Is education for the rich only?

Is education for the rich only?

From Bisnis Indonesia

State universities that are state-owned statutory bodies --
the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University, Bandung
Institute of Technology and Diponegoro University -- have
introduced a special procedure for accepting freshmen. This
policy merely shows how absurd our management of education has
become.

As entrance fees can amount to as much as hundreds of millions
of rupiah, only children from well-off families can be accepted
at these universities under this special procedure. If this
procedure is successful, it will be applied at other state
universities. If that were to happen, it would be very obvious
that our government sided only with the rich.

M. WALID, Yogyakarta