Students lose school buildings

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