It is interesting to see that even Bloomberg News has gotten into the act of criticizing the regulators of the Indonesian TEFL industry. A syndicated article about the sheer madness of the DIKNAS regulations has now made it from New York all the way to Bangkok and Jakarta. However, the key points will not be…
A truly astonishing story has appeared in the Indonesian press today. The Education Ministry, which was formerly known as Diknas, is currently being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission. They have found that not only has the Ministry been stealing 10% of teachers’ travel allowances, amounting to trillions of rupiah, but they have even been demanding…
A rule change in the way international schools in Indonesia operate has generated confusion and frustration among education stakeholders, who say it is characteristic of the government’s lack of a global vision for the country’s education system. Under the Education Ministry regulation issued in May this year, and taking effect as of last Monday, Indonesian-owned…
The fact has been little commented on in the local media, but the Jokowi administration has just divided the old DIKNAS department in two. In place of the old DIKNAS (Education Department), there are now two new entities. The first is Dikti, which is about higher education; its full title is Direktorat Pendidikan Tinggi (Directorate…
Rent-seeking is one of the more interesting economic concepts to have emerged from the academic literature since the 1960s, but it is still a rather neglected concept in the mainstream media. Perhaps this is because the term can be rather confusing at first glance; it has nothing to do with renting or rentals in the…
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