A/HRC/44/40/Add.3 Paragraph 41 And despite high enrolment rates, certain populations face other sizable barriers to education. Twelve percent of households in Sarawak and 7.5 percent in Sabah live more than 9km from a government primary school. For secondary school, the numbers rise to 37.4 percent in Sabah and 50.9 percent in Sarawak. Children in rural areas often leave villages at a young age and stay in hostels far away from their families in order to attend school, but this is far from an ideal situation. And those without identification—including stateless, migrant, and indigenous peoples—are not able to attend public schools and must make do with an informal education. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • Schools built with hostels facilities are to facilitate access to schools for hard to reach children. Furthermore, this form of schools modes are cost effective. Statement on indigenous people not allowed to go to public schools are misleading as MOE set up schools for this group of children within the Orang Asli communities. • In the Students Information System (SSM), there are only 2 indigenous students) who are without documents but they are still given the opportunity to receive formal education, one is at SK Pasir Linggi and the other one is at SK Hendrop. • As at 25 August 2019, there are 1,461 pupils (1,013 in primary schools and 448 in secondary schools) registered in the SSM and APDM (Student Database Education) in Kelantan. All of them are housed in dormitories to avoid school dropouts and formal education like other students. • Malaysian Government has set up 12 schools in the indigenous settlements as follows: (i) Sekolah Kebangsaan Bihai, Gua Musang (ii) Sekolah Kebangsaan Balar, Gua Musang (iii) Sekolah Kebangsaan Hendrop, Gua Musang (iv) Sekolah Kebangsaan Pos Brooke, Gua Musang (v) Sekolah Kebangsaan Blau, Gua Musang (vi) Sekolah Kebangsaan Kuala Lah, Gua Musang (vii) Sekolah Kebangsaan Pasir Linggi, Gua Musang (viii) Sekolah Kebangsaan Tohoi, Gua Musang (ix) Sekolah Kebangsaan Sri Permai, Gua Musang (x) Sekolah Kebangsaan Pulat, Gua Musang (xi) Sekolah Kebangsaan Kuala Betis, Gua Musang (xii) Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Rual, Jeli • There are indigenous students in 7 secondary schools in Gua Musang and Jeli districts. • In addition, beginning 8 April 2019, the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) and Kelantan State Education Department have implemented a Special Project called (ProKHAS) to eradicate the drop out cases from schools of Bateq race in Kampong Kuala Koh and Kampong Aring 5 Gua Musang. Trained teachers were sent to the areas to teach using the MOE curriculum standard. • Reason: The distance from their house to school is between 50km to 150km. • Strategic Partners: JAKOA, KESEDAR, Kota Bharu Teacher Training College and NGOs. • Periodic monitoring is conducted by school administration, District Education Department, State Education Department and the JAKOA department too. • There are 389 schools in Sabah and 651 schools in Sarawak with low enrolment rates of fewer than 150 students in each school. MOE provides comprehensive model school called 19