Dinas Pendidikan DKI Jakarta mencatat 99,86 persen atau 153.009 siswa di ibu kota mengikuti Ujian Nasional (UN) tingkat Sekolah Dasar (SD) dan sederajat. Dari total keseluruhan yaitu 15.231 siswa, sebanyak 222 siswa atau 0,14 persen tidak mengikuti UN hari pertama.

Untuk siswa Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI), sebanyak 12.317 siswa (99,63 persen) hadir dan 45 siswa (0,37 persen) tidak hadir. Sementara untuk siswa SD Luar Biasa (SDLB), kehadiran mencapai 100 persen, yaitu dengan total 123 siswa.

"Pelaksanaan UN untuk tingkat SD dan sederajat di Jakarta pada hari pertama berjalan lancar. Sebanyak 99,86 persen siswa hadir," kata Kepala Dinas Pendidikan (Disdik) DKI Jakarta, Taufik Yudi Mulyanto, di Jakarta, Senin (6/5/2013).

"Berdasarkan data kami, dari total 222 siswa atau 0,14 persen yang tidak mengikuti ujian hari ini, sebanyak 10 siswa tercatat tidak hadir karena meninggal dunia," ujar Taufik.

Taufik mengungkapkan pihaknya juga mencatat sebanyak 33 siswa tidak hadir dengan alasan sakit, 105 siswa tanpa keterangan, dan 74 siswa terdaftar sebagai siswa inklusi.

Menurut Taufik, pihaknya memberikan kesempatan bagi siswa-siswa yang tidak hadir pada hari pertama pelaksanaan UN, untuk mengikuti ujian susulan.

"Minggu depan, rencananya, kami akan mengadakan ujian susulan dengan mata pelajaran yang sama untuk seluruh siswa yang tidak sempat mengikuti ujian hari ini. Jadi, siswa tidak perlu khawatir," ungkap Taufik.

Berdasarkan data Disdik DKI Jakarta, pada hari pertama UN, sebanyak 140.614 siswa SD (99,87 persen) mengikuti ujian dan 177 (0,13 persen) siswa tidak hadir.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.