Students hold classes in hall

SOASIO, Maluku: Around 120 children at the Teluk Buli Wayamli transmigration site, Central Halmahera, have to hold classes in a ramshackle village hall because there's no school building, Antara reported yesterday.

"The students can't learn well because there are no adequate facilities for them, and because there are not enough teachers," said Ibrahim Maneke, a Maba district school superintendent.

The site houses some 300 resettled families, mostly from Java Island, and has only three teachers.

The regency administration has allocated funds to build a school and a house for the teachers, but has yet to find a contractor to take up the job, Ibrahim said.

"Some of the contractors said they didn't want the project because the site is much too remote, and that it would be difficult for them to get transportation materials there," he said. (swe)