Zack Petersen – In Indonesia, the sex trade is a wink-and-nod industry – everyone acknowledges its existence, but refuses to talk about it openly.

SP/Fuska Sani Evani, Yogyakarta – Education authorities in Yogyakarta have rejected the Education Ministry's new elementary school curriculum for 2013, saying that it violates prevailin

Salim Osman – After weeks of review, Indonesia's Education Ministry eventually succumbed to societal pressure that English lessons be retained in elementary schools.

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Paris – The Minister of Education of Timor Leste, Benito dos Santos Fleitas, highlighted on Friday at the Unesco headquarters the cooperation of Cuba with his country in the fields of H

Bogor – In an attempt to reduce school clashes and develop character building among senior high students, the Jakarta Police are hosting a six-day disciplinary boot camp for 288 student

After weeks of speculation, the Education Ministry has announced that English language lessons will not be scrapped from the nation's elementary school curriculum after all.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police, in coordination with the Jakarta Education Agency, plan to send 3,000 disruptive high school students to boot camp as part of an effort to quell school vio

Jakarta – Changes to the national primary school curriculum currently under consideration will not improve education unless the government improves the quality and welfare of its teache

Jakarta – The government's plan to scrap natural and social sciences from the primary school curriculum has met with widespread condemnation from educators and education activists who s

Jakarta, Indonesia – The police say they will hold a boot camp for student troublemakers following brawls between rival high school students.

Serang, Banten – "We used to cram 45 to 50 students into each classroom here," says Komarudin, principal of Kasunyatun State Elementary School in the town of Serang.

Jakarta – Responding to demands that proper sex education be taught in schools in order to protect children from rape, Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh said that it was unnec

Natasia Christy & Pitan Daslani – As of the next academic year, the government will reinstate Pancasila courses in Indonesia's elementary and high schools in a desperate attempt to

Jakarta – A top education official has defended the government's plan to streamline the curriculum for primary education, saying it is customized to boost character building.

Following news that science and social studies would be largely scrubbed from the nation's elementary school curriculum, the government has decided to make young Indonesians' lessons ev

Former East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta has called for help for students wanting to study in Tasmania.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Monday that he would raise the idea of adding hours for religious lessons in schools with the education minister.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Comedian-turned-lawmaker Dedi Gumelar on Friday aired his support behind the government's move to erase science and social science from the curriculum of elem

Jakarta – Following two recent school brawls that have resulted in the deaths of two students, Religious Affairs minister Suryadharma Ali put the blame on a lack of religious discussion

Arlina Arshad – Indonesia's creaking university system is failing to keep pace with its booming economy, struggling to produce graduates equipped for modern working life in the Southeas

Jakarta – The vast majority of students in Indonesian schools say that they have been targeted by bullies, according to a survey released on Monday.

Senior high schools students in the capital should no longer have to pay state school fees as the Jakarta administration has decided to disburse funds for its 12-year compulsory educati

More than one-third of 24,000 junior high school graduates in Central Java's Banyumas are unable to afford their tuition fees, the Banyumas Education Agency reported.

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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.