(29 Feb 2004)
1. Pan of exterior of school
2. School sign reading "Kartini Emergency School"
3. Various of pupils activities
4. Teacher singing
5. Various of students singing
6. Various of student leaving school
7. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Raith, student:
"I'm really happy studying here because I got so many friends and the lessons vary, some are easy, some are difficult."
8. Tilt down from bridge to second emergency school frontyard
9. Pan from garbage to classroom
10. Parents waiting for their children
11. Various of class activities
12. Parents
13. Various of teacher watching student learning
14. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Rian Faizal, teacher:
"We expect them to progress and be independent, not like today where they're living under the bridge. At least they can get better lives in proper houses, not under the bridge."
15. Parents watching
16. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Rosy Admira, teacher:
"We expect that the government will build free schools, from elementary to advanced, like modern countries."
17. Various of students leaving class
STORYLINE :
Their school has a highway overpass for a roof and a garbage dump behind the blackboard, while the classroom often floods, leaving students ankle-deep in filthy water.
But the children shrug off the distractions knowing that the alternative - having to beg or to work in factories - is much worse.
There are five Kartini Emergency Schools scattered around Jakarta's slums, financed and run by 54-year-old twin sisters Sri Rosyanti and Sri Irianti.
They aim to give 1,600 children aged five to 17 the basic education their government has failed to provide.
The children are given milk and a snack, free of charge, like their pencils, books and uniforms.
The struggle reflects Indonesia's continuing problems with educating its 76 (m) million children.
Although over 90 percent of seven to 12-year-old children attend primary school, according to official figures, nearly half drop out by age 13.
Many parents say they can't afford school fees of 17-thousand rupiah (two US dollars) a day, or need their children to work.
Millions (m) of parents depend on schools run by charities or send their children to the thousands of pesantrens, Islamic boarding schools.
This dependence on Islamic schools, some of which teach anti-Western curriculums, caused concern after the 2002 terror bombings on the island of Bali that killed 202 people.
Some of the convicted bombers went to pesantrens.
The Kartini Schools, though not religious, also give religious instructions as part of the secular national programme, along with reading, writing and arithmetic.
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