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Bandung Newsletter September 2026

Indonesia's Independence Day | Moving Learning And Growing With Bazgym | Growing Executive Function | Investing in the People Who Lead Our School

Welcome to the June 2026 edition of our Bandung newsletter! We have lots of exciting updates and stories to share this month.​
Written by Ms Fara
Our little learners celebrated Indonesia’s 81st Independence Day with a colourful journey through Indonesian culture! The children came dressed in beautiful traditional costumes representing different cities and regions across Indonesia.

We proudly held a fun parade, giving everyone a chance to admire the unique colours, patterns, and styles of each costume. Through this experience, they were encouraged to appreciate Indonesia’s rich cultural diversity while building confidence as they proudly showed their outfits.

The celebration continued with a special flagraising ceremony, where all classes came together to sing Indonesia’s national songs and watch the Indonesian flag being raised. The children then enjoyed a variety of traditional Indonesian games, including cracker eating, tug of war, sack races, bakiak, flag obstacle courses, ping-pong ball challenges, and the classic pencil in a bottle game. These playful experiences encouraged the children to practise their gross and fine motor skills, coordination, balance, teamwork, turn-taking, and problem solving—all while having lots of fun together!

Nafas To Install Clean Air Zones in 7 iSmile Pre-School Campuses in Indonesia

As pollution in Jakarta and many other Indonesian cities continues to get worse, Nafas has been appointed as the air quality partner for iSmile Family of Schools in Indonesia and is tasked with bringing healthy air quality to 7 campuses in Permata Hijau, Menteng, Kelapa Gading, Pantai Indah Kapuk, P. Antasari (for Alam Atelier & BazGym) and Bandung. As part of the partnership, Nafas will be providing healthy air quality management, analytics & reporting as well as leading educational programs for parents across iSmile, iShine, Alam Atelier and BazGym  to continue to raise awareness about air pollution and public health.

Over 800 students attend iSmile Family of Schools, one of the top pre-schools in Jakarta, Bandung and Bali. The dedication of iSmile administration to providing the optimal learning environment for its students extends to ensuring that healthy indoor air quality levels are always maintained. 

For their schools that already have a Clean Air Zone, Nafas successfully reduced indoor air pollution by over 80% in classrooms at the Kelapa Gading campus in April 2024.  Unhealthy indoor air quality in schools provides a sub-optimal learning environment for children and long term exposure to PM2.5 reduces concentration, focus and can impair cognitive development. Nafas even published an article about this – The Smog Effect: How Air Quality Could Be Affecting Test Scores.

Clean Air Zones by Nafas are a subscription based B2B service which provides companies with air quality diagnostics, healthy air management, data analytics and real-time reporting of indoor pollution levels. The end to end service is the first of its kind in Indonesia, and already serves over 100 clients in offices, schools, small businesses and residential locations.

Interested to learn more about turning your business into a Clean Air Zone – click here. 

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