28,000 to start apprenticeships

28,000 to start apprenticeships

JAKARTA (JP): About 28 high school students will participate
in the apprenticeship programs organized by the city education
office to teach practical skills during the current month-long
holiday.

They have been channeled to various companies where they will
work from June 19 to July 15. More than 50,000 students
registered for the program but only 28,000 were admitted.

"We wanted all of them to be placed but the opportunities are
limited and we cannot force companies to admit all of them," the
spokesman for the education office Hadis Hadiahnegara said
Tuesday.

He said that some of the students were admitted to do
apprenticeships in government offices.

The program is also meant to focus their leisure time and
energies on productive purposes so that they will avoid doing
"negative things" that cause social problems. (29)