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        "id": 1427820,
        "msgid": "180000-youths-not-in-school-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-03-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "180,000 youths not in school",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "180,000 youths not in school JAKARTA (JP): A total of 187,212 youngsters aged between 15 and 21 did not attend school at all last year, an official has said. Bahar Laut, an official of the city's social and political affairs directorate, said on Friday that the youngsters were facing the same dilemma as 60,000 other poor children between ages seven and 15.",
        "content": "<p>180,000 youths not in school<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): A total of 187,212 youngsters aged between 15<br>\nand 21 did not attend school at all last year, an official has<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Bahar Laut, an official of the city's social and political<br>\naffairs directorate, said on Friday that the youngsters were<br>\nfacing the same dilemma as 60,000 other poor children between<br>\nages seven and 15.<\/p>\n<p>\"This means that there are at least 247,200 youngsters and<br>\nkids here who do not study in a school because they are too<br>\npoor,\" Bahar said, urging the city administration to pay more<br>\nattention to their fate.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of the 60,000 children cannot afford send them to<br>\nschool.<\/p>\n<p>\"They feel that once kids finish elementary school, they want<br>\nto go to senior high school and then on to college,\" Bahar said.<\/p>\n<p>\"When parents don't have money, they will not allow their<br>\nchildren to even dream of school... so they tell them to forget<br>\nabout it.\"<\/p>\n<p>City councilor Agus Waluyo also said that aside from 8,156<br>\nschoolchildren who dropped out of school this year due to the<br>\neconomic crisis, it was feared another 87,570 would follow suit<br>\nin the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Agus, quoting data from the Ministry of Education and Culture,<br>\nsaid that out of the 87,570 students feared to drop out, 35,265<br>\nwould be elementary schoolchildren, 29,605 would be from junior<br>\nhigh school and 22,700 from senior high school. (ylt)<\/p>",
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