India trains 850 Indonesians

India trains 850 Indonesians

JAKARTA: Since 1964 India has trained more than 850 Indonesian
officials and students in various vocational skills, the Indian
Ambassador to Indonesia Shyam Saran has said.

The training programs for Indonesians are still in place, he
told a gathering of Indonesian graduates of Indian universities
in Jakarta on Thursday night.

Mohan Lal, an education and information attache at the Indian
Embassy here, said the program was a follow-up to the education
and training cooperation between the two countries initially
forged in 1964.

He said that apart from regular training courses, India also
invited Indonesian students to take part in short-term courses on
various topics in New Delhi.

India has provided 100 scholarships for masters and doctorate-
degree students from 10 ASEAN countries since 1998, Mohan said,
adding that Indonesia had benefited from this program by sending
450 engineers to study at Roorkee University. --Antara