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        "id": 1008725,
        "msgid": "teachers-try-to-keep-paint-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-06-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "Teachers try to keep paint",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Teachers try to keep paint out of blackboard jungle JAKARTA (JP): For the second time in less than a week, school uniforms covered with ink and paint were visible on the streets of Jakarta when junior high schools (SMP) throughout the city announced the results of final exams yesterday. The announcement was greeted with euphoria by the young teenage graduates who proceeded to perform the customary scrawling on school uniforms.",
        "content": "<p>Teachers try to keep paint<br>\nout of blackboard jungle<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): For the second time in less than a week, school<br>\nuniforms covered with ink and paint were visible on the streets<br>\nof Jakarta when junior high schools (SMP) throughout the city<br>\nannounced the results of final exams yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was greeted with euphoria by the young<br>\nteenage graduates who proceeded to perform the customary<br>\nscrawling on school uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>The number of junior high school graduates in the city reached<br>\nover 135,000, the bulk of whom will continue on to various high<br>\nschools (SMA).<\/p>\n<p>Though, in general, the graduation atmosphere went smoothly,<br>\nan act of vandalism marred the day at one junior high school.<\/p>\n<p>Students at state junior high school (SMPN) 19 in Kebayoran<br>\nBaru, South Jakarta, exhibited their joy in a more destructive<br>\nmanner by painting buses with graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>This type of incident had actually been anticipated by the<br>\nteachers at SMPN 19 who, prior to the announcement, gathered all<br>\nthe students inside the school and confiscated marking pens and<br>\nspray paints.<\/p>\n<p>Much to the chagrin of their teachers, the criminally<br>\nindustrious students had prepared a contingency plan to obtain<br>\npaint and used it to randomly spray passing public<br>\ntransportation.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately there were no similar reports from other schools.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools avoided the \"graffiti incidents\" by taking<br>\nalternative measures to the graduation announcement.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Antara, SMPN 216 in Central Jakarta sent the<br>\ngraduation announcements by post to each student's home thus<br>\navoiding any outburst of joy that might lead to vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>SMP \"17 Augustus 1945,\" a private school in South Jakarta,<br>\ndeterred an unpleasant scene by instructing their students to<br>\nwear traditional ethnic costumes on graduation day.<\/p>\n<p>\"The costumes not only dodges the usual scrawling of uniforms<br>\nbut more importantly it installs a sense of nationalism,\"<br>\nheadmaster Dyani Pitoyo said. (mds)<\/p>",
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