Students join In-Docs Junior Camp

JAKARTA: Eighteen high school students will take part in the In-Docs Junior Camp on Kelapa Island in Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands) regency from July 1 to July 14.

The camp is a training program for the students to learn how to make documentary films in a local community to enable them to find a solution to the community's social problems.

During the camp, the 18 students will join local teenagers in producing six documentary series about people's lives on Kelapa island. The movies will be presented in front of the island's residents, JIFFest 2002 and broadcast on TV.

Out of 48 participants, only 18 have qualified to join the training based on their essays about existing social problems in the capital. -- JP