Jakarta, Attanwir News
The country's education sector is set to receive a lump sum of Rp 224 trillion (US$24.64 billion) or 20 percent of the total state budget for 2009, the government said Friday (15/8).

"What is left now is organizing the exact fund allocation since the education sector doesn't just cover the Education Ministry, but also the regions as well," State Minister for National Development Planning Paskah Suzetta told the press at the House of Representatives on Friday.

Copenhagen, Attanwir News

A Danish TV station said Tuesday it has chosen an Iraqi-born woman as winner of the Miss Headscarf 2008 competition, as the Nordic country debates Islamic traditions in the aftermath of a deadly attack on its embassy. Foxnews.com reported.

Judges picked 18-year-old Huda Falah from photographs of 46 contestants in an Internet-based pageant organized by public broadcaster DR1's teenage show. Falah was chosen because the light blue Islamic headscarf was "a fantastic and shocking color," said Uffe Buchhardt, one of the judges.