Nov 13, 2018 Last Updated 6:23 AM, Nov 5, 2018

Inside Indonesia

Education

Essay: Harmony versus hate

Masykuri Bakri doesn’t fit the stereotype for a moderate Muslim leader

The Floating School

Despite its recent start, the Floating School already has 83 students. (Rahmat Hidayat)

A mobile school in South Sulawesi offers new horizons to young islanders

Fighting apathy, seeking engagement

Students travelling by ojek to their KKN destination. (Sarah Windred)

Students have mixed feelings about a mandatory community service program at Indonesian universities

Hope in the darkness

Kalsoom Jaffari has dedicated her life in Indonesia to helping other refugees

A Hazara fleeing persecution has dedicated her life in Indonesia to helping her fellow refugees in Bogor

Farmers’ worst enemy

Chemical pesticides and fertiliser are sold freely in small village retailers together with food items - Credit: Center for Anthropological Studies – Universitas Indonesia in collaboration with ARC DG, DP130100051, October 2014 / Muki Wicaksono

Over-use of pesticides is making the crops ‘sick’, but only farmers educated about the environment understand this

Fighting for existence

Three young Jakartans participating in REPLING in Cijambe - Credit: Erik Suhana

Environmental education is empowering rural youth to protect their hamlet from a luxury resort project

A write-off

Front cover of Grade 11 Geography textbook - Publisher: Yrama Widya

School textbooks in Indonesia fail to teach environmental sustainability

Environmental child soldiers

Students attending to a rehabilitated rubbish site beside their school - Credit: Kelsie Prabawa-Sear

Surabayan children are fighting to improve their local environment

An urgent need for Environmental Education

High school students in Surabaya digging biopore holes near their campus on Hari Air (Water Day) - Credit: Danau Tanu

Can Indonesia save its beauty and biodiversity through Environmental Education?

Essay: ‘Harvard’ and ‘Cambridge’ at your doorstep

Welcome to Kampoeng Inggris, Pare, East Java. (Credit: Erlinawati Graham)

Pare’s English language school grew out of a tutoring job and is now attracting thousands

Resisting limbo

Children at play at the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre - Credit: CRLC

Self-organisation amongst refugees in Indonesia

Making their way

Youth in Indonesia are facing uncertain school-to-work transition - Remco van Loenen

Indonesia needs to create better pathways from school to work

Where to now for the MDGs in Indonesia?

davis-dibley

The Millennium Development Goals addressed the basic development needs of Indonesia, but tackling poverty now requires a more complex strategy

Quantity but not quality

suryadarma

Indonesia is on track to achieve universal primary education, but questions remain about the quality of education

Platitudes of Papua

Sobaham Anderson 1

It’s easy to blame the central government for all of Papua’s problems, but it’s also inaccurate

Café culture

Café culture

The changing socio-economic status of Yogyakarta’s students threatens the survival of one of the city’s icons

Blaming Papuans

Blaming Papuans

Education is a mess in Papua’s highlands, but fault doesn’t lie with the Papuans alone

Photo essay: Positive is negative

Photo essay: Positive is negative

HIV/AIDS is posing an ever greater threat to the health and welfare of people in the highlands of Papua

Teaching remote Indonesia

Teaching remote Indonesia

A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages

The middle of nowhere

The middle of nowhere

Highland communities in Papua are demanding access to services, but there is a limit to what can be offered in the most remote settlements

Page 1 of 3

Latest Articles

A ‘powerhouse’ scholar: In memoriam Jim Schiller (1944 – 2018)

Nov 05, 2018 - Himawan Bayu Patriadi

Jim with friends and family

Photo essay: Hope in the face of disaster

Nov 02, 2018 - MELANIE FILLER & TIM BARRETTO

Source/ Melanie Filler & Tim Barretto

Palu after the tsunami

Surviving while seeking asylum

Oct 26, 2018 - GEMIMA HARVEY

Hazara asylum seeker Shiringul first fled Afghanistan to Pakistan and then when the danger spread to Pakistan, she was forced to flee again, this time to Indonesia. She said the streets outside of Kalideres immigration detention centre were her best option. Source/ Gemima Harvey

A change in Australia’s asylum policy has denied refugees in Indonesia vital support

Review: The killing season

Oct 01, 2018 - FRANK BEYER

More than 50 years on, mis-truths about the 1965-66 killings and what motivated them prevail in Indonesia. Geoffrey Robinson's and other books and films on the issue, based on archival research...

Essay: Harmony versus hate

Sep 19, 2018 - DUNCAN GRAHAM

Masykuri Bakri doesn’t fit the stereotype for a moderate Muslim leader

Subscribe to Inside Indonesia

Receive Inside Indonesia's latest articles and quarterly editions in your inbox.

Lontar Modern Indonesia

A selection of stories from the Indonesian classics and modern writers, periodically published free for Inside Indonesia readers, courtesy of Lontar

Tweets by InsideIndo