Scholarships for paper deliverers

BANDUNG: The Jakarta-based Kompas morning daily awarded scholarships to 1,437 of its newspaper carriers in the city.

About 80 of the recipients attended the ceremony at Gramedia Bookstore.

Sony Kasiran, the daily's Bandung circulation manager, said that most of the newspaper carriers are students in great need of financial assistance.

This year, Kompas increased the number of scholarship recipients by 40 percent, up from the 1,000 recipients in 1995.

The newspaper's management promised to support the paper carriers financially until they finish their high school education. (06)