Anticorruption to be taught in schools starting this year

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 03/09/2012

Anticorruption studies will be included in the curriculum at all levels of education starting this year, an official says.

Newly appointed Education and Cultural Ministry inspector general Haryono Umar, who is a former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader, said that the idea to insert anticorruption values into teaching and learning activities had been discussed since 2010. This year the ministry is finally ready to implement the plan.

The ministry, working with the KPK, has planned to conduct training-of-trainer activities at the university level next Monday, while training of trainers at the early education to high school levels will be carried out around the middle of this year.

“The materials for the training of trainers at the early education to high school levels will be completed at the end of this month,” Haryono said Friday at his office in Jakarta.

Haryono was inaugurated as the inspector general by Education and Cultural Minister Mohammad Nuh on Friday, kompas.com reported. (swd)