Over 470,000 sit university admission exams<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Nearly 472,000 senior high school graduates
\nthroughout the country, excluding riot-torn provinces of Maluku,
\nNorth Maluku and Aceh, turned up for the entrance exams for state
\nuniversities on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The national admission test committee executive secretary,
\nSoemalijah Soewondo, said the students competed for approximately
\n74,000 seats at 45 universities.<\/p>\n
Results of the test will be announced on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n
The number of the participants dropped slightly by 1.8 percent
\nfrom last year's figure, 480,218, Soemalijah said.<\/p>\n
According to the current regulation, the participants are
\nallowed to choose two different faculties or universities. They
\nare also allowed to choose universities outside their hometowns.<\/p>\n
Minister of National Education Yahya Muhaimin said entrance
\ntests in Maluku would be delayed indefinitely and the state
\nPattimura University there will be divided into two following the
\ndivision of the province into Maluku and North Maluku.<\/p>\n
Most of the university campus in Ambon was razed by an armed
\nmob on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In Aceh, the test is delayed until Saturday as fire razed
\nthe Madjid Ibrahim student gymnasium hall at state Syiah Kuala
\nUniversity on Monday night, burning some 10,000 documents and the
\nexam papers.<\/p>\n
Aceh Besar police chief Superintendent Sayed Husaini said
\npreliminary investigation showed that the fire was due to a short
\nelectric circuit problem.<\/p>\n
Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta plans to accept 5,208
\nstudents, including 986 athletes and students who will be
\nrecruited through special tests held in their respective
\nprovinces.<\/p>\n
In Surabaya, 193 of the 33,510 registrants failed to turn up.
\n"The reason for their absence is still not clear," said Nadjadji
\nAnwar, who was in charge of the test.<\/p>\n
In Medan, University of North Sumatra rector, Chairuddin
\nLubis, complained many participants came late because they were
\nconfused finding the venues for the exams.<\/p>\n
In Banjarmasin, Lambung Mangkurat University discovered that
\n10 percent of 609 applicants for the special admission test
\n(PMDK) are drug addicts.<\/p>\n
"Ten percent of them, based on urine tests, are positively
\ndrugs users," Antara quoted local officials as saying.<\/p>\n
In Semarang, the test took place at the two campuses and high
\nschool buildings in the Central Java capital of
\nSemarang.(49\/50\/har\/45\/edt\/sur\/prb)<\/p>",
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