Education bill to be endorsed next year

Education bill to be endorsed next year

JAKARTA: Minister of National Education A. Malik Fadjar said
on Wednesday that the education bill would be endorsed next year
although the bill had no really contentious articles.

He said that the bill should undergo at least two rounds of
discussions in the House of Representatives (DPR) before it was
passed into law.

"Besides, the government wants to use National Education Day
next year as the time for endorsing the bill," Malik told
journalists after a hearing with House Commission VI on human
resources and religious affairs.

National Education Day falls on May 2.

Meanwhile, legislator M. Irsyad Sudiro from the Golkar faction
said on Wednesday that the deliberation of the bill should be
completed by the end of the year.

The current House session will end on Nov. 29. --JP