VIVAnews - 12,000 students of Ash-Shiriyah Foundation, Bogor, West Java, cannot participate in the National Examination which has been taking place since 15 December 2008. They cannot take the exam because the Department of Religious Affairs did not send the materials.
The Department did not deliver the materials because the students have not paid the examination fee.
Those who failed to take the exam are students of Islamic elementary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools situated at Parung Subdistrict, Bogor Regency, West Java.
School students did not pay the required fees to the Islamic School Working Group (KKM) of Bogor Regency. But that was because they were not required to pay anything earlier.
These thousands of students have asked their schools to disband the working group.
Fuad, part of Ash-Shiriyah Islamic Boarding School management, said that in the previous year, the students were not forced to pay any semester fees or examination fees.
Semester fee and examination fee for Islamic elementary schoos is Rp 6,000 (US$0.55) per student; junior highs school, Rp 21,000 (US$1.92); and high school, Rp 34,000 (US$3.10).
The school, directed by Habib Asegaf, had never been required to pay fees.
In addition, Head of KKM of Bogor Regency, Hawasi, stated that the fees were not only aimed at semester needs and National Examination. It is also to be used for meeting other needs, including for Sports and Arts Festival (Porseni) of Bogor Regency.
However, Hawasi said that as of today, Wednesday, 18 December, test materials have been dispatched by the Department of Religious Affairs of Bogor Regency to Ash-Shiriyah Foundation.
Meanwhile, Habib Asegaf said that up until today the students have not yet taken the semester and national exams. "I swear to God. Until this minute, our students have not yet received any materials," said Asegaf, Thursday, Dec. 18.
Coverage by: Ayatullah Humaeni / Bogor
Translated by: Bonardo Maulana Wahono
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