Lebak Regency Government Helps Outer Bedouin Children Enter Public Schools So They Can Be Calistung

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JAKARTA - The Lebak Regency Government, Banten is ready to help Outer Bedouin children if they want formal school so that residents in the interior can read, write and count (calistung). "We hope that children in the interior can at least be able to calistung," said Deputy Regent of Lebak Ade Sumardi, in the Outer Badui Community Settlement Area in Kaduketug Village, Lebak, Monday 1 August.

The Lebak Regency Government is ready to help Outer Bedouin children who want to go to formal school. In fact, the local government will build educational facilities that are located close to Bedouin settlements. We still respect and respect the traditional beliefs of the Bedouin people," he said as quoted by Antara. According to him, currently, Bedouin children are also studying in non-formal education, namely the Community Learning Activity Center (PKBM). accommodate Bedouin children so that they are capable of calistung. The PKBM, he said, is located around a Bedouin settlement so that Bedouin children want to learn.

However, his party hopes that in the future Outer Badui children will want to go to formal school. Currently, said the Deputy Regent, many Bedouin sons and daughters are now the Police, the TNI to the State Civil Apparatus (ASN). "We hope that children in the interior receive education However, Mae (30) an Outer Badui resident admitted that he had studied at PKBM Kencana Ungu Leuwidamar up to Package C or equivalent to high school. However, he did not continue his formal schooling because prohibited by custom. "We are now able to do calistung and are not illiterate," he said. Meanwhile, Jumadi (14) an Outer Badui resident said he had studied at PKBM up to Package B or the equivalent of junior high school, but now stopped. formal school, because it is hindered by customs," he said.