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Institute hosts forestry students meeting

BOGOR: At least 50 delegates from six countries have arrived
in Bogor to attend a forum on global forestry education.

Delegates from the Asia-Europe Forestry Exchange Program will
meet on Thursday at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB)
campus in Dermaga to attend the Global Forestry Education forum.

This is the forum's fifth annual meeting but it is the first
time it has been hosted by Indonesia. The other participants are
from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Singapore, and China, along with
delegates from two international organizations involved in
forestry.

At the meeting, leaders of the exchange program will discuss
sending Indonesian forestry studies lecturers and students to
Asian and European countries.

"By sending students and lecturers abroad, we can increase the
quality of forestry studies in Indonesia," said Cecep Kusmana,
the dean of the institute's forestry school.

Indonesia's representative to the program, Yusuf Sudo Hadi,
said the IPB was hosting two exchange students from Swedia
Agriculture University, in Sweden and one from Munich University
in Germany.

IPB has also sent a student to Munich University.--JP