Environment goes to school

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)