There are eighteenth schools in Bali that rejected fund allotment of Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS) – School Operational Assistance – from the government budgeted every year. That BOS rejection by those schools is due to their status, which has already held international status. Bali provincial government forced to return the fund back into state treasury.

Head of Education, Youth and Sport Agency for Bali province, Wayan Suastha, confessed it on Thursday (June 24). According to Suastha since budget calculation in 2005, the government has routinely delivering BOS to elementary schools/junior high schools around Indonesia. “Before schools who rejected BOS are 16 schools. Now there are 18 of them,” said Suastha.

According to Suasta, those 18 schools rejected BOS consists of 16 elementary schools and 6 junior high schools. Those junior high are private schools such as Taman Rama Kuta Selatan Junior High, Taman Rama Denpasar Utara Junior Hight, Cipta Dharma Denpasar Junior High, Dyatmika Denpasar Junior High, Tunas Daud Denpasar Junior High and CHIS Denpasar Junior High.

Meanwhile for 12 elementary schools rejected BOS are Tunas Kasih Kuta Selatan, Taman Rama Kuta Selatan, Taman Rama Denpasar, Cipta Dharma Denpasar, Dyatmika Denpasar, Tumbuh Kembang Denpasar, CHIS Denpasar, Tunas Daud Denpasar, Harapan Mulya Denpasar, High Schope Indo Bali Denpasar, Mustika Denpasar and Cerdas Mandiri Denpasar. “If we counted number of students who did not take their BOS fund is 3.578 students,” Suastha said.

According to Suasta, if rejected the fund then it will goes back into the state treasury. Educational Agency will pay to the Bali Provincial Monetary Division for the fund to be returned.

What is the reason to reject BOS? “Those schools rejected BOS fund since activities in their school fully borne by parents participation. It is means that those schools have been able to cover all their operational cost individually. They are schools with international standard,” Suastha said.

International schools who reject BOS fund is well-established with their international system through the learning process. They applied bilingual learning process, which used Indonesia and one foreign language as the educational language. “Monthly dues at those schools are also relative higher than other public or private schools in Bali. So their rejection is plausible and there is no violation there,” says Suastha.

From the data gained by NusaBali, in 2010 Bali once again received BOS assistance from central government for around IDR 264.4 billion. That fund used in order to support nine year compulsory educational program allocated for 590.632 elementary and junior high schools student around Bali.

The detail is IDR 166.9 billions for elementary school for around 419.889 students. Meanwhile 170.743 junior high students deserved IDR 97.4 billions. Disbursement conducted every three month. The first quarter had been done on February 2010 and the second quarter is on April 2010.

News by NusaBali