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ollowing the collapse of a school building in West Jakarta on Thursday, the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) conducted a field inspection at state junior high school SMPN 32 Jakarta on Friday morning.

Three people were reportedly injured in the incident.

Aside from the collapsed hall, the KPAI also noted that four classrooms did not meet the national education standard as they were too narrow.

It also found that the number of toilets was disproportionate to the number of students.

According to the statement released by the KPAI, the school had already requested Jakarta’s Education Agency and Tourism Agency to renovate the building in 2014. A representative from the Tourism Agency checked the school building’s condition last Monday; however, neither approved the request because of the building’s cultural heritage status. The building is said to have been built in 1880.

KPAI commissioner for education Retno Listyarti urged the city to move the students to a safer building until the school building is renovated. “It would be dangerous for the students to keep studying in a place like this,” she said in a statement.