Indonesia

Total population (in thousands)	257,564 (2015)
Population aged 14 years and younger (in thousands)	71,7326 (2015)
Out-of-school children	2,644,527 (2015)
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Access

Indonesia: Too Poor for School: Economic Barriers to Education in Banten

Story Source: Tempo.co ~ Go to Original Article Susi Saodah, a resident of Tangerang, only wants the best for her daughter, ...
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Malaysia: Pledges to Facilitate Education of Migrant (TKI) Children

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 24 July 2018 | By: SUCI SEKARWATI | Story Source: Ladies Want More ~ Go ...
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Indonesian City Admits Migrant Children to Public Schools

Photo Credit: Dayinta Pinasthika / IOM 2018 (From URL) Date: 17 July 2018 | By: IOM | Story Source: IOM ...
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Children with Disabilities

Inclusive Education for Special Needs Students in Indonesia

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 8 Dec 2018 | by: Tempo.co | Story Source: Tempo.co ~ Go to Original ...
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Learning about tolerance in Jakarta’s inclusive sports festival for children

Following similar festivals held in Pasuruan, Bone and Subang, an inclusive sports festival for children was held for the first ...
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Indonesia: Learning to meet the needs of disabled children

"Siti is the 10th and final participating teacher in the #TeacherTuesday campaign. She works in a school supported by Save the Children ...
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Emergency

Indonesia: Calls to include disaster education at schools

Story Source: Al Jazeera ~ Go to Original Article Among 6,000 schools in Jakarta, only 165 have been taught how to ...
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Malaysia: Pledges to Facilitate Education of Migrant (TKI) Children

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 24 July 2018 | By: SUCI SEKARWATI | Story Source: Ladies Want More ~ Go ...
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Indonesian City Admits Migrant Children to Public Schools

Photo Credit: Dayinta Pinasthika / IOM 2018 (From URL) Date: 17 July 2018 | By: IOM | Story Source: IOM ...
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Gender

Empowering girls and women through storytelling – the 2016 Laureate for the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education tells her story

By: UNESCO, 06 March 2018 Education plays a central role in empowering women and girls – from providing access to ...
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In Indonesia, educating child brides remains a tough challenge

A groundbreaking report by UNICEF and the Indonesian government found that girls marrying before the age of 18 were at ...
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Child brides: Why underage girls are marrying in Indonesia

Aulia* was 15 when she was married. There wasn't a lot of choice. She had been dating Arief, a sweet-faced ...
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ICT in Education

New but old trend in education

Nowadays, our lives are practically dependent on the ubiquity of Information Communications Technology (ICT). The dependence on ICT is so ...
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Digital literacy: A growing demand

Information technology has become a necessity in our classrooms. The break-neck speed at which technological innovations are changing business and ...
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Microsoft names leading education innovators in Asia-Pacific

Microsoft Asia-Pacific recently announced its 2014-2015 class of education innovators featuring 23 Microsoft Showcase Schools and 173 Microsoft Innovative Educator ...
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Innovative Financing

How Indonesia is improving the quality of its education

This year, Indonesia celebrates the first decade of its school grant scheme BOS (Bantuan Operasional Sekolah). The program aims to ...
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Community grants for the next generation

"Governments and donors are searching for the most effective ways to distribute development aid. Some suggest that local communities should ...
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Learning Outcomes

Indonesia to teach kids disaster-readiness

Story Source: The Straits Times ~ Go to Original Article By Linda Yulisman. Indonesia is ramping up efforts to better ...
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Indonesia: Quality learning and teachers’ professional development: Two sides of the same coin

Educational technology will be for naught in supporting quality learning unless the professional development of teachers is taken into account ...
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FLS in Action: Regional Planning Workshop to Expand Flexible Learning Strategies for Out-of-School Children in ASEAN

ognizant of the need to expand the provision of FLS in the ASEAN region, UNESCO Bangkok will organise a two-day ...
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Mother Tongue

Lobbying for English in Indonesia denies children mother-tongue education

Indonesia's new primary school curriculum has been lambasted for 'dropping' English, but its real failure is to deny children in ...
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Partnership

University alliance in Asia aims to boost regional ties and global influence

Fifteen universities across Asia have formed a consortium in order to capitalise on the region’s economic power to facilitate intra-Asian mobility and ...
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Policy and Curriculum

Indonesia to teach kids disaster-readiness

Story Source: The Straits Times ~ Go to Original Article By Linda Yulisman. Indonesia is ramping up efforts to better ...
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Situation Analysis of Out-of-School Children in Nine Southeast Asian Countries

In an effort to assist the countries in Southeast Asia to develop more robust policies and programmes for out-of-school children ...
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Education user committee improves teacher service performance in a remote Indonesian village

Chair and members of the Education User Committee announce the teachers’ performance scores in a meeting attended by the representatives ...
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