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        "msgid": "many-schools-give-students-time-off-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-11-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "Many schools give students time off",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Many schools give students time off JAKARTA (JP): Many schools in the capital have temporarily closed their doors due to social uncertainty caused by a series of student demonstrations, an official said on Thursday. \"Ten schools, including elementary and junior and senior high schools located mainly in South Jakarta, have given their students time off since Wednesday,\" Alwi Nurdin, head of the Jakarta office of the Ministry of Education and Culture, said.",
        "content": "<p>Many schools give students time off<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Many schools in the capital have temporarily<br>\nclosed their doors due to social uncertainty caused by a series<br>\nof student demonstrations, an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\"Ten schools, including elementary and junior and senior high<br>\nschools located mainly in South Jakarta, have given their<br>\nstudents time off since Wednesday,\" Alwi Nurdin, head of the<br>\nJakarta office of the Ministry of Education and Culture, said.<\/p>\n<p>Alwi said the principals of the schools decided to suspend<br>\nlessons due to the increasingly tense situation brought about by<br>\ndemonstrations and counter demonstrations against the Special<br>\nSession of the People's Consultative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Five other schools, including state senior high school SMA 6,<br>\nSMA 24 and SMA 8, also announced today that they would follow<br>\nsuit for safety's sake, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Alwi made the remarks at a ceremony for the handing over of a<br>\ndonation from an Indonesian student association in Japan to<br>\nelementary to senior high school students in Greater Jakarta,<br>\nYogyakarta, Surabaya and Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Alwi reiterated that all school principals in Jakarta were<br>\nallowed to give their students time off if they deemed the<br>\nstudents' lives could be endangered when traveling to or from<br>\nschool.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ministry had given school principals full<br>\nauthority to make the decision. (ylt)<\/p>",
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