Students lose school buildings

BOGOR: Hundreds of students of two state elementary schools in Hambalang village, Bogor regency, have to attend classes at another school because their school buildings had been destroyed under building swap agreements, while the new buildings have not been constructed.

The first agreement is between SDN Hambalang I elementary school and State Rubber Plantation Estate, while the second is between SDN 5 elementary school and Permata Sentul housing developer.

Head of the local education and teaching office Barkeh Dimyati told Antara on Tuesday that the agreements were made in 1980. The plantation estate and the developer promised to build new buildings for the two schools.

But the plantation estate later made an agreement with PT Indocement, which then took over all of its assets, including the SDN Hambalang I building. PT Indocement claimed it knew nothing about the building swap agreement between the school and the rubber plantation estate.

Permata Sentul has not kept to its promise to build a new school building for SDN 5 for as long as its whereabouts are not clear, Dimyati said.

"To whom should we complain? The local administration has not been able to do anything to help the students," he said. --JP