65 IPB students get

65 IPB students get
German scholarships

JAKARTA: Germany has awarded scholarships to 65 students from
tsunami-hit Aceh and North Sumatra studying at the Bogor
Institute of Agriculture (IPB), the German Embassy in Jakarta
said.

In a simple ceremony on Wednesday held on the IPB campus in
Bogor, Sur Place scholarships -- which were funded by the Donors'
Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in
Germany -- were given to 65 needy postgraduate students.

The ceremony was chaired by IPB rector Prof. A. Ansori Mattjik
and attended by Dorothea Roland, the deputy secretary-general of
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Andre Scholz, the
embassy's press and cultural attache.

The scholarships are part of a larger aid program of the DAAD
for tsunami victims.

"Since early this year, a total of 865 students from Nanggroe
Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra studying at universities all
over Indonesia were given grants for a maximum period of one
year, Scholz told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

Out of 865, at least 703 scholarships are funded by the German
Federal Ministry of Developmental Cooperation. -- JP