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“The wounded man managed to escape with his arms, as did the rest of the insurgents.”

Suriastawa added that the dead man is still unidentified. “We have yet to determine the identity of the insurgent, as he has no ID on him. The local also do not recognize him.” The KKB insurgency in Intan Jaya has been raging since December 2019.

The insurgency has killed dozens of Indonesian personnel, an unknown number of insurgents as well as civilians. The latter included Papuan cleric Yeremia Zanambani, who was allegedly  killed by Indonesian security forces in September

Source:

https://regional.kompas.com/read/2021/03/06/163308878/1-anggota-kkb-tewas-ditembak-tni-di-intan-jaya-papua. 

KPAI Express Concerns Over Number of Children Quitting School During Covid-19 Pandemic

The Indonesian Child Protection Commission or KPAI has expressed concerns over the high rate of children nationwide who were forced to quit school, since the Covid-19 pandemic struck Indonesia in March 2020.

“Our research in West Java’s provincial capital Bandung and the city of Cimahi, as well as other parts of Indonesia, showed that the children often quit for a number of reasons,” said KPAI commissioner Retno Listyarti in a written statement Saturday.

“Our interviews with teachers and principals from the Federated Union of Indonesian Teachers [FSGI] and KPAI’s observations, the reasons included marriage, work, failure to pay school fees, addiction to online games, and death.”
She noted that “90 percent of the cases came from private schools, while 75 percent of the schoolchildren who were forced to quit were at the high school levels. The worst affected were poorer families.”

Retno found that 33 children in Bengkulu province’s Seluma regency as well as Bima regency in the West Nusa Tenggara province’s Bima island had to quit school when they married.

Two schoolkids in Jakarta and Cimahi had to quit school when they were forced to work, while 34 pupils had to quit school when they failed to pay their school fees. Natural disasters also took their toll.

“One high-schooler in Bima was killed by floodwaters last year, while at least one student from a private vocational in Jakarta died in a motorcycle accident.” Aside from the mishaps, the Covid-19 pandemic forced classrooms to go online, as face to face learning has been prohibited.
Source:

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2021/03/06/12561341/kpai-angka-putus-sekolah-pada-masa-pandemi-covid-19-cukup-tinggi.