While university students took to the streets to protest against the government’s policy on subsidized-fuel prices, hundreds of high school students preferred to flock to Cilandak, South Jakarta, on Wednesday and Thursday, to debate various international issues from Ukraine and transnational crime to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in a simulated UN conference.Some 172 students from 32 schools in several cities including Jakarta, Bogor and Bandung in West Java, Purwokerto in Central Java and Pekan Baru in Riau, participated in the model UN debate. They stepped into the shoes of national ambassadors, prepared draft resolutions, negotiated, plotted strategy …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
