Jakarta – The House of Representatives has accused the National Education Ministry of covering up rampant cheating during the recent National Exam.

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – Hundreds of students, social workers and NGOs activists celebrated the Nusantara AIDS Vigil (MRAN) 2009 on Saturday night by issuing a five-point statement,

Putri Prameshwari – In the latest move by a local government to adopt regulations inspired by Shariah Law, a district in East Java Province has reportedly banned public elementary schoo

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Around half the education agency heads across the country's 33 provinces are "incompetent" and only secured their positions because of campaigning they conducte

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The newly endorsed law on legal education entities continues to ignite public outcry, despite the government's efforts to defuse accusations that the legislatio

Agus Maryono, Purbalingga – Around 1,000 state-school teachers in Purbalingga, Central Java, have protested against a cut in their certification allowance, to which they are entitled in

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Dozens of students followed their counterparts across the nation in protesting against the recently passed education legal entity law, claiming it will tur

Havana – Timor-Leste carried out its second National Literacy Teaching Graduation, a campaign developed with the Cuban program Yes I Can.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Critics and education experts are up in arms after the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill on educational legal entities, which detractors say w

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A global ranking on education equity recently released by UNESCO has placed Indonesia 71st out of 129 countries surveyed, down from 62nd in 2007 and 58th in 200

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Rizal Harahap, Bandung, Medan – To commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Indonesian Teachers Union (PGRI) on Tuesday, thousands of teachers across the country sta

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Ernawati recalls her outrage when her daughter, a second-grader at a private school in Bekasi, West Java, came home in tears one day.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A proposed bill to advance the privatization of top universities in the country may lead to classism and conflict, as higher tuition fees will prevent underpriv

The government's plan to increase the education budget to 20 percent of state expenditure, or around Rp 224.44 trillion (approximately US$24.45 billion), in 2009 has raised expectations

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government has confirmed the record high education budget next year will not mean free education for all, as the largest budget component will go to teacher

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – One-half of the Rp 224.4 trillion (US$24.45 billion) in the education budget proposed for next year has been allocated for ensuring all Indonesian children comp

Erwida Maulia and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday over the government's plan to allocate 20 percent of the 2009 state budget to education, warning the am

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The implementation of the electronic school textbook (e-books) policy has been met with glitches, with parents of students forced to buy expensive textbooks for

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While millions of students across the country began the new academic year Monday, many parents were busy dealing with a problem that has yet to be addressed.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Education activists in Yogyakarta on Friday set up monitoring posts to ensure the enrollment of new students in junior and senior high schools was carried o

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – With rampant child labor denying many the right to an education, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Thursday the key to fighting it was education.

Agnes Winarti, Jakarta – Parents of new state elementary school students should be cautious of illegal school fees during the admission period and in the first months of school activiti

East Timor's president Jose Ramos Horta has called on Australia to be much more generous in providing access for East Timorese to work and study in Australia, describing Canberra's curr

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The disbursement of school assistance (BOS) funds has failed to prevent 125,850 children from having to drop out of school in Surabaya, East Java, a municip

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