Ford provides grants for Indonesia

Ford provides grants for Indonesia

JAKARTA: The Ford Motor Company has awarded total grants of US$45,000
to an Indonesian citizen and four institutions to finance their
nature conservation, and cultural and historical artifact
research projects.

The four institutions are Yayasan Indonesia Hijau, Yayasan
Tumbuh Mandiri Indonesia, the University of Indonesia's Batu Jaya
archeological team and Yayasan Terumbu Karang Indonesia, the
company said in a press release.

The individual grantee was not named in the press release.

The grants will be used to finance an education program in the
Seribu Islands National Park (Yayasan Indonesia Hijau), a
mangrove forest rehabilitation project in Wajo regency, Sulawesi
(Yayasan Tumbuh Mandiri), an archeological study of the Baturaja
artifacts in Kerawang, West Java (the University of Indonesia
team), the cultivation and monitoring of ornamental coral reefs
and the breeding of groupers in Indonesia (Yayasan Terumbu
Karang).

The five grantees successfully beat off 44 other grant
applicants.

Minister of Culture and Tourism I Gde Ardika was among the
nine jurors in the competition. -- JP