City allots Rp 10b for final exams

JAKARTA: The Jakarta administration has disbursed Rp 10 billion (US$1.17 million) to subsidize final exams for 131,846 high school seniors.

"The students are mostly from special schools for disabled people, vocational schools and Islamic schools," an official at the city education agency, Satino, was quoted by Antara as saying on Tuesday.

He said additional money from the central government would be disbursed in May.

The high school seniors will take the final in May. -- JP