Indonesians win trip to South Korea

Indonesians win trip to South Korea

JAKARTA: Four Indonesian high school and university students
will get the chance to visit various places in South Korea after
they were declared on Tuesday as winners of a writing contest on
South Korea.

The writing contest, the eighth edition, was organized by the
South Korean Embassy and the National Education Ministry with
1,431 entries from all over Indonesia to improve Indonesia's
understanding of South Korea.

The South Korean ambassador in Jakarta Yun Hai-jun and the
ministry's director general for elementary education Indra Djati
Sidi were present at the awards ceremony.

In the high school category, Sofi Sofiatin of Cianjur, West
Java won and Rahmawati Rahman of Tenggarong, East Kalimantan was
the runner-up.

Nur Rakhman Sasmita of Brawijaya University in Malang, East
Java and Imam Risdiyanto of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta
were named the winner and runner-up in the university category
respectively.

The winners and an official from the ministry are set to leave
for South Korea on Tuesday evening and return on Dec. 15.

Each winner also got prize money of Rp 1 million (US$117)
while the runners-up got Rp 500,000 each. -- JP