Officer schools to be reduced

Officer schools to be reduced

JAKARTA: Minister of National Education Malik Fadjar said on
Friday that his office would reduce the number of state-sponsored
schools especially designed to educate state officials.

He said the move was being made as the structure of government
administration would be streamlined in the future.

Malik, however, said the government would maintain the schools
for Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police officers.

According to the minister, more than 50 schools train state
officials.

The schools are managed by the home ministry; industry and
trade; tourism, art and culture; marine and fisheries;
agriculture; mining and mineral resources; social affairs; and
justice and human rights ministries, the central bureau of
statistics, the national atomic energy agency, the health
ministry, the national agrarian agency and the finance ministry.

Malik said the schools could be transformed either into
private schools or be merged with existing universities. -- Antara