Special Report: Earthquake in Indonesia    

    BANTUL, Indonesia, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 10 days after a devastating earthquake, high school student Ika in Indonesia's worst-hit Bantul district returned to school on Monday, only to find her classrooms had been reduced to rubbles and she had to have classes in the laboratory -- and in the morning only.

    Many schools in Bantul resumed classes on Monday, with tents, undamaged labs, libraries and even mosques all mobilized as makeshift classrooms as many real ones had been badly damaged in the May 27 earthquake of 5.9 magnitude and were not allowed to continue function for safety concern.

    In the No. 2 Senior High School of Bantul, where Ika is from, only four out of 21 classrooms were still safe enough for use. Students of different grades had to have classes in turn -- grade one in the morning and grade two in the afternoon -- in the four rooms and another four labs emerged unscathed from the quake.

    Sixteen-year-old Ika said she had mixed feelings in returning to school. While she was happy to meet her classmates and friends again after the quake and to know they were fine, she was also a little scared to sit in the classrooms being not sure if they were safe enough or not.

    And for Putri Navitasari, a girl student from the No. 1 Junior High School of Bantul, it was just a bad day as she returned to school only to get the news that four of her schoolmates had been killed in the temblor.

    Paulus Hari Yunanto, a teacher from the school who suffered head injuries from the quake, said the school's teachers' room had been flattened, and only 10 of the 18 classrooms were still usable. The school now has to resort to another three labs and the library to shelter the students.

    In East Bantul Primary School, students of the sixth grade were taking exams under a large blue tent set up in the school field, which can barely protect the sweating children from the heat of the sun. This school bore even more brunt of the disaster, as 13 of the 15 classrooms were severely damaged, with large cracks being seen on the inner walls of nearly every room.

    Ratna Susantiningsih, a teacher, said students of the lower grades would not return to school until Friday, and by then more tents would have been set up in the yard for classes. Enditem