SCHOOLS; PSYCHOLOGISTS

Sekolah BISA is a school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The school, which is run by the British International School in Jakarta, educates 25 shanty-dwelling primary age Indonesian children.

"Kasandra Associates take all children at Sekolah BISA through an intense and focused period of psychological testing. 

"The exercise will substantiate our awareness of how best to continue to support the children's emotional and intellectual growth."

Dra. A. Kasandra Putranto, Psychologist, is the boss at Kasandra Associates.

From 2005 to 2006, Kasandra worked at the ROMY RAFAEL HYPNOTHERAPY CLINIC.

She was the Senior Psychologist in charge in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy sessions for clinical cases.

Romy Rafael studied hypnotism in the USA.

Drs. Asep Haerul Gani, M. Psi., is a Psychologist with Kasandra Associates 

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DAVID CAMERON AND MAUDY

Above we see David Cameron with the Indonesian actress and singer Maudy Ayunda who was showing him around a street market in Jakarta.

Above we see someone who is supposed to be 'Maudy'. 

It is very hot in Indonesia. 

But this, we presume, is photoshopped.

Above we see Maudy, a former child star. 

 Maudy, above, has more than a million Twitter followers.

Maudy, above, speaks English and studied at the British International School in Jakarta.

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Maudy is currently studying at Oxford University.

David cameron has arranged for some 50 Indonesian police officers to travel to the UK for training in counter-terrorism investigations.

Indonesians invited to the UK may be introduced to MI6.

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POOR KID

The British International school (BIS) in Jakarta, in Indonesia, set up the Sekolah BISA, a small free school for slum children.

Recently, BIS students became aware of the plight of Anga (above)

Anga, age 9, lives in a wooden shack, sized 3m by 3m.

Anga has no mother.

Both his birth mother and his step mother have died.

Anga's father sells coffee from the back of a motorbike.

Currently, the motorbike is broken. 

The father's personal identity card has expired.

There is no family identity card.

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Senior pupils at the British International School are taking the following steps:

 1) Arranging a health and nutrition program for the family and registering the family at the local health clinic.

2) Arranging identity documents for the family.

3) Arranging for the family to receive a weekly supply of rice.

5) Arranging the repair of the father's motorbike.

4) Arranging for Anga to attend the Sekolah BISA school.

(Foto by Adimas Grahito, CAS Assistant)

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The video clip is courtesy of Angelina Tan, whose daughter, Isabelle, raised sufficient funds to cover the cost of building a school for slum children.



Bisa school is a free school for slum kids in Jakarta in Indonesia.

Bisa school was set up by the British International School in Jakarta.

"Conceived, designed and managed" by kids at The British International School, Sekolah Bisa is a school for 25 shanty-dwelling primary children who formerly did not get any school education.

Sekolah Bisa

Mayang

Mayang was a beggar on the streets.

Now she attends the Bisa school.

She’s one of the three female members of the Bintang Bisa! soccer team entered into the Jakarta Schools Football League. 

She wants to become a doctor.

Sekolah BISA, in Jakarta Indonesia, is on  Facebook

"We took on something that Sisyphus might have shied away from in envisioning a school:

"The mindsets of parent and child long habituated to exclusion.

"The shanty's communal lack of self belief.

"Our deep unfamiliarities with the culture.

Bisa

"The shanty itself hidden, seemingly impenetrable, overwhelming.

"The huge societal forces that had determined in advance a child should not go to school.

"Our own fears and ignorance.

"The lack of any precedent."

Sekolah BISA - Jakarta, Indonesia - Education | Facebook

Sekolah Bisa (The School That Can) is on YouTube


Mudi

"Overall, Mudi is the most committed member of the school."

A well and washroom at his home is being funded by the British International School's 'Spreading Smiles' charity.

Asked if he was happy at Sekolah Bisa, he said, 'Lebih dari pada senang' - 'More than happy.'

He likes reading and football.


Bisa School


Akbar

Akbar lives in a home that is 3 metres by 3 metres.

He used to pull a cart.


Andik

Andik never fails to thank his teachers at the end of the class. 

Andik was once a beggar and in was once hit by a bus. 


Ahmad 

Ahmad is a remarkably able child. 


Indra

Indra asked if he could become a student at Sekolah Bisa, and he is now enrolled.


Jefri

Jefri used to beg at the railway station. 


Ella 

Ella now has a birth certificate.

Many shanty-dwelling children do not have birth certificates and are not officially recognised as citizens of their own country. 


Yoga

Yoga is 'a precocious and wonderfully aspirational child'.

He is 'a great goalkeeper'.


Cici

Cici's mother works as a maid.


Agung

Agung wants to be a footballer.


Lalita

Lalita want to become a policewoman.


Fini

Fini wants to become a doctor or teacher.


Lipah

Lipah wants to become a doctor or nurse.


Andrie

"Andri is a very frail student - but impeccably polite and attentive to his studies." 


Jihan

Jihan used to pull a garbage cart.

Jihan is a delightfully mannered girl and likes writing.


Ikki

Ikki is often unwell 'but is a lovely child'. He lives with his family in a wood hut.


Heni

Heni is 'highly creative and talented'.


Rendy

Rendy is 'remarkably witty and supportive of other’s learning. 


Rohmat and Rahmat

Rohmat and rahmat are twins.

"They belong to a very cooperative and functioning family."


Anik

Adrian Thirkell, of the British International School, came across Anik filthy and crying at Bintaro railway station.

Now she is at Bisa, and is described as being quick thinking, alert and creative.


Arie

Arie and his family were forced out of their shanty.

The new 'land owner' bulldozed the area.

Arie struggles to get to Sekolah Bisa because he has to go on a public bus first in order to reach the pick-up point for the Sekolah Bisa funded bus. 

He is 'a delightfully good humoured child who has missed almost no school at all since starting in May 2011.'


Siska

Siska loves Maths and problem solving


Lina

Lina wants to become a dentist.

Maman

There is very high death rate among children in some of the Jakarta slums.

Children die regularly from typhoid, typhus, tetanus, TB and a host of other ailments.

Medical care is not free and some of the doctors have only passed their exams through bribery.

A child can appear healthy on a Monday and be dead by Friday.

Maman, 13 years of age, died suddenly.

Maman's father died some time ago and his mother is a maid.

Maman used to chew uncooked noodles.

SEKOLAH BISA!



These Bisa students (above) were discovered on a garbage dump in Jakarta. They were collecting waste materials and selling them. The Street Kids of Jakarta

Strangely, the Bisa school appears to have only two corporate sponsors:

The Body Shop Indonesia and

Giant Hypermarket Jakarta.



One would hope that BP, Jardine Matheson, Unilever, Shell, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Rio Tinto, Premier Oil, BAT, Prudential, Shell, Rolls Royce, GlaxoSmithKline and a number of others will lend their support in future.


Sekolah Bisa!



"A boy whom BIS sent to school now teaches once a week at Sekolah Bisa!

"We gave. He gives back. Reciprocity. Synchronicity. NOT charity.

Lessons given to children in a slum area of Jakarta

1.5 million children live in the slums of Jakarta.

Most of the slum dwellers try to make ends meet by working as 'rag pickers'.

The children often have to start helping their families earn money early on.

Nearly half the population lives on under $2 a day.

Education is not free in Indonesia.

Various projects are "helping the children climb out of poverty through education."

For example, the British International School in Jakarta has set up its little school for slum children.

And Josef Fuchs, an Austrian businessman, has set up a foundation to make it possible for 2,500 children to attend school in 29 slums in Jakarta, Surabaya and Medan.

Education gives hope to Indonesian slum kids 

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