Tachers reject move

Tachers reject move

Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Six teachers of state junior high school No.3 in Cileduk,
Tangerang, said they would file a lawsuit against their
headmaster for illegally trying to transfer them to other
schools.

Prior to filing the lawsuit with the State Administrative
Court, the six teachers, R.Latifah HS, Dani. H, Rahmah, Marsono,
Baharudin and Suhaeni were trying to seek a settlement at the
municipal human resources department office (BKD) on Friday.

"Tahya S. Noor, the school headmaster is trying to kick us out
because we questioned him on why he did not include the fund
collected annually from the student's organization (OSIS) in the
school revenue and expense budget," said Marsono, on the
sidelines of their meeting with the head of municipal asset and
financial body.

He said each student at the school was charged Rp 18,000 by
OSIS per academic year. In addition, the six teachers also asked
Tahya to replace his deputy.

"The headmaster seemed unhappy with the criticism made by the
teachers, so he then requested the local educational agency
transfer us to other schools," Marsono added.

He said all the teachers rejected a transfer because they
considered it unlawful.

Due to the unwillingness of the teachers to leave the school,
the headmaster stopped registering the teachers and had
threatened not to pay their salaries in December.

BKD responded to the complaints made by the teachers by
stating that their salary in December could not be transferred by
the headmaster to other schools. Their complaints are also
awaiting Mayor M. Thamrin's decision on whether to go ahead with
the transfer of the teachers and their salaries or not.