Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A new survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO) has revealed that 19 percent of Indonesia's school-aged children could not afford to attend scho

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – With the sixth graders facing final exams and the new academic year about to start in July, officials at a state elementary school in Sepatan district, Tangera

Jakarta – The government's plan to provide free education for elementary and secondary school students must be a long-term policy and not a short-term move to counter political pressure

Jakarta – Confronting the fact that illiteracy in women is two times higher than that in men, the Office of the State Minister for Women's Empowerment, the Ministry of National Educatio

Yogyakarta, Surabaya – More than 500 lecturers, employees and students of Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) staged a protest on Monday against pay increases decided upon by the

Ade Irawan, Jakarta – High cost has become a pressing issue in the operation of schools in Indonesia.

Dili – Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta strongly criticized the Vatican's representative in East Timor Thursday for what he said was "unwanted interference" in Dili's plans to demote r

Samarinda, East Kalimantan – Though East Kalimantan is rich in natural resources, many of the schools in the province have fallen into disrepair from neglect.

Yogyakarta – Despite being known as the city of education, the number of children dropping out from elementary schools in Yogyakarta province is high.

Jakarta – Teachers and academics doubt the government's planned national final exam will be able to narrow the gap in education between schools across the country.

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Three teachers for an entire elementary school could be considered a lot in Bogor, because many schools in the regency only have one teacher for over 200 students

Nani Afrida and Dedy Ardiansyah, Banda Aceh/Meulaboh – As the sun rose over the devastated city of Banda Aceh on Wednesday morning, Maizul, a 40-year-old school teacher, was standing in

Many seats were left empty in badly damaged schools across Indonesia's Aceh province as children began lessons for the first time since the tsunami struck one month ago, killing thousan

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Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Sri Wahyuni, Jakarta/Yogyakarta – An education expert warned on Sunday that extensive liberalization of education would threaten the existence of local univers

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Bandarlampung – Four students are in intensive care in a hospital after the roof of their senior high school in Kotabumi, North Lampung regency collapsed a few days ago.

Yogyakarta – A student protest marred the inauguration of the Sunan Kalijaga Islamic State University on Thursday in Yogyakarta, with students calling on the government to prevent educa

Jakarta – Twelve junior high school principals were found to have charged extra fees aside from – hose that had been set between school boards and parents, an official of the Jakarta Ed

Indramayu – Almost twenty-five percent of school buildings are damaged in Indramayu regency, West Java province, it was reported recently.

Samarinda – Hundreds of Mulawarman University students held a rally on Monday here, demanding that the local government allocate a greater budget for education.

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Nearly 1,250 of 1,784 state schools in Tangerang regency are in need of renovation, but the regency administration has only allocated enough money, about Rp 60

Simon Marcus Gower, Jakarta – Nobody would question the importance and great value of books to the processes and tasks of learning and "becoming an educated person".

Muhammad Uzair, Palembang – Pupils of an elementary school in Banyuasin regency here attend classes in the village hall, after strong winds leveled their school to the ground last month

Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – Moonlighting teachers and the lack of toilets in many schools are among the reasons for alarming levels of the absence rate of elementary school teachers in Indo

The legal dispute over a land swap deal dating back to 2000 between the government and developer PT Tata Disantara, owned by former manpower minister Abdul Latief, has yet to be resolve

Sri Wahyuni and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Sleman Regent Ibnu Subiyanto reassured teachers and students here on Monday that state-run Ambarrukmo Elementary School would not be demolis

Almost a third of Indonesia's state primary school buildings need repairs and some are so decrepit they threaten children's safety, a senior education ministry official said.

Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – The start of the academic year is four months away, but schools in Jakarta – including kindergartens, high schools, state and private schools – are already adver

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Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – The education of women plays a more pivotal role than the use of contraceptives in curbing population growth, an expert said on Monday.

Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has urged the Indonesian government to make the education of girls a priority if it is to improve the country's development prospec

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Schools are the new breeding grounds for violence in Indonesia if the murders and acts of brutality at colleges and universities over the last month are anythin

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Robert Go, Jakarta – At the beginning of his career, an Indonesian teacher can expect a salary of just S$170 per month – a reflection of the low priority given to education.

Brad Collis – When Sipriano Martins was in high school he had a code name to hide his identity. It was Saruntu, which means "fight like a crazy man".

Jakarta – The number of students taking the 2003 state university admission exam (SPMB) declined by 12.11 percent to 350,306 students from 398,589 in 2002.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Provincial Legislative Council decided on Friday that it would refuse to implement the newly endorsed bill on national education in the province

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Prestigious state-run universities are being criticised for their decision to admit students who fail entrance exams, as long as the students fork out millions

Banda Aceh, Aceh – Some 507 school buildings have been set on fire in 10 districts in Aceh since the Indonesian government launched a military offensive in the restive province on May 1

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – They used to be commonly found in discotheques or dark alleyways in unsavoury parts of the city, sold by professional peddlers.

Jakarta – More groups in the archipelago joined North Sulawesi's move on Friday to reject the newly endorsed education bill by filing a petition for a judicial review with the Supreme C

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The House of Representatives endorsed the controversial education bill on Wednesday despite the absence of the largest faction, the Indonesian Democratic Party

Jakarta – About 10,000 youth, mostly high school students, rallied outside parliament yesterday, urging legislators to pass a controversial Bill to regulate religious teaching in privat

Jakarta – Some 5,000 people from the group, "Society Concerned with National Education" staged a rally in front of the House of Representatives here on Thursday, rejecting a House plan

Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta/Manado – Regionalism is the latest, unintended consequence of the much-debated national education bill, which has already divided the nation along religious lin

Locals in the Indonesian province of Aceh are accusing forces they won't name of setting about destroying the island's very future, its schools.

Richel Langit, Jakarta – The harmonious relations developed before and during the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies seem destined to be short-lived for Muslims and Ch

Mataram – Around 305,000 people in West Nusa Tenggara are illiterate, according to estimates by a local official on Friday.