Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink and Senior Official for International Organizational Affairs Erica Barks-Ruggles on the Secretary's Upcoming Travel to the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Hawaii state.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from state.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Education Minister, Nadiem Makarim, has highlighted the negative impact of a rigid curriculum on educational opportunities that have been missed for decades.
Putri Ariani scores full scholarship from Ministry of Education as AGT star dreams of Juilliard coconuts.co - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coconuts.co Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ministry to invite Kampus Merdeka students to solve poverty problem antaranews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from antaranews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo recently decided to merge the country’s Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Education. Yesterday, Education Minister Nadiem Makarim was tapped to lead this combined ministry. Jokowi took this step in tandem with his government’s decision to make the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) – an umbrella body created to co-ordinate national research which was previously attached to the Ministry of Research – into a fully fledged independent agency. Mergers and splits involving ministries related to education and research, such as this one, have happened before under the Jokowi administration. These kinds of overhauls have consequences – from influencing how the education system is run, to determining the nation’s research priorities.
Getty Images Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory. The government’s signing of the decree on religious attire in school dress codes came a few weeks after a school in West Sumatra province forced non-Muslim female students to wear a hijab. The issue captured national attention because of a protest by the parents of one of the girls, news of which spread on social media. Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory, a move that followed national outrage over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab.