Jakarta, Jan. 19 -- The tuition-free education program Sekolah Rakyat (People's School) reflects Indonesia's commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Arifah Fauzi.

"The Sekolah Rakyat program was created as an instrument to break the cycle of poverty by providing adequate, quality, and accessible education for children from economically disadvantaged families," she noted in a statement received in Jakarta on Monday.

She described the national priority program as a follow-up to Article 28 and Article 29 of the international treaty, which aligns with the 1945 Constitution and was ratified through a 1990 presidential decree, later adopted into Law...