Students, teachers go on strike

Students, teachers go on strike

BANDUNG: Some 650 students and 80 teachers of state-run Senior
High School 5 (SMU) in the West Java regency of Cimahi went on
strike on Thursday after they were denied access to the school.

The students just sat in the schoolyard while their teachers
assembled in the teacher's room, waiting for news from the local
education office.

"We have not been able to study since Monday because other
students who used to occupy classes in the afternoon took our
morning classes," Suhendar, one of the students, said.

The senior high school shares the school building with Junior
High School PGRI III, with the latter using it in the afternoons.

It was not immediately known why the junior high school
shifted its classes to the mornings. --Antara