Bekasi gives access to drop-out students

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 07/03/2006 4:35 PM | Jakarta

BEKASI: The Bekasi administration has instructed operators of all junior high schools to allocate half of their capacity to students from poor families.

Mayor Akhmad Zurfaih said last week the administration would provide a subsidy of Rp 500,000 to each student who had previously dropped out but wanted to continue schooling.

""The schools are not allowed to collect any fees from the poor students,"" he said.

Currently, there are about 1,600 junior high school students who have dropped out in Bekasi.

""We don't want the program misused ... We will collect data from each subdistrict to make sure that targeted students are eligible for the assistance,"" Akhmad said. --JP

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