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An Indonesian presidential spokesman has stated that the President has called on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to investigate alleged corruption involving the Education and Culture Deputy Minister for Culture.

Former inspector general of the Ministry of Education and Culture has been accused of embezzling travel funds. The former inspector general will be attending the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta.

The Ministry of Education and Culture is investigating a watchdog's allegation of possible corruption during the tender process of the national exam printing. The call for investigation of the tender process came after the national exam was postponed in 11 provinces when one of the companies that won the printing tender failed to deliver the test on time.

Following a discussion with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the National Education Ministry announced a plan to include an anti-corruption module in the 2011 curriculum.

Education agency officials denied a graft allegation in the distribution of funds from the central government and the city administration under the School Operational Aids and Education Operational Aids schemes.

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.

A scandal involving 49 students who sought places in an Egypt's prestigious university has been revealed. Instead of enrolling in the promised university, the students ended up in Malaysia where 15 were discovered doing odd jobs to support themselves. Moreover in what may be a bureaucratic cross-proposes the Indonesia's Ministry of national education is not in charge of verifying the student's process because is the Ministry of religious affaires the one responsible for students who apply to Islamic Universities abroad.

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.