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Schools set anti-graft curriculum

Published Date: March 10, 2010

Tags: anti-corruption commission, anti-graft curriculum, Catholic university

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Students protesting corruption in a recent rally in Jakarta

A Catholic university based in Semarang, Central Java, is working together with the national anti-corruption commission in drafting an anti-graft curriculum to be taught in all elementary and junior high schools in Indonesia.

“The anti-corruption curriculum will be drafted by teachers working for schools run by Pangudi Luhur Foundation in cooperation with the National Commission for Corruption Eradication,” Budi Widianarko, the rector of the university, told UCA News on March 8.

According to the layman, Soegijapranata Catholic University is the only institution of higher education in the country working with the commission to produce the anti-corruption curriculum.

He said 14 teachers, three lecturers, and a member of the commission staff will travel to the Netherlands in early April to attend a two-week training course called Enhancing the Capacity and Competence of Teachers in Values Based on Raising Awareness on Anti-corruption Issues.

The anti-graft curriculum will then later be drafted after the training at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, he added.

Widianarko said the training course will expand upon a similar course - Enhancing Civil Society and Public Awareness in Combating Corruption - which two teachers, 11 lecturers, and several commission staff-members attended in 2005.

“Learning modules from this training were then taught in schools belonging to the Pangudi Luhur Foundation in Semarang as well as other Catholic educational foundations and an Islamic educational foundation in Indonesia,” he said.

The rector said the learning modules being taught are unique because they include anti-corruption values such as honesty, justice, courage, simplicity and survival.

“Such values are included in various subjects like the Indonesian language and natural and social sciences to improve the effectiveness of learning about anti-corruption without increasing burdens on teachers and students,” he continued.

Meanwhile, Djokopranoto, who heads the Association of Catholic Higher Institutions (APTIK), praised the initiative.

“The process of education on anti-corruption must be instilled into a student’s mind from the beginning. I hope other Catholic universities in Indonesia will take part,” he told UCA News.

Source: Catholic schools set anti-graft curriculum (UCAN)

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