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A number of students look outside the building at SD Negeri Marunda 05, Cilincing, North Jakarta, Wednesday (29/3/2023). Residents of Marunda Rusunawa still find coal dust in their neighborhood..
Every morning, cleaning officers dust the ceramic floors in the complex of State Elementary School (SDN) Marunda 05 in Cilincing, North Jakarta, which shares the same roof with State Junior High School (SMPN) 290 and State Kindergarten (TK) Cilincing 02. Not only swept, the floors have to be scrubbed as coal dust is spread all over the schools. A considerable amount of coal dust has become stuck, forming a coating so that the floor has darkened.
A cleaning officer of SMPN 290, Rahman, 28, shared that the water used to scrub the floor turned black with the coal dust.