Teachers turn to door-to-door lessons

Call of duty: Elementary school students greeting Suroto as he arrives to teach them at their homes in Magelang, Central Java, after schools were closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. — AFP

Teacher Henrikus Suroto vowed his students wouldn’t be cheated out of their education when the global pandemic forced schools to be closed in Indonesia’s remote Kenalan village.

So he braves windy mountain roads and sheer cliff drops to visit the poor farming community in Central Java, where online classes are out of the question due to a lack of Internet service – a luxury few parents could afford anyway.