Jakarta to appoint top grade schools

Jakarta to appoint top grade schools

JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Office of the Ministry of Education
and Culture plans to appoint top-grade state-run senior high
schools.

Those who graduate from junior high school with the highest
marks can choose the top schools, although they are located
outside the students' regional exam areas or rayons, Soegijo, the
head of the City Council's Commission E on education, told The
Jakarta Post yesterday.

Under the present system, a student of a state-run junior high
school in Klender area, East Jakarta, for instance, is allowed to
apply only to state-run senior high schools in Klender and its
surroundings as determined by the system.

Soegijo announced the results of his commission's meeting with
Tating Karnadinata, the head of the office, on Monday.

According to the plan, the state-run Senior High School Number
Eight (SMA 8) will be appointed the top grade senior high school
for the entire Jakarta area.

Besides SMA 8, one state-run senior high school in each of
Jakarta's five mayoralties has been nominated as a top-grade
school. They are SMA 68 for Central Jakarta, SMA 13 for North
Jakarta, SMA 78 for West Jakarta, SMA 70 for South Jakarta and
SMA 81 for East Jakarta.

Soegijo said the great number of junior high school students
who apply to those schools is among the criteria which made them
the best candidates to be picked as top-grade schools. (06)