Comment: Graft eradication in 2011 curriculum

Dec, 23, Online

Following a discussion with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Education Ministry has announced plans to include an anticorruption module in the 2011 curriculum.
“Corruption can be reduced by arresting people, but these efforts should also involve the education system,” National Education Minister Muhammmad Nuh said Thursday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Nuh said corruption was not just an adult problem. “It is also a problem for children because they will grow and become adults and parents.” Children must be provided with honest education, he said. “The anticorruption education program can be shared by children with their parents,” Nuh said.

Your comments:

We must not lose sight of whatever good system we have or will have later on. It will depend on the doers in the system itself. As long as the doers are the people who implement their belief in God well, corruption will be wiped out. Why? Because they feel that God is keeping an eye on them 24 hours a day.
Syarif
Bogor
 
This is simultaneously hysterical and sad. It is hysterical because the eradication of corruption will mean less pocket money for officials, and that will never be allowed. It is sad because unless corruption is seriously tackled, Indonesia will be a morally bankrupt Islamic state.
I do hope that some part of this will become part of the curriculum, but how does a corrupt teacher in a corrupt system teach a generation of children that they deserve a brighter, corruption-free future?
My cynical take is that this is a step in the right direction, but implementation will be ‘allowed’ to wither.
Maurice Gold
Sanur, Bali