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