979 graduated from Polytechnic Institute

JAKARTA: Nearly 1000 students from the Jakarta Polytechnic Institute graduated from its three-year diploma program on Saturday.

The 979 students comprised part of the total 3,568 students studying at the institute, institute director Jusafwar said in his opening speech.

He said industrial firms had already asked graduates to work for them.

"In 2001, there were 177 companies, this year there were 210 firms," he said.

The graduation ceremony was also attended by the secretary for the director general of higher education at the Ministry of Education, Tommy Ilyas. --JP