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Wassenaar — SIDH organised a farewell party for the Year 12 students who just finished their computer-based National Final Examination today, 13 April 2017. Some of them would leave immediately for preparing their university study in Indonesia and somewhere else.

We bad proper farewell to Sarah, Ical, Shania, Acip, Azizah, Sazkia, Arif and Lavina. We were sure their schooling at SIDH would be a valuable asset for them to strive for a successful future.

Besides the parents of our departing students, also present in the event were Year 12 students of Sekolah Indonesia Beograd (Indonesian School of Belgrade): Oley, Bagus, Fira and Nanda. They too, would return immediately to their domiciles either in Switzerland or Turkey.

Wassenaar — In accordance with the rundown scheduled by the Indonesian National Education Standards Board, SIDH commenced the administration of the computer-based national final examination for Senior High School, Monday morning, 10 April 2017. This school year, 8 of our Year 12 students took the examination and 5 students of the Indonesian School of Belgrade, Serbia.

As it has been for the 2^nd time that SIDH organised this kind of test, our informatics and robotics teacher, Dr. Safreni took the lead — technically — in ensuring the excellent process of the examination. She has put forth her best efforts and collaborated closely with Mr Alfujianto and his team from the Centre for Educational Assessment, Ministry of Education and Culture, Jakarta.

To bolster the spirit and motivation of the examinees and to guarantee the highest standard of the examination implementation as regulated by the integrity pact, the Attaché of Education and Culture, Prof. Bambang Hari Wibisono and H.E. Ambassador Puja called on SIDH. They were accompanied by our Principal, Mr Ripul together with Mr Yadi.

The first day it ran without bumps. We expect the examination would accomplish very well up to the final day on Thursday, 13 April 2017. And we hoped the examinees would attain superb result.

Amsterdam — SIDH Primary School (upper classes) students participated in the contextual learning programme by visiting NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam, 5 April 2017. During the field study activity they could experience hands-on certain knowledge and experiments of natural sciences and how they were applied as technology.

This programme was collaboratively organised by Bu Dessy and the pupils themselves. Most of the cost was covered with the profit they collected few weeks earlier through the entrepreneurship event they held by selling snacks and drinks.

Wassenaar — As part Wassenaar’s community, SIDH took part in the charity activity “Wandelen voor Water”, organised in Wassenaar, 23 March 2017.

From our school community we managed to collect a symbolic amount of money to be donated to the Stichting Kinderhulp Indonesië. This foundation would subsequently channel the collected donation to help building clean water and hygienic facilities at several primary schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Along with about 800 other students from 9 schools in Wassenaar, 13 of our students participated in the return “Walk for Water” starting from our school to the town-hall of Wassenaar Municipality. Each participant brought some bottles of water in her/his backpack that we received from the organiser. It symbolised the effort carried out by children in countries where water is scarce that in order to get clean water they had to walk around averagely 6 kilometres from home to the water source.

The participating students from our school were: Hasan, Bintang, Almira, Rahcman, Yudistira, Naya, Patia, Berekhya, Hannah, Kamila, Reza, Avriel, and Fairuz Kamilah. They were accompanied by Mr Ripul dan Mr Yadi.

At the front yard of the town-hall the participants were exclusively welcomed by the Indonesian Ambassador, H.E. I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja. For the first time Indonesia received the honorary place in the event. H.E. Ambassador was accompanied by our Attaché of Education and Culture, Prof. Bambang Hari Wibisono. The stage was toned up by Gert-Jan van den Ende, a Dutch actor, componist and clown, who is also famous as Bobbie from the Ernst, Bobbie en de Rest Kindernet TV programme. The total collected donation amounted to €30.000,00.

The Stichting Kinderhulp Indonesië, Ms Aty Boers and on behalf of the organiser, Mr Rolf Meursing thanked SIDH and in return Mr Ripul expressed gratitude to the organiser that SIDH had been able to involve actively in the event. Through Fairuz Kamilah and us the Stichting also received some amount of donation from Toko Nusantara (Mr Didin Fahrudin), The Hague.

To our students, parents, guardians, teachers and staff, and Toko Nusantara, SIDH would like to extend sincere appreciation for your contribution and donation.