JAKARTA: The Covid-19 pandemic shut schools across the archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and amplified inequality. But it also provided an impetus for a sweeping reform in Indonesia’s school system according to Education Minister Nadiem Makarim.
As the country battled one of Asia’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks and schools remained closed, students in regions with little to no access to Internet and reliable electricity suffered the most.
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