World-class school to be built in Yogya

YOGYAKARTA: In cooperation with the Yogyakarta provincial government, the Sampoerna Foundation is set to open an internationally accredited senior high school in Yogyakarta. The school, which is expected to open in July 2006, will admit some 90 to 100 first year students in its first year, said the school's chief operating officer Elan Eddy.

The school will make use of a former youth center located in Sleman regency belonging to the Yogyakarta provincial government, said Achmad Rizali Gaffar, the foundation's project coordinator.

SF will also work with a Swiss-based International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) that will give the school's graduates internationally recognized certificates. "As IBO certified graduates, they can apply directly to a university abroad that has links with the IBO. They do not need to take a special exam," Nanang said.

Sampoerna Foundation, a social wing of giant tobacco firm PT HM Sampoerna, is a non-governmental institution that focuses on education. It claims to have provided scholarships to over 14,400 elementary and high school students throughout Indonesia since it was established in 2001. -- JP