Bogor administration donates books

Bogor administration donates books

BOGOR: The Bogor administration has donated books worth Rp 3.9
billion to about 48,000 underprivileged pupils attending
elementary schools in Bogor.

The chairman of the Bogor education agency, Edi Junaedi, said
on Friday that those 48,000 were part of the 450,000 pupils
enrolled at 1,618 elementary schools in Bogor.

He said the students could only read the books at school and
were prohibited from taking them home. The books would be passed
on later to next year's students.

He said that the administration provided them as the central
government had not made any book donations over the past three
years due to a lack of funds.

The city wants to provide enough books for all students, but
it lacks the funds to do so, he said. It needs some Rp 30 billion
to donate books to all the students in Bogor.

Some of the subjects include social sciences, mathematical and
natural sciences, Indonesian language and vocational books.--JP