Four schools win green competition

Four schools win green competition

JAKARTA: Four high schools in Greater Jakarta have won a green
school competition and each will be given a Rp 25 million grant
to help finance their green programs for one year.

The winners were Wikrama technical high school in Bogor, state
high school SMU 13 in North Jakarta, SMU 69 in the Thousand
Islands Regency and SMK Al Muslim of Bekasi.

"This competition is part of a program to introduce a concept
of green schools to students so that the students gain awareness
and responsibility about developing environmentally friendly
behavior in their respective schools," said a joint statement
made by the board of adjudicators on Monday.

The competition, entitled Go Green School, was organized by
the Coca-Cola Foundation, the Kehati Foundation and the Center
for the Betterment of Education.

Wikrama designed a three-year program to develop efforts to
save ground water and electricity, while SMU 13 plans to recycle
its waste and make compost. --JP.