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Companies 23 hours ago
Student-led Water Guardian initiative takes long-term approach to sanitation
Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) ninth grader Darren Ismaya Karmaina’s Water Guardian initiative is testing a community sanitation and water-reuse model in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, with plans to evaluate its performance before considering further development.
Editorial 4 weeks ago
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Keep education funds in education
Separating the free meals program from the education budget is an important first step. However, the bigger test now is whether the government will genuinely commit to using the constitutionally mandated 20 percent education allocation to address the country’s perennial education challenges.
Academia 1 month ago
Stop policing AI in the classroom. Start teaching it
Instead of discouraging students from using generative AI, universities should teach them how to use the technology responsibly, transparently and ethically to prepare them for real-world applications in a fast-evolving workforce.
Jakarta 1 month ago
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52 percent of Jakarta Schools located near heavy metal-contaminated sites: study
Schools in the wealthiest neighborhood quintile were 49 times more likely to be near documented contaminated sites than those in the poorest areas, as industrial activity and affluent communities often overlap in urban areas.
Academia 2 months ago
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What Indonesian classroom never received
Indonesia’s chronic educational underperformance will never be solved by a top-down curriculum updates. Until policymakers focus on rebuilding foundational cognitive habits, like attention spans and reading stamina, long before students reach university, each new ministerial launch will simply deliver a fresh document to the same broken classroom.
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