Students to camp at museum

Students to camp at museum

JAKARTA: The National Awakening Museum, better known as the
Stovia building, at Jl. Abdul Rahman Saleh 26, Central Jakarta,
is to host a camp-out for students on Aug. 9 and Aug. 10.

Dewi Murwaningrum, an official at the museum, told The Jakarta
Post on Tuesday that the event was expected to familiarize
students with the museum. It is also to coincide the museum's
Independence Day celebration on Aug. 17.

Students will spend a night in tents within the complex of the
country's first vocational school, which was built by the Dutch
colonial administration 104 years ago.

The Stovia, the abbreviation for School tot Opleiding van
Inlandsche Artsen (Vocational School of Medicine for Indigenous
Doctors), was the birthplace of the Boedi Oetomo Movement on May
28, 1908, which was later commemorated as National Awakening Day.

For more information, please contact the museum at 3483 0033
or 384 7975, Tuesday to Friday. -- JP