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        "id": 1098937,
        "msgid": "schools-told-to-replace-the-monday-day-off-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-01-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Schools told to replace the Monday 'day off'",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Schools told to replace the Monday 'day off' JAKARTA (JP): Director-General for Primary and Secondary Education Indra Djati Sidi on Tuesday asked schools, which halted their activities over possible unrest on Monday, to replace the \"sudden day off\" to meet the minimum 245 active school days. \"We're not supposed to have a holiday every time there is some political tension in the country ... but I understand yesterday's (Jan. 15) situation,\" Indra Djati told the media on Tuesday.",
        "content": "<p>Schools told to replace the Monday 'day off'<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Director-General for Primary and Secondary<br>\nEducation Indra Djati Sidi on Tuesday asked schools, which halted<br>\ntheir activities over possible unrest on Monday, to replace the<br>\n\"sudden day off\" to meet the minimum 245 active school days.<\/p>\n<p>\"We're not supposed to have a holiday every time there is some<br>\npolitical tension in the country ... but I understand yesterday's<br>\n(Jan. 15) situation,\" Indra Djati told the media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Indra also said that better coordination between the school<br>\nauthorities and the security forces must be prepared in the<br>\nfuture so that \"children's schooling hours will not be<br>\nsacrificed\".<\/p>\n<p>Therefore the school headmasters who had their teaching<br>\nactivities halted on Monday must replace the school day taking it<br>\nfrom the next possible official school holiday, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of possible unrest over the planned<br>\nmobilization of both supporters and opponents of President<br>\nAbdurrahman Wahid, at least 14 schools in Central and South<br>\nJakarta halted their activities on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We understand that parents are concerned about their children<br>\nand there were schools which opted to give Monday off,\" Jakarta's<br>\nchief of the Ministry of Education office Alwi Nurdin said.<\/p>\n<p>\"However, those schools will have to recover the school day<br>\nwhich can be taken from holidays prior to the national<br>\nexamination test or other possible holidays,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Principal of SMU 8 state senior high school in South Jakarta,<br>\nIda Hasida, however, said that her school did not give the<br>\nstudents an entirely free day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"On Saturday our teachers had given the pupils assignments and<br>\nhomework that were supposed to be discussed today (Tuesday). We<br>\ndid not just let them have an 'empty' day off,\" Ida said.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the \"holiday issue\", Indra Djati Sidi said the<br>\nplanned joint date of the National Exams (Ebtanas) and National<br>\nUniversity Entrance Test (UMPTN) has been intensively discussed<br>\nand \"there would be no technical problems\".<\/p>\n<p>\"The idea is to let the students take the whole exams in one<br>\nperiod so they do not have to study twice. The test materials,<br>\nhowever, will be different from the previous year as both the<br>\ntests have different goals,\" Indra said. (edt)<\/p>",
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