Thousands of children left uneducated
Thousands of children left uneducated
BEKASI: At least 76,233 children of the 1.7 million population of Bekasi, have not started elementary school Mayor Akhmad Zurfalih said on Friday.
"Generally they are from families with a low income so they do not have the financial support to be properly educated," Akhmad said.
He added that some of the families did not really want their children to go to school but suggested that further research was needed to uncover why this was the case.
The data provided by the mayoralty also indicates that at least 277,990 of the population didn't finish elementary school.
The chairwoman of the City Council Commission E for education and social welfare affairs, Tati Ruswartati, urged the city administration to allocate Rp 30 billion (US$3.5 million) or 5 percent of the 2004 budget, a total of Rp 600 billion, for a fund to help poor families educate their children. -- Antara
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Palyja water supply disrupted
JAKARTA: PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya announced on Thursday that customers in a number of areas in the city will suffer water supply disruption due to work at the Pejompongan water treatment plant in Central Jakarta.
Water supplies will be cut on Saturday from 2 p.m to 11 p.m. in the following areas: Muara Karang, Sawah Besar, Latumeten, Casablanca, Tomang, Harmoni, Jl. MH. Thamrin and Semanggi. -- JP
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5 subdistricts demand health centers
JAKARTA: Residents of five subdistricts in South Jakarta -- Bintaro, Srengseng Sawah, Tanjung Barat, Ciganjur and North Petukangan -- urged the mayor to build public health centers for them.
The residents first made the demand five years ago, but still no action has been taken.
"The mayor is discriminating against us. We have a right to affordable health services at a public health center. We can't afford to go to the hospital," said Imas, a resident of Bintaro on Friday.
"We have integrated health services in community units and neighborhood units, but they can't provide optimum health service," she said, as quoted by beritajakarta.com.
Nining, a resident of Tanjung Barat subdistrict, said she had to spend extra money on an ojek (motorcycle taxi) because the nearest public health center was located in another subdistrict.
Mayor Dadang Kafrawi called on the mayoralty's health office to work with the development planning office to find plots of land in the five subdistricts suitable for public health centers. -- JP