Pupils taught in cramped conditions

Pupils taught in cramped conditions

TANGERANG: About 2,500 students from nine state elementary
schools have to share four school buildings located on a plot of
land on Jl. HOS Cokro Aminoto, Kreo, Larangan Utara subdistrict.

Each school has only five classrooms and there are between 40
and 60 students to a room. Students have to take class in turn
and sometimes one table is shared by two or three students,
according to the school principal of SDN I State Elementary
School, Abdul Hamid.

He told The Jakarta Post that there used to be four elementary
schools on the 1.4 hectare plot of land, namely SDN I, SDN II,
SDN III and SDN IV.

"But recently, the four schools were transformed into nine
schools, without any additional buildings and other supporting
facilities," he said.

He said that parents of the children who go to SDN VII school
and SDN VIII school had raised funds for the construction of new
school buildings as they had been greatly concerned with their
children's education.

A municipal councillor said that 80 percent of the 413 schools
in Tangerang share their buildings with other schools. -- JP