Bandung schools on the web

Bandung schools on the web

BANDUNG, West Java: Twenty-two public high schools here have
been hooked up to the Internet in a pioneering effort to
establish a national educational network through the Internet.

"This proves that the idea to establish a national educational
network has been enthusiastically welcomed, particularly by local
junior and senior high schools," Sony Sugema, chairman of the
Sony Sugema College which initiated the plan to establish such a
network through the Internet, said Wednesday.

He said the on-line linking of these high schools marked the
initial step taken by Bandung, the official site of the pilot
project, toward materializing the plan.

As reported by Antara, an agreement was signed on April 15
between the provincial education and culture office here and the
state-owned satellite communications company, Indosat, on the
selection of Bandung as the site of the pilot project for the
national educational network.

According to Sugema, the college hopes to establish an SS-Net
Education Network, which will deal specially with the
establishment of an educational network through the Internet for
all educational institutions across Indonesia.