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  • Newspaper

    Educating against corruption

    Indonesia

    Press

    Krissy Dwyer - Jakarta Global

    Anticorruption efforts are by no means a new concept in Indonesia. But since the 1950s, corruption has been mostly investigated and prosecuted, while preventative methods have been overlooked. A new collaboration involving more than 100 universities across the archipelago wants to change that.

  • Newspaper

    Cleaning up higher education

    Indonesia

    Press

    David Jardine - University World News

    Indonesia's National Board for Higher Education Accreditation has announced its determination to clean up a sector riddled with bad practices. The board has set 2012 as its target for ridding universities of unaccredited undergraduate courses.

  • Newspaper

    Corruption in the education sector is still rampant

    Indonesia

    Press

    Erwida Maulia - PPATK

    The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) says corruption in the education sector is still rampant and that the government must take action to stop the practices.The watchdog's coordinator for public services monitoring Ade Irawan told a press conference here Wednesday that corruption was commonplace throughout the republic's education institutions.

  • Newspaper

    Deregulation of higher education

    Indonesia

    Press

    David Jardine - University World News

    The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia proposed a bill to further deregulate the Nation's universities. But the privatization of leading universities will lead, according to the Indonesia Corruption Watch, to the exclusion of the children from less well-off families. The high costs of university entrance and passage in the way have indeed tended to either reduce or eliminate students from the poorer provinces of Indonesia. Major corruption cases break out in Indonesia on a regular basis and there is strong evidence that higher university tuition fees increased corruption in the sector.

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