The Regent of Bintuni Bay Regency in West Papua Province, Petrus Kasihiw, has officially recognized the ancestral lands of three clans within the Moskona tribe: Masakoda, Yen, and Yec c
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September 11, 2023
September 3, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology projected that Indonesia would experience a dearth in teachers, reaching 1.3 million, in 2024 i
August 22, 2023
Sentani, Jubi – Yulius Kekri, the chief of Muaif Village, has made a formal request to the local Education Office to suspend the salaries of nine teachers with civil servant status who
August 1, 2023
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The government is planning to stick with its controversial zoning system for state school enrollment, arguing that it remains key to addressing Indonesia's long-s
June 26, 2023
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Education Minister Nadiem Makarim unveiled on Monday the substantial loss of learning opportunities in Indonesia, a problem that predates the school closur
June 19, 2023
Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – The government has revoked the licenses of nearly two dozen universities engaged in fraud over the past week, adding to the hundreds it has shut down in recent
May 16, 2023
Amy Heppy, Jakarta – Jakarta Education Agency Acting Head Syaefuloh Hidayat stated that the agency will revoke the Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) of students who are caught smoking cigarettes
May 3, 2023
Sulistyowati Irianto – Academia is no longer an attractive career path for educated Indonesians, and this spells disaster for the nation's future.
April 7, 2023
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani recently revealed that the government has prepared a generous outlay of up to Rp 695.3 trillion ($46.5 billion) on the educati
April 6, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said Indonesia still needs 9 million digital talents to fulfill its digital economy potential of US$146 billio
March 29, 2023
BeritaSatu, Jakarta – Education Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim has urged grade schools to remove reading, writing, and basic math skill tests from their new student admission processes.
March 22, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology has said that more than 140,000 schools implemented the Kurikulum Merdeka (Independent Curriculum) in the
March 20, 2023
Maya Defianty and Kate Wilson – In an increasingly digitalised and automated world, education organisations worldwide have recognised critical thinking as a vital and valued skill in th
March 15, 2023
Guardian staff and agencies – Early every morning in a city in Indonesia's far east, sleepy teenagers can be seen trudging through the streets on their way to school.
March 7, 2023
Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) is cooperating with more than a dozen local universities to help close the gap between employers' demands
March 6, 2023
Tika Ayu, Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Yandri Susanto revealed that more than 72 percent of Indonesian Muslims cannot recite Quran in Arabic.
March 1, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Indonesia, Valerie Julliand, on Tuesday highlighted the importance of education for the lives of Indonesians and for ensu
Tika Ayu, Jakarta – The Indonesian Teachers Union Federation (FSGI), through a statement issued by secretary general Heru Purnomo on Tuesday, criticized the latest policy introduced by
Tika Ayu, Jakarta (Antara) – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Legislative Council (DPRD) is set to hold a meeting with the local education agency which comes after the local government issu
Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – In Kupang, in Indonesian West Timor, the first school bell of the day is now sounding far earlier than in the rest of the country.
February 28, 2023
Catholic leaders and teachers' bodies in Indonesia have decried a Christian-majority province's decision to start senior high school classes at 5 a.m.
February 7, 2023
Merauke, Jubi – Rector of Musamus State University Beatus Tambaip inaugurated 121 students who participated in the Teacher Professional Education program batch III in 2023 at Swiss-Belh
January 6, 2023
Jayapura, Jubi – A number of Papuan students who participate in the scholarship programs have not yet received payment of tuition fees and living expenses as of Thursday, January 5, 202
Timor Leste is proposing to amend its education law to make the Portuguese language mandatory in schools across the Catholic-majority country.
December 29, 2022
Tempo.Co – Imaji Lasahido (Intern), Jakarta – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is ranked first as the national campus with the most successful proposals and total funding for the Business C
December 19, 2022
Imaji Lasahido (Teras.Id), Jakarta – The Head of the Human Resources Development Agency or BPSDM Papua, Aryoko Rumaropen stated that there were at least 528 Papua students receiving sch
December 17, 2022
Jakarta – If there is one lesson to be learned from the recent debate about demolishing a school to make way for a mosque, it is that no legal or bureaucratic shortcut is worth denying
December 2, 2022
Jayapura, Jubi – Founder of Papua Language Institute Samuel Tabuni said education in Papua especially in elementary school must be strengthened by implementing a contextual Papuan cultu
December 1, 2022
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Singapore – Indonesia's overseas graduates can potentially bring home economic benefits, as the country seeks to become one of the world's top five economies by its
November 30, 2022
Jayapura, Jubi – Head of the Vocational Development Division of the Papua Education Office Yulianus Kuaiyo said there should be special protection for teachers serving in conflict-prone
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Singapore – Indonesia sends more than 3,000 students to study in the UK every year.
October 18, 2022
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October 8, 2022
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Teachers should consider streamlining the curriculum and put more emphasis on nurturing student engagement rather than coverage of material, according to c
September 28, 2022
Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has urged the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology to increase the systematic dissemination of in
News Desk, Jakarta – Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim issued a clarification on Wednesday regarding his speech at a recent United Nations confer
September 14, 2022
Zulfa Sakhiyya, Semarang – Indonesia has a celebrated literacy rate of 98.2 percent, claimed by many as a great success of literacy efforts.
September 7, 2022
Tati L.
August 22, 2022
Laurens Ikinia, Auckland – Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association Oceania (PSAO) for a Ne
August 15, 2022
A Papuan student advocacy group has called for the establishment of a future Aotearoa New Zealand scholarship for West Papuans to replace a controversial Indonesian-funded programme tha
July 22, 2022
Indonesia's leading Catholic university has signed a deal to collaborate with nine universities and colleges in neighboring Timor-Leste, as part of an effort to improve education qualit
July 20, 2022
Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – A group of state university chancellors and prominent education figures on Tuesday demanded the specific mention of the Educational Institution for Teachers
July 14, 2022
Strip yourselves of all common sense and you might end up at the level of these educators in Indonesia, who are in trouble for staging an undressing competition for their primary school
July 5, 2022
Budi Satriawan, Yogyakarta – Concerned about how Indonesian students with hearing impairments often miss out on religious education, cleric Abdul Kahfi founded an Islamic boarding schoo
June 23, 2022
A new Asia Pacific social justice research and publication nonprofit has awarded a diversity communications trophy to a West Papuan postgraduate student who has advocated for the educat
June 13, 2022
The national major seminary in Timor-Leste has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Catholic university in Indonesia, aiming to improve the educational quality of seminarians.
June 12, 2022
Antara, Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir has called on SOEs to improve the quality of education in Islamic boarding schools to realize progress in civiliza
June 7, 2022
Merauke, Jubi – The Archbishop of Merauke, Petrus Canisius Mandagi, revealed that education services in the interior of Papua's Merauke Regency were not running, partly because teachers
May 26, 2022
George Heagney – Students from West Papua desperate to stay in New Zealand after having their scholarships cut are pinning their hopes on finding an employer to sponsor new working visa
May 20, 2022
George Heagney (Stuff) – A group of students from West Papua, the Melanesian Pacific region in Indonesia, are fearful about their futures in New Zealand after their scholarships were cu
May 5, 2022
Ryan Dagur – Timor-Leste's president-elect Jose Ramos-Horta held meetings with Catholic leaders, including the Vatican envoy, to discuss government and church cooperation in addressing