Photo file (JP/Ricky Yudhistira)
As many as 39,179 junior high school students across Jakarta have failed the national exam, which was conducted simultaneously last month, city authorities said Thursday.
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said this year’s graduation rate reached only 71 percent of a total 135,236 students who took the exams. The rate dropped significantly from last year’s mark of 99.8 percent, he added.
“I have received a report that says Jakarta ranks quite low [in terms of school graduation rates]. I’m very concerned and unhappy with the result,” Fauzi said on the sidelines of a ceremony to inaugurate 33 new school buildings at SMAN 77 Jakarta state high school in East Jakarta.
Fauzi said he hoped the graduation rate would increase with remedial tests that will be conducted on May 17-20.
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