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SURAKARTA: Pancasila, the state ideology, will be a compulsory subject and be part of school curriculum beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, a legislator said
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URAKARTA: Pancasila, the state ideology, will be a compulsory subject and be part of school curriculum beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, a legislator said.
A legislator from the House of Representatives’ Commission X overseeing education, Dedy Gumelar, said the House and the government had agreed on the program at a meeting held in early June.
“Pancasila will be in the curriculum at all levels of school, from elementary to high school, and if necessary, at the tertiary level,” he told news portal tempointeraktif.com.
Dedy said it would not replace the subject of citizenship already in the curriculum as it would be a different subject. He said Indonesia, which comprised of many ethnic groups and religions, had to return to the Pancasila as the nation’s unifying ideology. — JP
