Bekasi to relax school fees

Bekasi to relax school fees

BEKASI: The Bekasi City Council has agreed to reduce school
enrollment fees for elementary and middle high school students.

Chairman of Commission D on development affairs, Zubaidi
Asnan, said on Tuesday that the administration's new policy was
part of the state's nine-year compulsory learning program.

"It would enable the community to gain easier access to
education," he was quoted as saying by Tempointeraktif.com.

The administration will allocate Rp 250 million to cover the
enrollment fees and another Rp 8.5 billion to subsidize the
school facilities' fees, which are now no longer allowed to be
charged to students.

Zubaidi added that the council had also agreed to the use of a
total of Rp 42 billion to renovate school buildings.