Health & Education

January 2018

News/West Papua
Tirto.id – January 29, 2018

M. Ahsan Ridhoi – A working committee meeting on January 29 between the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission I, TNI (Indonesian military) chief Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto and Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has discussed the issue of Papuan independence.

December 2017

News/Indonesia
Detik News – December 4, 2017

Samsudhuha Wildansyah, Jakarta – Indonesian military (TNI) chief General Gatot Nurmantyo and Education and Culture Minister (Mendikbud) Muhadjir Effendy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Expanding and Improving the Quality of Education and Culture Services.

July 2017

News/Indonesia
Tempo – July 6, 2017

Danang Firmanto, Jakarta – Culture and Education Minister Muhadjir Effendy has a way to change the state of the national education system. Effendy claims that after being a minister for around one year he now has a method to improve the education sector.

July 2016

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – July 2, 2016

Kid: He's inhuman isn't he Mom? (sign reads Food and Drug Monitoring Agency)

December 2014

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – December 13, 2014

Kid: Political brawling... political dynamics... or oplosan Dad? (drum reads ‘Politics is the commander’)

April 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 17, 2013

Crate reads National Exam problems, smoke reads Performance, number plate reads (Ministry) of Education and Culture.

News/West Papua
Lensa Indonesia – April 15, 2013

A group of West Papuan students from Solidarity for Papua (SUP) held a demonstration in front of the Abu Bakar Ali Park in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on April 15.

January 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – January 18, 2013

Educators say that the government’s insistence on emphasising religious studies and citizenship education at the expense of science, social studies and English in the new elementary school curriculum – supposedly to create honest and moral students – shows how little value is placed on critical thinking and is just another example of the tendenc

November 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – November 14, 2012

1st Student: Independence is a golden bridge, you know...

2nd Student: So where’s the bridge?

February 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 22, 2012

While last month’s announcement by Fitch Ratings that Indonesia’s national sovereign rating had been raised to investment level is good news for the richest top 10% of the population who benefit from the country’s economic growth rate of 6.7%, Health Ministry data shows that the percentage of children experiencing stunted growth as a result of m