Gandhi elementary school

Gandhi elementary school

Sometime in February 1992, we, the lecturers and our
colleagues at the University of Indonesia, purchased plots of
land in Sunter Agung Podomoro. To be precise, the land was
located on Jalan Bisma near the Pappango village administration
office.

When we purchased the land, the developers, PT Indoika and PT
Sunter Agung, informed us of the facilities to be constructed.
Among others, according to the developers, there would be
national and international private schools to be acquired and
managed by the Ancol Gandhi School Foundation.

The schools, to be located on a plot of land measuring 48,000
square meters, would be under the flagship of a new foundation.
This foundation, we read, would be managed by the same medical
doctors managing Ancol Gandhi School. Imbued with great
enthusiasm, we decided to buy the plots of land. Unfortunately
six years have elapsed, no school has been built and the land
lies neglected.

We therefore appeal to the school foundation for empathy. We
have been waiting and hoping since 1992 to send our children and
grandchildren to Gandhi kindergarten and elementary school.

Also, can the Gandhi Foundation explain why in their school
there is only a small number of indigenous Indonesian children
when the country has a population of some 200 million, of whom
only about 20 percent are Indonesian citizens of foreign descent.
Is it true that there are constraints on receiving indigenous
pupils?

In addition we would appreciate information from the Ancol
Gandhi Memorial School Foundation about when a school under its
management will be built. Land worth millions of rupiah lies
unused while the local people in Jl. Bisma Podomoro area badly
need a school.

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