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Indonesian students among winners of World Robot Olympiad

The team created a model robot called ZOID.

4 years ago
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Transgender pupil's suicide unites France school

A school in northern France on Friday paid tribute to a 17-year-old transgender pupil who killed herself earlier in the week, with pupils calling for greater tolerance from officials. ...

4 years ago
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Apple Developer Academy in Indonesia holds graduation with virtual event

The students had to adapt to virtual lessons and collaborated with each other over distance. ...

4 years ago

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Lalala Festival: When music collides with Mother Nature

The Lalala Festival, Indonesia’s first international forest music festival in, ended with a blast on Saturday night in Cikole Lembang, Bandung. 

8 years ago
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What you can do if you're tempted to procrastinate

Here are some tips to remove ourselves from the quicksand trap that is procrastination.

8 years ago
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University students create Islamic alternative to Pokemon Go

Two students from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) have come up with a concept for an online game that aims to minimize the negative effects of the widely played Pokemon Go. 

8 years ago
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Nobel Physics laureate to give public lectures in Bandung

The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has invited Dutch theoretical physicist professor Gerard ’t Hooft, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus J.G. Veltman, to be a guest speaker at the sixth International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences at ITB in Bandung, West Java, on Nov. 2-3. 

8 years ago
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Before stress leads to suicide, here's how you can help

According to the WHO, suicide is the second-most common cause of death among people of the productive age. There are tons of factors for high suicide rates among teenagers and young adults.

8 years ago
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How the young Muslim generation is changing the world

Shelina Janmohamed, author of Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World, says it is important to pay attention to the young Muslim generation, or Generation M.

8 years ago
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Education expo to bring US, Swiss boarding schools to Jakarta

Representatives from 18 prestigious international boarding schools will participate in an education expo slated for Nov. 19 at the InterContinental Hotel MidPlaza Jakarta in Central Jakarta.

8 years ago
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Yogyakarta university educates youths about jihad through comic books

Religious comic books for youths are being launched by the Islamic and Social Transformation Study Center (CISForm) of Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) in Yogyakarta.

8 years ago
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Hundreds of students take part in safe driving campaign

Hundreds of students from five high schools in Jakarta participated in a defensive driving course at Sirkuit Gokart in Sentul, Bogor, West Java, on Saturday.

8 years ago
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China seeks more students from Southeast Asian countries

China is seeking to attract more students from Southeast Asian countries.

8 years ago
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JIS celebrates diversity through 'Cultural Week'

Hundreds of pre-school and elementary school students participated in the annual Cultural Week that highlights the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge). Initiated by Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) and taking place at the JIS Pondok Indah Elementary campus in South Jakarta, the event runs for one week until Oct. 31.

8 years ago
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Language endangerment in multilingual Indonesia

According to Ethnologue, a web-based statistical database of world languages, a total of 138 Indonesian local languages have been labeled as “threatened” (98 languages), “nearly extinct” (28 languages), and “extinct” (12 languages).

8 years ago
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When death is appreciated more than life

It is ironic how a eulogy is given only after the passing of a loved one. You can include the nicest things in the world in a eulogy, but what good does it do if they’re dead?

8 years ago
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Batam students join HIV/AIDS awareness campaign

Some 200 high school students in Batam, Riau Islands, have joined an anti-HIV/AIDS campaign held by the government to raise awareness about the virus among the young generation. 

8 years ago
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What running is really all about

It’s strikingly astonishing how the simple act of putting one leg in front of the other could truly alter a man’s life. Running was never meant to be an individual sport - at least not for me.

8 years ago
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EU provides over 1,600 scholarships each year

More than 1,600 scholarships are available annually for Indonesians interested in studying in the EU.

8 years ago
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The bittersweet symphony of 'merantau'

The decision to continue my education outside my place of origin was simply because I wanted to see what was like to be out “there”. 

8 years ago
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Rethinking women's role as 'invisible' farmers

Women’s role in shaping agriculture nowadays needs to be taken into account. According to the 2013 census Indonesia has 7.4 million female farmers, exceeding the current population of Hong Kong itself. These women mostly reside in rural areas and usually live under the poverty line. 

8 years ago
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Will we forget how to write by hand?

History teaches us that people will always look for shortcuts to make things easier, which explains why technology is so prominent in our everyday lives. Does this mean we will forget how to write by hand in the future?

8 years ago
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Girls take over key positions in ministries to promote gender equality

Not a single country in the world totally practices gender equality, said the director of a child rights organization on Tuesday.

8 years ago
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The lethal archetype

Think about it, the manic pixie dream girl is called a dream girl for a reason. Think of Natalie Portman (as Sam) in Garden State, or Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or even Alaska Young in Looking for Alaska; what do they all have in common?

8 years ago
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Expo promotes foreign universities to Indonesian students

An education expo roadshow is halfway through its tour of four Indonesian cities

8 years ago
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Rethinking education: When an academically oriented approach might not be ideal

But when it comes to work, or even college, how strong is our academic achievement against other success-defining factors? Are our grades the only thing that admissions officers and employers look at?

8 years ago
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Student fulfills dream of diving with whale sharks

Despite the beauty of the whale shark, the largest fish in the sea is still struggling for survival due to unregulated fishing. Concerned with the species’ plight, Kresna Agung Negara, a postgraduate student from the Bandung Institute of Technology, has taken part in an environmental campaign in Cenderawasih Bay in Papua.

8 years ago
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Youths campaign for SDGs to spread awareness

To help raise awareness about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), youths under leadership organization AIESEC in Indonesia will conduct a campaign walk on Sept. 25.

8 years ago
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Oxford tops new ranking as Asian universities struggle for recognition

UK and US universities dominate yet another university ranking, while Asian institutions struggle for recognition.

8 years ago
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Organization encourages autistic individuals to learn employable skills

There will always be more than one way to see everything; for Tim Wilcox, autism is merely part of an individual’s personality and “it is up to us as society to see it.”

8 years ago
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Face recognition technology to block children from internet cafes

East China's Jiangxi province has started to install face recognition technology in internet cafes across the province to stop entry of children, thepaper.cn reported.

8 years ago
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Why pursuing a master's degree abroad is important

Around a month before I left Indonesia to start my master’s degree program in architectural history, a colleague of mine posed me this question, "Do you think pursuing a master’s degree, especially abroad, can make you a good architect here?” He continued judgmentally that formal study was not in line with developing one’s career in a profession. Not only that it draws one farther from practical problems in the field, it also gives no actual hands-on experience on a real context in the workplace. 

8 years ago
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The peril of grade-chasers to education culture

If education means working “toward the exam” instead of working toward understanding concepts, then students won’t fully appreciate the learning process.  

8 years ago
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