Govt to recruit 190,000 teachers

Govt to recruit 190,000 teachers

JAKARTA: The government said on Wednesday it would recruit
190,000 contract teachers next year and 47,000 in the following
year to overcome the shortage of teachers.

Secretary-general of the Ministry of Education Makmuri Muchlas
said the contract teachers would be hired on a three-year basis
although their contract could be extended if they performed well.

"We will take candidates from their own regions," he told a
press conference.

He also said the government would not promise to take on the
teachers as civil servants.

For this year, the government has said that it would recruit
some 190,714 contract teachers to teach students from
kindergarten to high school.

Of the total, 13,367 teachers would be assigned to
kindergartens, 96,866 to elementary schools, 78,408 to junior and
senior high schools and 2,133 to special schools.

All contract teachers would receive Rp 460,000 (US$57.5) as a
monthly salary . -JP