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  "id": 12748951,
  "title": "Analysis: Free education, but at what cost?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/analysis-free-education-but-at-what-cost-12748951",
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  "summary": "President Prabowo Subianto wants Indonesians to enjoy free education from kindergarten through university. Few would dispute the objective of making education more accessible. The harder question is how the government will pay for it. The state has yet to fully fund a Constitutional Court order to extend free compulsory basic education to private schools, even as Prabowo adds free university…",
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        "outlet": "Adom Online",
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      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Jakarta Post",
        "title": "Analysis: Free education, but at what cost?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/analysis-free-education-but-at-what-cost",
        "published": "2026-10-08T00:00:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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