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Article: INDONESIA: PARENTS HOLD A TALK SHOW ON BIRD FLU AWARENESS.
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- Interpress Service
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- February 26, 2007
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by Richel Dursin
JAKARTA, Feb. 25, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Not content with the government's public awareness campaign against bird flu, a group of parents in Bekasi regency has taken the initiative in educating the poor and the marginalised about the deadly disease.
"The government's campaign against bird flu does not reach the people at the grassroots level," said Rulie Bambang, head of the Jami'iyyah Communication Forum, an association of parents of some 8,000 children studying in 10 prominent Al-Azhar Islamic schools in Bekasi, West Java province.
Earlier this month, the forum organised a talk show on avian influenza featuring Lula Kamal, a ...