Education 3 - Indonesia at Melbourne

Home schooling exacerbates inequalities. More options are needed for reopening schools

Education, Policies, Policy in Focus, Public health, Society

More options are needed to safely open schools and address students’ diverse needs, write Arjuni Rahmi Barasa and Shintia Revina.

Talking Indonesia: Covid-19 and early childhood education

Education, Talking Indonesia

How have schools, children and parents responded to the challenges of Covid-19? What are the likely implications of prolonged home schooling for Indonesian children? Dr Dirk Tomsa chats to Dr Vina Adriany in the latest episode of Talking Indonesia.

Hard times for pesantren facing Covid-19

Education, Policy in Focus, Public health, Religion

Islamic boarding schools are among the worst affected by the pandemic, writes Professor Jamhari Makruf.

Can the Covid-19 pandemic boost inclusive education?

Education, Human Rights, Law

Dr Dina Afrianty, Slamet Thohari, Tommy Firmanda and Mahalli write that the Covid-19 pandemic may force teachers to get up to speed with technology that can improve access to education for students with disabilities.

Arief Budiman, activist, public intellectual and scholar (1941-2020)

Education, Politics, Society

Prominent public intellectual and leading critic of the Soeharto regime Arief Budiman died on 23 April. Professor Vedi Hadiz reflects on the life of the dissident academic and Foundation Professor of Indonesian Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Girls do better than boys at school in Indonesia – if they get the chance

Analysis, Education, Gender

Indonesian girls are now outperforming boys in both literacy and numeracy in the early grades. But as Senza Arsendy and George Sukoco write, the picture is more complicated at the high school level.

Sex education and swimming pools: child commissioner’s blunder shows need for change

Education, Policies, Public health, Society

A laughable claim about the danger of falling pregnant in swimming pools raises serious concerns about the state of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Indonesia, writes SurveyMETER’s Dwi Oktarina

Deaf students demand rights as a minority language group

Education, Human Rights, Linguistics, Policies, Society

High university drop-out rates for deaf students point to the need for education in their mother tongue, writes Alies Poetri Lintangsari.

Mother-tongue language education: improving education quality while preserving culture

Analysis, Education

Bahasa Indonesia is the mother tongue of less than 10 per cent of the Indonesian population. Senza Arsendy makes the case for greater use of local languages in the education of young students.

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