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he Education and Culture Minister, Anies Baswedan, has said that one-fourth of the nation'€™s schools will begin to use the 2013 curriculum this year, after earlier suspension due to glitches.

The curriculum, which Anies had announced was to be suspended in December 2014, has been updated and will be implemented at both primary and secondary schools.

'€œ[The glitches] have been corrected. There is to be an additional 19 percent [of the total number] of schools in the country using it,'€ he said on Saturday as quoted by tempo.co.

Anies said the government had also trained 2.9 million teachers and updated textbooks to implement the curriculum. The books will be sent to schools next month.

The implementation of the new curriculum will begin in July, at the beginning of the new academic year.

The 2013 curriculum, first implemented by Anies'€™ predecessor, Mohammad Nuh, drew harsh criticism for creating confusion among students, parents and teachers, who had complained about the extra work it demanded.

While imposing many changes to the learning process established by the previous curriculum, the government implemented the new curriculum after a short one-year trial.

The ministry later suspended the curriculum implementation and decided to review it.

Most schools have been using the 2006 curriculum, with a select few schools appointed to continue using the 2013 curriculum in order to participate in its development.