Gandhi acquisition plan rejected

Gandhi acquisition plan rejected

JAKARTA: The city's elementary education office has turned
down the request of Gandhi Memorial School in Ancol, North
Jakarta, to acquire nearby plots where the SDN 01 and SDN 02
elementary schools currently stand.

Iing A. Mukmin of the education office said that the request
was rejected because there were many students studying at the two
schools, and that their parents had strongly objected to
relocating the schools.

Hundreds of residents expressed their objection to the plan on
Wednesday, when they staged a rally in protest.

Mukmin told Kompas that the Gandhi Memorial School wanted to
acquire the land to build the school's parking lot.

Local residents have complained that the school was causing
traffic congestion in the neighborhood, especially because it
does not have a parking space of its own. -- JP