Edition 102: Oct-Dec 2010 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Learning to belong

Educational efforts are being made around the country to enable minorities to feel they belong and to teach majorities that they should value the diversity of Indonesia

Some inspirational efforts are being made to promote inter-religious understanding, but state schools are way behind

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

Gender favouritism and religious discrimination cause problems at a vocational school

Malay arts are offering multicultural communities new avenues for exploring identity and citizenship

Elite Christian schools in Indonesia can become places where religious, ethnic and class identities are heightened, particularly in relation to the nation's ethnic Chinese

A new Chinese school tries to promote 'universal' Confucian values

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

Learning to belong

Teaching religious tolerance

Vision is not enough

Vocational schools for all?

The poetry of Malay multiculturalism

Affirming difference

Cautiously promoting humanism

Educating global citizens?

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