PHOTOGRAPHY: Photo of the day – ‘Makeshift School’ By JG Photo

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Bogor. The students at SDN Mutiara elementary school in Bogor, West Java, have not been able to study in their normal classrooms for the past month, when their school collapsed.

The building was built in 1984, and was renovated in 2008.

About 53 students now attend class in a makeshift tent in front of the collapsed building in Kampung Pasir Bayur, within Bogor.

The tent, constructed from wooden boards and a tarpaulin roof, is unable to withstand even the slightest inclement weather.

Selva, a teacher at SDN Mutiara, had submitted renovation proposals to Bogor’s education board in 2016 and 2017. Both proposals were ignored.

The makeshift classroom in front SDN Mutiara elementary school. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

Students hard at work. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

A distraction draws the students’ attention. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

A host of roaming animals enter and exit the makeshift classroom as they please. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

Students prefer to attend class barefoot, avoiding the need to wash mud off their shoes each day after school. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

The outdoor classroom is covered only by a thin layer of tarpaulin. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

The collapsed SDN Mutiara school building stands just behind the makeshift classroom. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)

Students of SDN Mutiara elementary school still learn with pleasure and happiness even though they have not been able to study in their regular classrooms for the past month. (JG Photo / Yudha Baskoro)