The new school year has started, fifteen students who were sixth grade have graduated and now they go on to Junior High School. First-year students have gone up to become second-year students. For first grade students, they are seven children aged six or seven, three girls and four boys.
There is almost no money spent by parents for school fees when they send their children to the government school. Government also provides assistance to poor students through the Indonesia Smart Card. Elementary students get IDR 450,000 per year and can be used to buy school uniforms, bags & shoes.
For textbooks, the government provides them periodically. Parents only need to buy school stationery.
Although the first grade students did not study in Kindergarten, they already get used to with the school, because they often played at the school, especially when they join the students read story books from Goldteak at the school porch.
(Pictures: from first grade to six grade)
