(Minghui.org) Dozens of teachers, along with over 800 students in a national junior high school in Tangerang, Indonesia learned how to do the five Falun Gong exercises on the morning of September 13, 2014. The school principal learned the benefits of the practice and invited local practitioners to teach the exercises at school.
The positive impact of Falun Gong on school education has been long recognized. For example, in India, especially the southern areas, nearly one hundred schools have invited Falun Gong practitioners to teach tens of thousands school children this ancient Chinese practice.
From a report in the New India News on May 14, 2005, “Principal Sri Baireshwara Vidyaniketan, Srinivaspura, Sriram Reddy encouraged the practice in his school, which he says has transformed the students.
“‘This year we got a 100 percent first class result in SSLC examinations. Students have become more focused now,’ he says. Reddy, who was on medication for asthma for the past 40 years now claims to have been cured by Falun Gong.”
The Baltimore Sun article “Immigrants Turn to Falun Gong to Help Kids Behave” from July 9, 2001, said, “Concerned about violence, casual sex and drugs in American culture, [immigrant parents] see Falun Gong as a way to keep their sons and daughters on the straight and narrow.”
Falun Gong is not foreign to Indonesian students. In 2012, more than 200 students at the most popular high school in Batam, the SMK Batam Business School, experienced the gentle and peaceful energy field generated by the Falun Gong exercises.
Last Saturday, 800 junior high school students and their teachers assembled at 7:00 a.m. Before learning the exercises, a Falun Gong practitioner explained what Falun Dafa was about, and the significance of the movements, with several practitioners up front demonstrating the exercises. Falun Dafa can not only help improve physical fitness but also help people focus better and become more peaceful inside, said the practitioner.
After everyone did the exercises, there was a simple Q&A session. Everyone got to ask questions or share their experiences. The vice-principal of the school said that she felt strong energy in her lower abdomen. Several students said that they were very excited now that they knew how to do the exercises.
One of the teachers said that she would introduce Falun Dafa and the exercises to her husband, who was a principal at another school.
Falun Gong was introduced to Indonesia in 1995, and soon spread to many islands.
