Bali Schools Record Best National Exam Scores
Bali’s senior high schools recorded the highest national exam scores in the country, in both the individual score and average school score categories. Ni Kadek Vani Apriyanti, a student at state school SMAN 4 in Denpasar, got an almost perfect score of 59.20 across six subjects, or an average score of 9.87. As a result, more »
99.5% of High School Students Pass National Exam: Ministry
After receiving mounting criticism for this year’s national exams fiasco, the Education Ministry announced on Thursday that virtually all the high school students who participated in the tests managed to pass. “This year there were 1,581,286 high school students who took the exam and 1,573,036 students, or 99.48 percent of them passed the exam, meaning more »
New Curriculum Budget Cut by 67%
The budget set aside to implement the new school curriculum this year has been slashed by two-thirds, as the government acknowledged that less than 10 percent of the country’s schools would be ready to teach the changed syllabus. The Education and Culture Ministry’s new curriculum budget, initially set at Rp 2.49 trillion ($255 million), was more »
2013 School Textbook Supply to Cost Rp 172.5 Billion
The provision of textbooks for primary, secondary and vocational schools across the country will cost Indonesia some Rp 172.52 billion ($17.6 million), Education Minister Muhammad Nuh said Monday evening. Speaking at a hearing with House of Representatives Commission X, which deals with education affairs, Nuh said that the process to supply textbooks for the 2013-2014 more »
Islamic Schools to Teach Job Skills
Jusuf Kalla, the former vice president, has called on operators of Islamic boarding schools, known as pesantren, to introduce entrepreneurship to their students to increase their skills. “Aside from knowledge about religion, Islamic boarding schools should also introduce [entrepreneurship],” said Kalla in Yogyakarta’s Bantul district on Saturday. He said that ideally, Islamic boarding schools should more »
Wanted: Engineers to Keep Indonesia Competitive
Surabaya. Indonesia needs more engineering graduates to help boost economic growth and remain competitive once a regional economic community comes into force in 2015, a senior minister said over the weekend. Hatta Rajasa, the coordinating minister for the economy, said at an open lecture at Surabaya’s Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) that the country more »
Education Ministry to Clean House After National Exam Fiasco
Several high-ranking officials with the Ministry of Education and Culture will be terminated in the wake of this year’s national exam fiasco, Education Minister Muhammad Nuh said on Monday. “There will be a lot of job terminations,” Nuh told the Indonesian news portal Viva News. “We will announce the names eventually, but we should focus more »
New School Opens a New Chapter for Parung Kids
On a basketball court overlooking the fields of Parung, just outside Bogor, a tournament is taking place, accompanied by joyful cheers. Nearby, children and teachers are shrieking with laughter as they team up for sack races and tug-of-war challenges. The community of Parung has gathered on the eve of National Education Day earlier this month more »
Cheat Sheet Leaked Ahead of National Exam in East Java
The Indonesian Ombudsman commission has found that the government’s efforts to prevent cheating on the national examination have failed, as an answer sheet was leaked at a school in Mojokerto, East Java. One of the Ombudsman commissioners, Budi Santoso, said that the commission was tipped off after a text message alleged a leak. The commission more »
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