Kediri, East Java, Feb. 2 -- The bell had rung, ending the school day, but several students stayed behind. Some checked chicken coops. Others fed cattle and sheep. A few moved quietly through vegetable plots, tending crops before dusk settled in.

This is a routine afternoon at Public Vocational High School (SMKN) 1 Plosoklaten in Kediri, East Java, where learning does not stop at the classroom door but continues in barns, fields, and fish ponds.

Here, students work in teams based on their majors, responsible for livestock or crops that mirror real-world agricultural enterprises, blending formal education with daily responsibility and hands-on problem-solving.

For Aditya Mahendra, an 11th-grade student, choosing animal husbandry was not...