World-class school to be built in Yogya

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