In collaboration with The Jakarta Post English-language
daily, Indonesia's Education and Culture Ministry has set up a campaign to
improve English communication skills among secondary school students in what it
calls the Newspaper in Education (NIE) programme.
In an agreement signed by both
institutions on Monday, The Jakarta Post Foundation will support the ministry’s
efforts to improve the process of learning English in 100 high schools and
vocational schools throughout the country by supplying free newspapers
published by the company in 2012.
Oil giant PT Chevron Pacific
Indonesia is taking part in the program by paying for free copies of The
Jakarta Post to be delivered to secondary schools in North Sumatra, Riau, West
Java, Central Java, East Java, Jakarta, Bali, and East Kalimantan.
Education and Culture Minister
Muhammad Nuh said in a statement that the partnership would help increase the
English literacy rate among Indonesian students, as well as improve students’
knowledge about media and current affairs.
“It is very important for students
to understand what a media company says in its publication as this will shape
their attitude toward the news,” he said.
The ministry’s Director General
for Secondary Education, Hamid Muhammad, said the program would help in the
ministry’s efforts to improve the teaching and learning of English in the
country.
“The Newspaper in Education
programme will nurture communication skills among our students, particularly in
high schools and vocational schools because the current, competence-based
English curriculum has not yet encouraged students to use their English
knowledge and skills to communicate,” he said.
Hamid said the program had
inspired the ministry to set up similar programs at other schools.
“The programme is attempting to
promote newspapers as learning resources in schools. We hope that the
collaboration will benefit students as well as teachers at these schools,” said
Jusuf Wanandi, the Post’s director.
The Jakarta Post Foundation has
been organising the NIE programme since 2007, a campaign inspired by The New
York Times’ programme that has been running uninterruptedly since 1955.
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