Launched in 2022, the “Freedom Curriculum” reduces content load and gives schools autonomy. Project-based learning replaces rote memorization. For example: instead of memorizing volcanoes, students build a mini water filtration system after a flood case study.
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For a foreigner visiting an Indonesian school, the most striking features are not the test scores, but the —students singing pop songs before class, the intense pride of wearing the Pramuka uniform, and the communal eating at recess where rich and poor share fried rice.