M Niaz Asadullah

Indonesia mengelola jaringan madrasah (sekolah berbasis agama Islam) yang terbesar di dunia. Sekolah-sekolah ini telah berperan besar dalam memberikan akses pendidikan bagi anak perempuan, dan bisa jadi model yang baik bagi pemerintah Taliban. (ANTARA FOTO/Sahrul Manda Tikupadang)

Taliban bisa belajar dari sistem madrasah di Indonesia untuk memperluas akses sekolah bagi perempuan di Afganistan

Indonesia bisa jadi model yang baik bagi pemerintah Taliban terkait bagaimana suatu negara mayoritas Muslim maupun organisasi keagamaan dapat memperluas akses pendidikan bagi anak perempuan.
Indonesia runs the world’s largest network of madrasas (Islamic schools). They have contributed significantly to girls’ enrolment, and can serve as a model for the Taliban government. (ANTARA FOTO/Sahrul Manda Tikupadang)

Fostering girls’ education will be challenging under a Taliban regime, but Afghanistan can learn a lot from Indonesia

Indonesia can serve as an important model for the Taliban of how Muslim nations and faith-based organisations can play a big role in expanding girls’ education.
A child in a poor and isolated village in Rote Island, East Nusa Tenggara. (Shtterstock/Reezky Pradata)

Without intervention, model shows COVID‑19 will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty

Bappenas conducted a simulation to predict how COVID-19 will impact poverty in Indonesia. Without intervention, the pandemic will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty by the end of 2020.
Young children pass the time in their riverside shanty town on the banks of the heavily-polluted Ciliwung River. (Dewi Putra/Shutterstock)

What can Indonesia learn from past policies to prevent another poverty hike during the pandemic?

COVID19 threatens to reverse years of Indonesia’s positive trends in poverty alleviation. We highlight lessons from past policies to prevent another poverty hike during the pandemic.
Potret seorang anak di suatu desa yang miskin dan terisolasi di Pulau Rote, Nusa Tenggara Timur. (Shtterstock/Reezky Pradata)

Riset: tanpa intervensi, COVID‑19 akan membuat setidaknya 3,6 juta orang Indonesia jatuh miskin

BAPPENAS melakukan simulasi untuk memproyeksikan dampak COVID19 terhadap kemiskinan di Indonesia. Tanpa intervensi, pandemi ini akan membuat setidaknya 3.6 juta penduduk jatuh miskin.
Sekumpulan anak bermain di sisi Sungai Ciliwung yang penuh pencemaran. (Dewi Putra/Shutterstock)

Bagaimana belajar dari masa lalu bisa mencegah angka kemiskinan naik selama pandemi COVID‑19

COVID19 dapat membalikkan tren positif puluhan tahun penuntasan kemiskinan di Indonesia. Terdapat beberapa pelajaran dari kebijakan terdahulu untuk meredam kenaikan angka kemiskinan selama pandemi.
Jeffrey Sachs: ‘we need to press governments to follow through on what they’ve promised’. Max Rossi/Reuters

Jeffrey Sachs on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – ‘we need a victory of ideas’

Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.
Many Muslim nations fare poorly for gender equity, but there are steps they can take and examples they can follow to make sure girls are properly educated. Flickr/Nevil Zaveri

Gender equity in schools in Muslim countries: it can be done

Muslim countries worldwide have problems with gender equality. They dominate the bottom ten countries in the Global Gender Gap Report and none of the ten most successful countries offering equal opportunities…

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