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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