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Students return to school in quake-hit Indonesia



Bantul, (Indonesia), June 6 (Xinhua) Nearly ten days after the devastating earthquake, many schools in Indonesia's worst-hit Bantul district resumed classes, with tents, undamaged labs, libraries and even mosques mobilised as makeshift classrooms.

Ika, a high school student here, returned to school Monday to find her classrooms reduced to rubble by the May 27 earthquake.

In her school, which is one of the best senior high schools here, only four out of 21 classrooms were still safe enough for use. Students of different grades had to have classes in turn - grade one in the morning and grade two in the afternoon - in the four rooms and another four labs that emerged unscathed from the quake.

Sixteen-year-old Ika said she had mixed feelings in returning to school. While she was happy to meet her classmates and friends again after the quake and to know they were fine. However, she was a little scared to sit in the classrooms, not sure whether they were safe enough.

And for Putri Navitasari, a student of a junior high school of the district, it was a bad day as she returned to school to get the news that four of her schoolmates had been killed in the temblor.

Paulus Hari Yunanto, a teacher from the school who suffered head injuries from the quake, said the school's teachers' room had been flattened, and only 10 of the 18 classrooms were still usable. The school now has to resort to another three labs and the library to shelter the students.

In East Bantul Primary School, students of the sixth grade were taking exams under a large blue tent set up in the school field, which can barely protect the sweating children from the heat of the sun. This school bore the brunt of the disaster, as 13 of the 15 classrooms were severely damaged, with large cracks being seen on the inner walls of nearly every room.

Ratna Susantiningsih, a teacher, said students of the lower grades would not return to school until Friday, and by then more tents would be set up in the yard for classes.



© 2006 Xinhua

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