector more commercial, said Marcellinus Marcellino, vice rector of the

Jakarta – Mahmud has been a contract teacher for 28 years, earning only Rp 500,000 a month.

Yogyakarta – A number of private universities in Yogyakarta have been forced to merge and scrap study programs due to limited enrollments.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – More than 1.2 million children in North Sumatra are forced to drop out of school every year for financial reasons.

Bandung – Thousands of students in Bandung city, from elementary to senior high school levels, are at risk of being dropped out of school because they cannot afford to buy textbooks, an

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Instead of being praised for uncovering cheating at a number of schools during the 2007 national exams, 13 North Sumatra teachers have been discharged and 14 ot

Sugita Katyal and Adhityani Arga, Jakarta – When Pakistan's army stormed an Islamabad mosque housing a radical Islamic school last month, it raised questions in Indonesia: Was the South

Jakarta – A recent survey by a coalition of non-governmental organizations active in the education sector found schools are still illegally making parents pay to register their children

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Legislators said Thursday the government should be able to allocate more money for the education sector, while thousands of teachers from Banten and West J

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Jakarta – To address the core problems facing the educational system, the government must look beyond the national examination and address the root causes of the system's failures, an e

Jakarta – HIV/AIDS activists have called on secondary schools to focus more on sex education to help prevent the spread of the virus.

Sleman, Yogyakarta – Local authorities have seized thousands of history school textbooks over reported factual inaccuracies concerning the Indonesian Communist Party.

Melly Febrida, Jakarta – The distribution of 2004 curriculum history books for junior and senior high schools have been banned and the Attorney General hopes that the recall of these bo

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled for the third time in favor of the educational sector by insisting 20 percent of the total national budget should be allocated to the

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Khairul Saleh, Padang/Palembang – At least 78 students in Padang, West Sumatra, walked out of the national exams in a protest against cheating practices.

Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights called Wednesday for the government to provide free elementary education to the children of poor families.

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Imron Rosyid, Solo – The Indonesian History Community (KSI) has condemned the decision by the Attorney General to prohibit 13 historical book titles by 10 publishers from being used as

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government-backed Indonesian Commission for the Protection of Children (KPAI) has opposed the imposition of corporal punishment on children in schools,

Ardimas Sasdi, Jakarta – The plan of the government to "privatize", an euphemism for running higher state institutions under a private model, reminds the writer of a touching short mess

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – A 12-meter-square single-classroom kindergarten in a kampong in Pangkalan Jati, South Jakarta, offers nothing fancy.