Education

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

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

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

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

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

People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

A home schooling project in Kendari provides a new kind of early learning experience

A whole-school effort is needed to realise a vision of multicultural education in an Islamic boarding school

The privileged are increasingly opting for international schools where students learn the good and the bad of multiculturalism

The life and work of an Islamic teacher in Aceh shows that the struggle for gender equality is about much more than syariah.

A unique pesantren, founded and led by an internationally recognised Indonesian calligrapher, attracts men and women from all over the archipelago

The value of children’s paid work on Lombok’s tobacco plantations presents a challenge to emotive arguments for the wholesale banning of child labour

  Better assessment could provide the answer to problems caused by the rapid expansion of places available in Indonesian public medical schools

Indonesia’s premier university needs to take action to improve facilities for disabled students

Links to Indonesian schools and universities remain strong in East Timor

Images of highlanders at home and abroad

Papuan footballers score goals against HIV.

A culture of violence in schools makes life tough for kids

Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough