6,100 poor students need aid

6,100 poor students need aid

BOGOR: More than 6,100 elementary school students from 30
subdistricts in Bogor regency need financial help because the
poor economic condition of their families.

Nurhadiaty, head of the basic education office of the town,
said that Bogor also was in need of more than 800 teachers.

She said that there were 1,670 teachers in 282 elementary
schools with 2,478 classrooms and 94,500 students. This year it
would only be able to recruit 300 teachers with its current
budget, all of whom will be hired on a contract basis.

Nurhadiaty said the administration had provided aid for 4,625
poor students. Each of them receives Rp 70,000 cash as well as
stationery worth Rp 50,000. The parents of another 1,499 students
were given Rp 80,000 each.

The aid, according to Nurhadiaty, is far from adequate to meet
all their needs. Her office calculated the total cost of the
needs and decided that each of the poor students needed Rp
360,000 a year, but the administration had not allocated that
much in the budget, apparently due to other financial
priorities.--JP

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Greater-Mint-Peruri
Mint employees demand pay rise
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Mint employees demand pay rise

JAKARTA: Some 100 employees of the state-owned mint, Perum
Peruri, staged a demonstration on Monday at its office on Jl.
Faletehan, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, demanding a salary hike
of 100 percent.

The workers, grouped in the company's labor union, also urged
the company to be transparent with its financial reports as they
alleged there had been some manipulation conducted by the
accounting department. They also demanded loans for housing as
well as water and electricity allowances.

The coordinator of the rally, Imam, told detik.com that their
salary was far below the budget allocated by Bank Indonesia.

For instance, he said, the basic salary of a new employee who
graduated from high school was Rp 800,000.

The company's management, however, said the demand to double
the salary was unreasonable. Its spokesman, Zachrudin, said that
the take-home pay of a new employee was Rp 1.4 million, not
including overtime or other benefits.

One of the directors, TM Karnadi, said that the company would
suffer if their demands were met because the pension fund and
cash flow would be severely affected. --JP

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Jakarta-Dekel
City to pay Dekel stipends in April
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City to pay Dekel stipends in April

JAKARTA: The city administration announced on Monday that it
would disburse funds to all subdistrict councils (Dekel) to cover
their members' stipends in April.

"I guarantee that the allowances will be paid in April,"
Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo said when visiting Slipi subdistrict
in West Jakarta.

The city's subdistrict council members have not received their
monthly stipends of Rp 500,000 each and a meeting attendance
allowance of Rp 200,000 for the last three months.

Fauzi was quoted by BeritaJakarta.com, the city's official
website, as saying that the city administration will also
continue to distribute what it calls the PMDKE/P2KP fund (special
funds to empower poor people in all subdistricts) through the
subdistrict councils as there was as yet no better way of doing
it.

"But if any of you know of a better way of distributing and
managing the special fund, then please tell us," he told Slipi
residents.

Much of the money paid out from the special fund in many
subdistricts has been embezzled by local officials and members of
the subdistrict councils.--JP