Japan donates Rp1.5b stationery

Japan donates Rp1.5b stationery

JAKARTA (JP): Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Takao Kawakami
has donated 9 million (Rp 1.5 billion) worth of stationery to
elementary and junior high schools in Greater Jakarta,
Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Bali.

Packages were symbolically presented on Thursday to 19
students from seven elementary schools and three junior high
schools in Greater Jakarta.

The ceremony, held at the Ministry of Education and Culture,
was attended by minister Juwono Sudarsono.

Procured using funds collected by the Indonesian Students
Association in Japan and the Japanese non-governmental
organization True Friends, the stationery will be distributed to
elementary and junior high students under the auspices of four
universities here.

They are the University of Indonesia (UI), Bandung Institute
of Technology (ITB), the Jakarta Teachers Training Institute
(IKIP Jakarta) and Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS).

According to Suseno from the faculty of the Jakarta Teachers
Training Institute, 60 percent of the donated items had been
distributed through the education and cultural attache of the
Japanese Embassy.

Suseno said the second batch would arrive once the
universities had finished distributing the first quantity.

"From IKIP Jakarta, we already know that we will distribute to
at least 1,200 students from 15 schools in Jakarta. The other
universities are still finding schools they can donate to,"
Suseno said. (ylt)