Teachers abandon jungle schools

Teachers abandon jungle schools

SAMPIT, Central Kalimantan: The Kotawaringin Timur Education
and Culture Office said that 60 percent of elementary school
teachers in the regency's remote areas had abandoned their posts.

The office's administration division head Yan Nero said that
currently there were only two teachers, including the headmaster,
in one school while ideally there should be ten.

He said that the teacher shortage was caused mostly by the
recent ethnic conflict in the province.

Yan said that the shortage was also because some teachers
followed their husbands' new posts while others admitted that
they can't stand living in remote areas.

"Many teachers pretended to be Madurese although they are
actually Javanese to get the central government's permission to
move to Java," Yan said. --Antara