OPTIMISM is now coloring the days of Sugito, head of the Yogyakarta Education Service. Thousands of school buildings devastated by the earthquake almost a year ago are now standing erect. Though not yet completely finished, he believes that the reconstruction of the 2,375 damaged schools at five regencies in Yogyakarta can be completed late this year.

To date, 85 percent of the collapsed school buildings have been rebuilt. These schools are reco