The cost of learning

The cost of learning

From Republika

I am a mother of a child who has just completed junior high school education, and has been enrolled in the government's Senior High School 2 in Tangerang, West Java.

I deplore the school's policy which obliges all new students to pay a Rp 350,000 contribution fee (no installments) for building and for other administrative costs amounting to Rp 588,000. Now, there are 360 students, so the school must have collected Rp 126 million. Where did the government's subsidy go? Has the government's program of compulsory education become compulsory payment? How can the next generation get a proper education?

I would like to draw the attention of the Minister of Education and Culture to this matter, for the good of all parents.

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