Many students in Indonesia live in poor, rural areas. As the schools remain closed since March, they often have to travel miles or climb trees to get a mobile phone signal and access online classes. In effect, many students do their lessons on smartphones and a single laptop on the streets. In North Sumatra, students climb to the tops of tall trees a mile from their mountain village. Some dedicated teachers in remote areas travel long distances and give face-to-face lessons to small groups of students in their homes.Today, about 13 million people across 12,500 remote villages have no access to the internet, said Setyanto Hantoro, president director of Telkomsel, the country’s largest telecommunications company, which is cooperating with the government to provide service in far-flung areas.“More than a third of Indonesian students have limited or no internet access, according to the Education Ministry, and experts fear many students will fall far behind, especially in remote areas where online study remains a novelty.” write Richard Paddock and Dera Sijabat for the New York Times.