Multilating the Tree of Knowledge
Government schoolbooks contain many mistakes, are sloppily compiled, low quality and spread misleading information. Approximately12 million junior high schoolers – especially the poor ones – are the victims.
October 29, 2000
With funding to the tune of Rp.1.4 trillion, from a World Bank loan and the state budget, the books certainly do not come cheap.
How can this have happened then? A TEMPO investigation team discovered indications of corruption and collusion between officials at the Ministry of National Education, which is in charge of the scheme, and the publishers.
Who says diligence makes you clever? Immersing themselves in school textbooks produces an adv
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