Indonesian presidential hopeful Anies Baswedan is acutely aware of the perils of allowing enthusiasm to get the better of prudence.
As education minister in President Joko Widodo’s first Cabinet that began work in October 2014, Mr Anies wrote directly to some 215,000 school principals across Indonesia. While he could frame policies, success lay entirely in the hands of the heads of schools, he wrote.
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