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        "id": 1068156,
        "msgid": "c-java-junior-high-grads-to-skip-high-school-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-11-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "C. Java junior high grads to skip high school",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "C. Java junior high grads to skip high school Agus Maryono, The Jakarta Post, Banjarnegara Eighty percent of 10,190 junior high school graduates in the Central Java regency of Banjarnegara did not continue their studies at senior high school this year because of economic problems, says a local official.",
        "content": "<p>C. Java junior high grads to skip high school<\/p>\n<p>Agus Maryono, The Jakarta Post, Banjarnegara<\/p>\n<p>Eighty percent of 10,190 junior high school graduates in the<br>\nCentral Java regency of Banjarnegara did not continue their<br>\nstudies at senior high school this year because of economic<br>\nproblems, says a local official.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Banjanegara Regent Hadi Supeno said that most junior<br>\nhigh school graduates were forced to work on the family farm<br>\ninstead of going to school because of poverty and their parents<br>\nlow awareness of the importance of education.<\/p>\n<p>\"Only 20 percent of graduates of 87 junior high schools in the<br>\nregency went to senior high school and this will certainly affect<br>\nthe quality of human resources and preserve the poverty in the<br>\nregency,\" he said<\/p>\n<p>Hadi said that many local people could not send their children<br>\nto school because of their economic circumstance and many others<br>\nhad yet to realize the importance of the education program toward<br>\nimproving social welfare and social status.<\/p>\n<p>\"Many parents have seen their school-age children as assets to<br>\nhelp grow their plants on their farmland and have decided sending<br>\nthem to school is a waste of money,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the local administration planned to launch an<br>\neducation and health campaign in rural areas in the regency next<br>\nyear to improve local people's awareness in the education and<br>\nhealth fields.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the regency has been hit by endemic tropical<br>\ndiseases such as malaria, dengue fever and skin infections.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the local administration shows that of 881,300<br>\npeople in the regency, 79,200 had never gone to school, 137,700<br>\nwere elementary school graduates and dropouts, 66,000 had<br>\ngraduated from junior high school, 14,600 had graduated from<br>\nsenior high school and only 3,200 had graduated from universities<br>\nand academies. Of 273 villages in the regency, 174 were poor and<br>\nunderdeveloped.<\/p>",
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