Education - Indonesia at Melbourne

Why are more Indonesian university graduates jostling for menial jobs?

Indonesia now has two familiar images of graduate hardship, each with its own distinctive colour: the graduate in a green ojol (online motorcycle-taxi) jacket, and the graduate in an orange PPSU vest. They are usually told as separate stories. But both point to the same condition: graduates working in jobs that do not require the qualifications they spent years acquiring.

Talking Indonesia: experiencing Indonesia

Education, Talking Indonesia

In this episode, Dr Jacqui Baker speaks to Liam Prince, Director of the ACICIS program based at the University of Western Australia, about the future of Australia’s Asia and Indonesia capabilities.

Indonesia’s social media ban for under-16s deprives many children of their only public space

Analysis, Cyberspace, Education, Highlights, Policies

While the intention behind this policy is commendable, the design has two critical flaws. It fails to learn from the merits and shortcomings of Australia’s social media ban policy. More importantly, it misunderstands the role the internet plays in children’s social lives.

Talking Indonesia: education in Papua

Education, Talking Indonesia

In this episode, Dr Murni Sianturi challenges some of the most deeply held assumptions about schooling, knowledge, and what it means to learn. Her research in West Papua pushes back on three pervasive myths: that indigenous parents don't care about their children's education, that learning only happens in formal schools, and that indigenous communities are problems to be solved rather than partners to be heard.

Talking Indonesia: school violence and bullying

Education, Society, Talking Indonesia

In recent months, Indonesians have grown increasingly concerned and indeed outraged following several reports of deadly violence involving children as young as elementary school age. In a case in Riau in May, an eight-year-old boy died after complications due to a ruptured appendix, which his parents believe was the result of beatings he suffered at the hands of fellow students aged 11-13 years.

Unpaid incentives: Reform of Indonesia’s higher education system long overdue

Analysis, Education

The controversy over the government’s refusal to pay civil servant lecturers their overdue performance allowance (tunjangan kinerja, or tukin) — which they are legally entitled to —certainly highlights the vulnerability of academic jobs in Indonesia. But it also exposes how politics and bureaucracy are undermining real reform of the country’s higher education system.

‘Information warriors’ must uphold information integrity in Indonesia

Education, Media, Society

Indonesia urgently needs a clear strategy to respond to the United Nations’ most recent warning about the dangers of ‘information ecosystems’ losing their integrity.

Talking Indonesia: Indonesian language instruction

Education, Linguistics

Today's guests on Talking Indonesia, Dr Howie Manns and Dr Jessica Kruk, chat about teaching colloquial and formal Indonesian and other challenges faced by Indonesian teachers in Australia.

Hearing without listening: declining Indonesian language literacy in Australia

Education

As student of Bahasa Indonesia for over ten years, it’s something I’ve frequently observed within the Australia-Indonesia bilateral relationship. Australian captains of industry and government ministers expect they can speak to Indonesians in English – rarely do Australians show any commitment to speaking with Indonesians.

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