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Face-to-face learning resumption after meeting strict requirements

Face-to-face learning will resume in the second half of the 2020-2021 academic year, albeit after meeting the stringent ...

President calls on ministries, institutions to conduct auctions soon

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) appealed to several ministries and institutions to conduct auctions for their activities ...

President Jokowi highlights four focus areas in 2021 State Budget

President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that four areas will be prioritized in the 2021 ...

Bogor's 40 sub-districts to get 240 free Wi-Fi spots

Bogor local government is installing 240 free Wi-Fi spots in 40 sub-districts to serve locals and enable students ...

President confers honorary medals on state officials

President conferred the Mahaputra Adipradana Stars, highest civil service awards, and Bintang Jasa medals to state ...

Makarim visits Rote Ndao to check COVID-19 impact on education

Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim undertook a working visit to Rote Ndao, East Nusa Tenggara, to ...

Student deaths wake-up call for re-evaluating online schooling: KPA

Commissioner for Indonesian Children Protection (KPAI) for Education, Retno Listyarti, has said the deaths of three ...

Varsities centers of innovation amid pandemic: minister

Indonesian universities have continued to innovate amid the pandemic with lecturers and students undertaking research ...

Youth should better respond to pandemic-induced anxiety for solution

Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim invited youngsters to better respond to the anxiety triggered by ...

Manpower Ministry apportions Rp37.7 trillion for wage subsidies

Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah confirmed her ministry allocated Rp37.7 trillion as wage subsidy for 15.7 million ...

Central Java opens free virtual schools to lower dropout rate

Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has started free virtual schools for children from poor families to lower the ...

VP Amin urges expansion of e-learning by universities

Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has advocated the expansion of online learning programs by universities so ...

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Indonesia fast tracks COVID-19 vaccine development

Almost every country in the world, including Indonesia, is racing against time to develop a vaccine of its own or ...

Jokowi forms team for expediting COVID-19 vaccine development

President Joko Widodo has formed a National Team for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Vaccine Development and installed ...

Indonesia's illiteracy rate falls to 1.78% in 2019

Indonesia's illiteracy rate fell to 1.78 percent of the total population in 2019 from 1.93 percent the year before, ...