Unspun

Prof. Yohanes Surya, who dedicates his life to training Indonesian children to compete in  brainy international competitions, has just sms'd to say that Surya Bonai from SMAN 5 Jayapura has won the gold medal in the international competition called "The First Syep to Nobel Prize in Chemistry".

Well done but Surya is not the only student to make Indonesia proud in such competitions. Indonesian studets have also done well in international physics andmath competitions.

Which raises a couple of questions:  Why are Indonnesian so able to win such prizes consistently when the education system is so bad? If Indonesians can do so well with so little support, shouldn't the government prioritize support in this area?  If Indonesia's education system were better, would Indonesians do even much better?