‘Facebook’ for Schools

A company in Bandung developed a free school-database program. They hope to earn revenues from advertisements and application developments.

May 25, 2011

GUNTUR Rian Eka Nugraha, an administration staff in the PGRI 1 Junior High School, Depok, West Java, sat in front of the 16-inch LCD monitor atop his small desk. He diligently input the students and school data to a new application that has only been used for six months. The new application, Jibas, replaced the Excel spreadsheet program previously in service. “The old one (Excel) was a manual program,” said Guntur. “Jibas allows all student

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