Ministry of National Stupidity

You require your children to eat certain foods. But unknown to you, your servant cuts the shopping budget and buys bad quality food. The result? Your children become victims, consuming necessary but poisonous food.

There is no other analogy that best resembles the case of bad quality schoolbooks published by the Ministry of National Education in the last five years.

At a cost of Rp1.4 trillion -- mostly loans from the World Bank – the

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