THE law on the National Education System was finally enacted last Wednesday. The ball is now in the court of Education Minister, Professor Abdul Malik Fadjar. His department must now produce a policy that can address the grievances of groups which harbor suspicions about the new law.

This extremely sensitive issue will be a test case for the 64-year-old minister, a former rector of Muhammadiyah University in Malang. Malik Fadjar, who obta