Minister of Education prohibits schools do levy

Monday, September 21, 2009





National Education Minister Prof. DR. Bambang Sudibyo forbids public schools to do basic level of charges to parents. Only international schools and international schools request (SBI and RSBI) is allowed to do these charges to complete the required facilities.

Coherent minister presented as a dialogue with the teachers in Jepara, on Friday afternoon (20 / 3). The dialogue that followed thousands of teachers, held in Gedung Wanita Jepara. "All the operational needs of the school was satisfied with the government to raise funds Operations Student Assistance (BOS) by 50 percent," said Bambang Sudibyo. If this amount is still less, then the faults covered by the local government.

With this financing scheme, Sudibyo sure primary school children in the villages, both the level of SD / MI and SMP / MTs no longer a lack of funding. "But the schools in the city high quality standards there are not enough," he said. If this happens, the school can get donations from parents.

With the contribution limits, the only gratuity is obtained from the parents. Schools are not allowed to determine the amounts and payment limits. Students are not able to also not allowed to give donations.

To set the clarity of the contribution, the minister instructed the local government in the form of legal protection rules and regulations regents governor, or local regulations. We have been almost the rule was published in Jepara. Long before there was the governor's instructions, the regent of Jepara Drs. Hendro Martojo, MM has prepared the publication of this legal rule.