The COVID-10 pandemic has caused a shift in the way we do things, with our homes now being the center for many of our activities. This situation is a new reality for how education is being conducted, including early childhood education (PAUD).

Teachers, students and parents are all living a “new normal” of learning by using information technology and electronic media so that teaching and learning can still take place. And in such a context, all parties are expected to be able to optimally carry out their respective roles in the teaching and learning process.

The South China Morning Post featured an in-depth look into how Sukanto Tanoto thinks and plans to ensure a legacy of sustainable success and impact in the areas of business and philanthropy. He applies his long-term strategy in business similarly to his development of a family office.

With the family office sitting above the core business and supervising it, Sukanto Tanoto is able to strengthen the foundations for business succession and longevity. This strategy also allowed for decision-making to accommodate values and longer-term thinking - crucial ingredients for a sustainable company

“While I was running the core business, I mainly considered growth and profit. But when I started to concentrate on the family office, I began to focus on sustainability as well as growth,” Mr Tanoto said in the interview.

SDG Academy Indonesia was launched on Tuesday, 8 October at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Annual Summit 2019 in Jakarta. The SDG Academy will serve as an inclusive learning platform for government and non-government stakeholders and will help bolster the capacity of all its stakeholders and fast-track SDG progress across Indonesia. The Academy will serve as the SDG Knowledge Hub in Indonesia.

Sateri became the world's largest viscose producer when it acquired debt-burdened Jiangsu Xiangsheng Viscose Fiber Co., Ltd. The acquisition, its fourth viscose mill, places Sateri as the world's largest viscose producer at 1.1 million metric tons per annum.

Renamed Sateri Jiangsu, the viscose mill was opened on 9 May 2019.

The personal experiences of Tanoto Foundation founder and successful entrepreneur, Sukanto Tanoto, have helped shaped the Foundation’s philanthropic approach. The combination of the challenges faced in his early years and later in his career has given him the belief that nation-building through philanthropy requires both the systematic creation of equitable access to educational opportunities and a sustained, collaborative, growth-minded approach to its implementation.

Founded by Sukanto Tanoto and his wife Tinah Bingei Tanoto in 1981, the Tanoto Foundation has grown to take on challenges in human capital development. It now looks at education as a complex intersecting issue of governance, wherein effective integrated implementation can effect transformative changes.