Singapore Intercultural School, Indonesia

The SIS Group of Schools cater to students from preschool to junior college based on an international curriculum.

The group also has schools established in India (Mumbai and Chennai), Korea (Gwangju) and Myanmar (Yangon).

The inspiration drawn from that meeting set the wheels in motion for the first SIS pilot school campus.

The expertise of one of Singapore's most respected educational leaders, Mr. Eugene Wijeyhsingha (former principal of Raffles Institution) was utilized to give the school a good foundation.

With the rising enrolment and also to cater to the international community, the school was moved to a larger premises in January 1999 at Gandaria in South Jakarta.

Finally in January 2002, the group's flagship school, SIS South Jakarta (formerly SIS Bona Vista) opened the doors to its new building in the Bona Vista complex in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta site with enrolment reaching 400 students from many nationalities.

SIS Group of Schools board director is led by Alvin Hew, who is based in Singapore and is Group Managing Director of Southgate Ventures Pte Ltd. Alvin has played a major role in advising the trajectory of the school and drive the growth of SIS in Indonesia and other regions.

In September 2013, SIS South Jakarta became officially authorised as an IB World School (International Baccalaureate).

Located in Lebak Bulus, near the elite Pondok lndah and Cilandak neighbourhoods, SIS South Jakarta is two minutes from both the Outer Ring Road and the Lebak Bulus MRT station making it accessible from many parts of Jakarta.

The school has a well equipped library, grass football pitch, full-court basketball, badminton, outdoor swimming pool, hybrid indoor/outdoor cafeteria, world-class biology and chemistry labs, student lounge, religious studies centres, music hall and plenty of open green areas for informal gathering and learning.