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View all search resultsGovt expands Sekolah Rakyat rollout despite challenges with existing schools
While the government focuses on scaling up the Sekolah Rakyat program, many existing schools continue to face multiple challenges, including low enrollment, student dropouts and staff shortages.
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Students of the SRMP 9 Sekolah Rakyat junior high school at the Wyata Guna center in Bandung, West Java try out their bunk beds on July 14 after attending the opening of an orientation program. (JP/Adi Marsiela)
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he government is pressing ahead with the expansion of its ambitious Sekolah Rakyat (community school) program, increasing the number of locations and stepping up renovations despite persistent issues at several newly established boarding schools.
The Pamekasan administration on Madura Island, East Java, is racing to complete renovations on a former nursing academy building, which will serve as the site of a new Sekolah Rakyat Junior High School set to open next month.
“The Social Affairs Ministry has deployed construction workers from outside Madura to help speed up the renovation. We aim to finish the project by the end of the month,” said Herman Hidayat Santoso, head of the Pamekasan Social Affairs Agency, as quoted by Kompas.com.
In Sumenep Regency, East Java, nearly 100 construction workers are converting the local civil servant training center into a boarding school for Sekolah Rakyat students.
Despite the school being scheduled to open in the first week of August, renovation progress has only reached 60 percent, officials said.
Regional administrations in Kebumen, Central Java, Kepahiang in Bengkulu and Boalemo in Gorontalo announced on Thursday plans to renovate existing government buildings as temporary sites for Sekolah Rakyat campuses set to open in September.
“We will soon renovate one of our buildings as a temporary site for the Sekolah Rakyat program. We have also prepared a plot of land in Buayan village for a permanent campus,” said Kebumen Regent Lilis Nuryani, as quoted by Tempo.co.
