Environment goes to school

CIREBON, West Java: The city administration will include an environmental awareness class as part of the local content in the 1995 elementary school curriculum.

Antara quoted Mayor Kumaedhi Syafrudin as saying yesterday that, for the first phase, the new class would be applied to 10 schools before the other 120 schools in the area took part.

According to Subakat Soehada, head of the Cirebon Urban Development Project, the environmental awareness program was adopted in 1992 on a trial basis at four schools which have received financial assistance from the local administration and the government of Switzerland.

He added that the program was not meant to merely convey theories from environmental studies but also to give students an appreciation of the environment in which they live. (mds)