Puncak Jaya lacks of teachers

Puncak Jaya lacks of teachers

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: The Puncak Jaya regency has been in need
of 400 teaching staff to be assigned in elementary schools, says
local official.

"The local administration have financial problems to recruit
400 more teachers and pay them in order to help return school
activities into normal in the regency," Puncak Jaya Regent
Elieser Renmaur said here on Monday.

Hundreds of elementary school teachers in remote areas in the
regency have gone back to their home villages outside the
province because the antimigrant-people sentiment in the province
in 1994.

The regent said so far, 24 elementary schools in the regency
have yet to resume operation because of the absence of teaching
staff while the remaining 44 others had only 175 teachers.
--Antara