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View all search resultsFollowing the ferienjob scandal in Germany, experts urge the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry and local universities to improve their oversight of Indonesian students who go abroad for internships.
The Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry has launched a report on early childhood education centers as part of a larger effort to strengthen the policies introduced by minister Nadiem Makarim before the change of government in October.
The education minister has pointed to Indonesia's improved PISA rank as indicative of the efficacy of the government's emergency curriculum, but an expert has countered that the focus should remain on PISA scores, as targeted in the government's 2024 plan.
A 2023 World Bank study has found that Indonesian students on average lost 11.2 months of learning over three years of COVID-19, but that the government fared relatively well in managing education delivery during the pandemic.
East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Governor Viktor Laiskodat’s draconian decision to start high school in the predawn hours has received flak from educators and government agencies, since the policy came into effect at the end February.
When the education minister enforced online schooling as part of the government’s COVID-19 response on March 17, 2020, some people espied an opportunity to earn an extra income from the digital gap the policy would expose.
More than a year since the government imposed an online learning policy, it is pushing for the resumption of offline schooling for kindergartens and early childhood education. But are all stakeholders – schools, teachers, parents and students – ready for this?
A recent ruling by the Supreme Court to revoke a joint ministerial decree that banned state schools from prescribing religious attire has been met with criticism from rights activists and experts, who said it would put schoolgirls back into discriminatory dress codes.
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