Mayor warn schools not

Mayor warn schools not
to collect extra fees

TANGERANG: Tangerang Mayor Wahidin Halim ordered all state
school principals and school boards not to collect extra fees
from new students, except those usually collected at the start of
the academic year.

City Secretary Harry Mulya Zain quoted the mayor as saying on
Wednesday that schools that charged new students extra fees would
be punished. Schools usually charge an admission fee, uniform
fee, text book fee and extra curricular activities fee, besides
monthly tuition fees.

Harry said some parents had complained that they were being
asked to pay extra fees, without a clear explanation of where the
money would go.

"The administration believes that extra fees would overburden
parents," he said. -- JP