Send us teachers!

Send us teachers!

From Kompas

Since 1988 most children of Long Apari village in Kutai district, East Kalimantan have not been able to attend school because there are no teachers available. I learned of this when I had an assignment there.

A school building with six rooms for studying is full of rats and birds.

The parents of the village and a private foundation tried to pay some young villagers who have graduated from Teachers' College to teach some 150-200 children of elementary school age. But unfortunately, they studied only for two years because their parents lacked money to pay the teachers any longer.

Now they can only hope that the government recognizes their problem and sends them teachers.

VALLEN TINGANG IRANG

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