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Bogor regency has highest number of damaged schools
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For the sake of a brighter future: YAPPIKA-ActionAID ambassador Reza Rahardian (second left) hands over a road map for the acceleration of repairs on damaged schools in Bogor, on Aug.28.
(JP/Theresia Sufa)
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ogor regency is home to the highest number of damaged schools in Indonesia, due largely to an insufficient budget for infrastructure development, inaccurate data collection and poor construction monitoring, according to a joint initiative between the Civil Society Alliance for Democracy (YAPPIKA) and ActionAid.
“A roadmap to accelerate repairs of damaged school has been launched to help improve the education infrastructure of Bogor regency,” YAPPIKA-ActionAid executive director Fransiska Fitri said during a public dialogue on Monday.
The event also launched a book that recorded key issues in the advocacy of safe and comfortable schools.
Jointly composed by YAPPIKA-ActionAid, the Indonesia Legislative Observer Committee (KOPEL), the Bogor regency administration and the Bogor Regency Legislative Council (DPRD), the road map contains strategies to complete the repairs of damaged classrooms by maximizing the use of regional resources, local budgets and the involvement of private entities and the public.
According to the 2016 Bogor Basic Education Data (Dapodik), 8,620 state elementary school classrooms and 1,407 state junior high school classrooms in the regency show various levels of damage.
Based on 2016 Bogor Education Agency data, 188,349 students are forced to attend lessons under unsafe and uncomfortable conditions.
“Meanwhile, 140,820 other children have to carry out learning activities in partitioned-classrooms and on the terrace of local residents’ houses,” Fransiska said.
Bogor Regency Education and Culture Agency head Lutfi Syam conceded that because of budget constraints, his agency could only build schools that must be renovated after 10 years of use. (yon/ebf)
