Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – Hundreds of students from various universities in Medan, North Sumatra, staged a rally on Wednesday to call on the government to stop what they c

Jakarta – Women's rights advocacy group Institut KAPAL Perempuan has called on members of the public to join the effort to implement the country's 12-year compulsory education policy, w

Jakarta – A corruption watchdog said it had unearthed alleged corruption in the procurement of textbooks at some elementary schools in Depok, West Java, since 2015.

Moses Ompusunggu, Bambang Muryanto and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Yogyakarta/Medan – Indonesian state universities are welcoming the latest policy of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's admi

Celestina Soares – The General Director of the Ministry of Education (ME) Antoninho Pires said many public schools are not in good condition and do not follow prescribed education stand

John McBeth, Jakarta – It has been a decade since successive Indonesian governments began devoting 20% of the national budget to education.

Tabita Diela, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed his cabinet to open the university sector to 100 percent foreign investment, and allow overseas institutions to ope

Jakarta – The Jakarta Ombudsman says exams and answer keys were leaked prior to the administering of the national exams in Jakarta, Bekasi and Bekasi regency.

Aisyah Llewellyn – Jevon Tantono is a confessed "mechatronics geek".

Celestina Soares – Currently 787 people with disabilities have access to formal education from Lospalos, Ainaro, Aileu and including the special administrative region of Oe-Cusse.

Celestina Soares – Currently, 396 teachers have received inclusive education training; from this number 70 people have their Masters in this area.

Jakarta – Education and Cultural Minister Muhadjir Effendy has apologized for what he admitted was an error made in sixth-grade social science textbooks, which referred to Jerusalem as the capital

Lolita Pacheco, Est – The School Principal Alberto da Costa Braz from Secondary School 4 September Balide, has placed a ban on his students, especially for girls not to wear short uniforms and to f

Celestina Soares – Since 2016, the government through the Ministry of Education has distributed 1100 chairs and tables to schools throughout Timor-Leste.

Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – Bogor regency is home to the highest number of damaged schools in Indonesia, due largely to an insufficient budget for infrastructure development, inaccurate data

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – Thousands of members of mass organizations affiliated with Indonesia's largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama and students of madrasah diniyah (Is

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto, Central Java – Thousands of members of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Islamic organization, flocked to Purwokerto town square in Banyumas regency, Central Jav

Jakarta – Jakarta administration secretary Saefullah has expressed regret over state electricity company PLN's cutting power to West Jakarta schools because of their late payments.

Danang Firmanto, Jakarta – Culture and Education Minister Muhadjir Effendy has a way to change the state of the national education system.

Paulina Quintao, The network Timor – Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) recommended the Ministry of Education to conduct in-depth research on the implementation of mother tongue education in basi

Paulina Quintao – Some 340 students of Bogor and Maubara Public High Schools, in Liquisa municipality did not sit for their exams for first semester due to a strike called by volunteer teachers awa

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste National Youth Council (CNJTL) considers language ability as one of the barriers impeding young Timorese access to opportunities offered in neighbouring countries

Paulina Quintao – National Members of Parliament (MPs) have questioned teaching quality and education standards across the country as grade five students in basic schools are still struggling to sp

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Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Culture and Education Minister Muhadjir Effendy intends to strengthen religious education for students by excluding it from the regular in-classroom curriculum and

Rhiannon Elston – At Rainha da Paz school in Dili, students play in the shadow of a burnt-out building.

Paulina Quintao – National Members of Parliament (MPs) have questioned teaching quality and education standards across the country as grade five students in basic schools are still struggling to sp

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) has expressed concern over the Ministry of Education's policy to turn several high schools into vocational schools due to the lack o

Jakarta – More than 1 million high school students across the country began taking the national exams that kicked off on Monday with some schools reporting delays caused by poor infrastructure.

Jakarta – School administrators in Jakarta have every reason to worry that the implementation of the computer-based national examinations could face difficulties given spotty internet connections a

Jakarta – A recent study commissioned by the Network for Education Watch Indonesia (JPPI) reveals the index of education services in Indonesia in 2016 ranks lower than the Philippines and Ethiopia.

Venidora Oliveira – National Member of Parliament has raised strong suspicions over the selection process of new students at the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) as some students with low

Paulina Quintao – Private secondary schools are refusing to accept young mothers wanting to continue their studies after giving birth as there is still no legal basis.

Indonesia has ordered a publisher to withdraw a sex-education book for children, which addresses the subject of masturbation, for being too vulgar.

Christine Franciska – A children's book is at the centre of a controversy in Indonesia because it teaches children about masturbation.

Jakarta – Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection has found that 35.90 percent of children in urban and rural areas have never attended school or dropped out due to a lack of financing

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has decided that the national examination (UN) will continue, rejecting the Culture and Education Ministry's proposal to scrap the standardized evaluation t

Ina Parlina and Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told Education and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy on Wednesday to think twice before moving ahead with his plan to scra

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – In an effort to improve the vocational education system, the government has invited business players to contribute in an expanded role to shape the curriculum and set th

Moses Ompusunggu and Andi Hajramurni, Jakarta/Makassar – Seventeen-year-old Oliver Sianturi, in his final year at SMAN 8 senior high school in Bukit Duri, South Jakarta, said he believed the nation

Paulina Quintao – Teachers are continuing to use violence to discipline students at schools, even though there is a zero-tolerance policy in place.National MP Anastasia Amaral said she disagreed wi

Paulina Quintao – The school feeding menu has been criticized for being poor quality and lacking nutritious food.

Moses Ompusunggu and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Building on the gains of past regimes that claimed to make education a priority, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is seeking to take the country's educatio

Semarang, Central Java – The immigration office in Central Java has deported 51 students who had come from Timor Leste but were found staying in violation of stay permit regulations.

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Education has still not created a policy to ensure school principals accept female drop-outs so that they can continue their studies after childbirth.

Lily Yulianti Farid – A recent report placed Indonesia 60th out of 61 countries in terms of interest in reading.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of missing the opportunity to benefit from its demographic dividend – which will peak in 2025 to 2030 – as it struggles to keep its youth at schoo

Thomas Ora, Dili – The Timor-Leste government has appreciated a Catholic plan to prioritize peace education in schools which is needed to heal societal trauma from years of conflict.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muslim students of junior high schools across Indonesia learn from their Islamic text books that Jews are "sly and untrustworthy" despite the fact that several verses in the

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Education has conducted Portuguese language testing for pre-school, secondary and vocational school teachers to assess their ability.