Exams scheduled except in Ambon

Exams scheduled except in Ambon

JAKARTA: National final examinations for senior high school
will be carried out on schedule from May 3 through May 6, except
for Ambon, Maluku, due to security reasons.

At least 300 have died in clashes with religious overtones
since January in the province. Antara did not specify whether
exams in other regencies apart from the Ambon capital would go on
as scheduled.

"The situation in Ambon has not been conducive for taking
exams, therefore a special one will be conducted in June," the
director general of elementary and high school, Indra Jati Sidi,
said here on Monday.

Indra Jati was visiting four high schools in Ambon.

In Sambas, West Kalimantan, where at least 200 have died in
unrest, Indra Jati said special exams would also be held in June
for students who failed to sit for them this week. A few dozen
students turned up for the exam there.

Conditions in East Timor, he said, were normal enough to
enable exams to be taken.