Parents Talk: Education for What?
A majority of parents of children in primary and secondary schools surveyed by CampusAsia think the main purpose of education is merely to prepare their children for immediate employment after graduation. Although this commonly-held view is not surprising, it reflects a shallow understanding of the true goals of education.
By Hermanto Lim.
Pornographers Strike Back
As a minister plans a crack down on web-based obscenity, he is targeted by Indonesian pornographers. An illegitimate offshoot of democracy has been unbridled freedom to promote the flesh industry under the guise of exercising a basic human right.
By Addensa Hanys Salmi
‘Sex Must Only Be Practiced in Marriage’
Rector of the University of Pelita Harapan, Jonathan Parapak, points out that sex is a gift from God; an exercise linked exclusively in holiness with procreation. Parapak stressed how family education must be enhanced to avoid abuse of the sexual instinct. He emphasized particularly the need for parents to serve as role models for children.
By Jeniffer Filly Sumakyu
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Encouraging Free
Sex Must
Be Scrapped
from the Mass Media
Chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) Amidhan Shaberah says that a policy to distribute condoms to schools is an official invitation for students to practice free sex. The chief ulema tells safe sex is doesn’t need condoms; it comes by confining sex within marriages recognized by religion.
Secularism Poisons Indonesian Society’s Way of Life
Chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI), Amidhan Shaberah, suggests scholars are becoming increasingly secularized through advocating Western ideologies that refuse to acknowledge God’s hegemony over mankind.
By Nandi Nanti
Editor's NoteBy Adrianus Mooy
Indonesia’s recent theater of practical politics has provided little constructive “schooling” for students of socio-political sciences. The scenarios and casting underpinning this political fiasco include few role models for the younger generation to emulate.
Publisher's Diary By Tanri Abeng
As students across the archi-pelago anxiously fix their eyes on the National Exams in March, one very important issue has loomed large—the need to have a transformational instead of transactional system of education.
OutlookBy Wim Tangkilisan
I recently reviewed memorable quotes from among some of the world’s greatest leaders; people who have engraved their reputations on the golden pages of history. The quotes I have chosen are quotes related to what is now believed to be Indonesia’s biggest need: leadership, stewardship, and statesmanship at all levels of the administrative establishment.