University exam results Friday

JAKARTA (JP): Belated results of state university entrance tests in Jakarta and its surrounding areas will be announced at the Senayan Stadium in Central Jakarta on Friday, an executive of the test committee said Monday.

Wiwit B. Widiantono, secretary of the committee in charge of supervising tests in the greater Jakarta area, said the release of results would also be held at the local entrance test committee's offices.

"Test participants can check for free whether they passed either through results attached on a board or newspaper sheets to be handed out by showing their participants' identities," Wiwit was quoted by Antara as saying.

The announcement of the tests, which were conducted on June 16 and June 17, was originally scheduled for July 25. Minister of Education of Culture Juwono Sudarsono attributed the delay to rising prices of paper, late data processing and a 15 percent rise in test takers which had required more arrangements to be made. (hhr)