Governor Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo is satisfied with the achievement of students who took the troubled national examinations this year, saying that better results reflected the city's better education quality.

'The students' performance is excellent because 99.85 percent of 61,000 senior high school students and 99.99 percent of vocational school students passed the national exams,' he said during his visit to the announcement of the exam results at the state senior high school SMA 8 in Tebet, South Jakarta on Friday.

This year's performance is 0.20 percent higher than 2012.

Jokowi also appreciated the way the students celebrated their graduation and said that unlike the previous years and other regions, students were wearing traditional costumes and no students were involved in uniform scribbling or brawls.

Students cheerfully greeted Jokowi upon his arrival at the school and many queued to take photos with him.

The governor said he also found a similar situation when he was visiting the SMA 4 senior high school.

Head of the Jakarta education agency Taufik Yudi Mulyanto shared the same happiness because despite the problems in the organization of the natinal exams, the graduation rate was higher than last year.

'It is incredible because only 0.15 percent or 73 senior high school students and 0.1 percent or two of 64,000 senior vocational schools failed the exams.'

Taufik also said as many as 74 high schools in the city were instructed to have their students wear traditional costumes to receive their graduation to prevent them from scribbling on their uniforms and from being involved in unreasonable activities such as bike racing on crowded streets and brawls. (JP/hrl)

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