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View all search resultsStudents sit national exam amid constraints
The lack of supporting infrastructure and facilities has been a common problem across the country.
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Junior high school students sit computer-based national exams at SMP 7 state school in Padang, West Sumatra, on Monday. (Antara/Muhammad Arif Pribadi)
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undreds of junior high school students in North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, had to sit their computer-based national exams (UNBK) on Monday in temporary buildings after multiple quakes rattled the region last year.
Junior high schools throughout the country are holding the UNBK simultaneously from Monday to Thursday, while elementary schools are holding national exams.
"Out of the 34 junior high schools [in the region] holding the exams this year, up to 10 schools are holding theirs in temporary buildings after quakes destroyed their school buildings last year. However, the exams have, in general, gone well," North Lombok Education and Cultural Agency head Fauzan told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Aside from using temporary buildings, some of the junior high schools have also resorted to holding the exams at nearby senior high schools.
According to Fauzan, last year's earthquakes had ruined 90 percent of all school buildings in the region.
"The Public Works and Housing Ministry and private companies have rebuilt around 75 percent of the schools. Construction for the remainder is underway," he said.
Despite suggestions from the government for quake-stricken schools to hold paper-based exams, all of the schools in the region managed to provide students with computers, he said.
