~newest, revised version of Jababeka II

~newest, revised version of Jababeka II

Jababeka Education Park
Where tomorrow's leaders come together

Only a few technology-based cities are still concerned with
education, and Jababeka, a new city about 35 km east of Jakarta,
is one of these few.

More than anything else, this newly built city nurtures a
strong ambition to be home to an integrated educational area,
where, with the full support from over 1,000 hightech-based
companies, students at all levels can undertake practical study.

Spanning across 5,500 hectares, Jababeka City in Cikarang,
Bekasi now boasts a population close to 1 million. This highly
integrated area, that started construction in early 1989, wanted
to provide itself with international-level educational
facilities, an aspiration that has now been translated into
reality with the establishment of Jababeka Education Park.

Conceptually, this education center has as its origins in an
idea developed by Professor Brian Lee of Singapore's Nanyang
Technological University. The establishment of Jababeka Education
Park is indeed a strategic step towards turning Jababeka into an
educational city. A number of schools, ranging from kindergartens
to international-level state and private universities, have been
established there.

The educational institutions now established in this area are,
among others, President University, President Senior High School,
which is a boarding school, Industrial Mechanical Engineering
College (ATMI), Graduate School of Business Management (MBA) of
Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Continuing Education
Program (CEP) of the Engineering School of the University of
Indonesia, Gunadarma University, STIE Dwipayana, Proven Force
Indonesia of Productivity Improvement Consultant, as well as Al
Azhar and BPK Penabur kindergartens, elementary schools and
junior high schools.

The international community has responded warmly to the
establishment of President University, where English is the
medium of instruction. Now in its third year, President
University, which has its own student dormitory, can boast 500
students.

About 200 of them have come from China and Vietnam, while the
rest come from various regions in Indonesia. Interestingly, 70
percent of the students at this university -- whose motto reads
"Where Tomorrow's Leaders Come Together" -- enjoy full
scholarships.

Regarding efforts to foster and develop the intellectual
ability of the students at President University, Professor Don
Watts, International Chancellor also a former Vice Chancellor
Curtin University & founder Bond University Australia, says that
this university, which is made up of the School of Business, the
School of Engineering and the School of Computing, efforts are
geared towards shaping students' scientific aptitudes in dealing
with daily problems and providing them with the right
competencies to solve these problems.

Meanwhile, the development of the students' personality is set
towards turning them into graduates with strong, but populist,
leadership.

Globalization is indeed unavoidable, and considerably impacts
the economic and educational spheres. "The presence of a
university in an international-standard industrial area is
inevitable. Both establish a mutually beneficial symbiosis that,
at the same time, forms a synergy," said Professor Lee, also the
technical advisor of Jababeka Education Park.

And, indeed, added Setyono Djuandi Darmono, president director
of PT Jababeka Tbk, Jababeka Education Park enjoys the full
support of no fewer than 1,115 domestic and multinational
companies operating in Jababeka Techno Park, such as Unilever,
ICI, Samsung Electronics, Nippon EGI (Sumitomo), Mattel, United
Tractor, Nissan, Kao Indonesia, Video Glass Indonesia, Akzo Nobel
and Stork.

Students at all levels are always welcomed to do their
practical work and practice the theories they have learnt at
school in these companies. In short, Jababeka Education has
become Indonesia's first technology-based education center.

With the inclusion of the concept of link-and-match in the
curriculum, the Education Park will produce highly trained
graduates ready to take up career challenges.

Facilities in all their variety are what PT Jababeka Tbk, the
developer of Kota Jababeka, has always striven to provide. Aside
from the establishment of an industrial area, a housing estate
and an education park and a commercial area, Jababeka Central
Business District is now being developed on a 16-hectare plot of
land.

With the opening in April 2003 of Plaza JB Mal Jababeka and
Jababeka Center in this commercial area, Jababeka Central
Business District has become a center for a leisurely stroll with
stores offering a wide range of necessities ranging from fashion
and beauty products to cellular telephones and banking
facilities.

Meanwhile, the construction of the Capitol Business Park,
including the President Executive Club, is still going on and is
expected to be completed early next year.

Just a modest rural area two decades ago, Jababeka can now
pride itself on being one of Indonesia's icons of development.
Gardens, office compounds, posh houses, a first-class golf course
(Jababeka Golf & Country Club), a shopping center and hotels can
now be found in this dynamic new city.

The establishment of independent towns as satellite cities
often fails, often ending up as a burden on Jakarta because of
the absence of equilibrium in the facilities provided.

Aware of this fact, Kota Jababeka made sure that the
establishment of its educational area, the Jababeka Education
Park, was not separated from its environment, meaning that
graduates of those pursuing studies in this Center will be ready
to take up any employment opportunities that the industrial
enterprises operating in this city might offer.

At present Jababeka is home to about 1,115 industrial
undertakings owned by companies from 21 countries, among others
Japan (104), Korea (122), Malaysia (22), Taiwan (35), Singapore
(27), the United States (19), Australia (12) and Britain (5).

These industrial establishments are made up of 208 large-scale
industrial undertakings or multinational corporations, 496 mid-
scale industrial undertakings or national corporations, 357 mid-
scale industrial businesses and 287 industrial undertakings owned
by small and medium enterprises.

In Kota Jababeka, a Small and Medium Enterprises (UKM) Center
is now under construction. This center, said president director
of PT Jababeka Tbk, Setyono Djuandi Darmono, will accommodate
small- and medium-scale industrial undertakings in a special
cluster.

These industrial undertakings, he said, are important as they
can act as feeders to major industrial establishments. An
automotive company, for example, does not need to outsource the
manufacturing of their spare parts outside Jababeka. In the UKM
Center there will be small-scale vendors that can supply the
automotive company with this particular need.

If you need trained and skilled human resources, they are
available ranging from those with practical skills to experts.
They are graduates from the educational institutions around Kota
Jababeka, or, in particular, from Jababeka Education Park.
Professor Brian Lee, the technical advisor to the Jababeka
Education Park, says that this concept is similar to that adopted
by Singapore.

On August 17, Professor Dr. Muliawati G. Siswanto, M.Eng.Sc.,
Rector of President University, signed an MOU agreement with
Professor Yohanes Surya, Ph.D from Asian Physics Olympiad (Apho).

The MOU signing take place at President University Campus,
compromise the development of President University International
Center for Physic Olympiad, consists of 18 laboratories and
training camp, that will become the center for all the
participants of physic Olympiad from all over Indonesia.

Caption :

DORMITORY: One of dormitory facilities provided by the Jababeka
Education Park for senior high school and university students.

FACTORY: One of the Standard Factory Building in Jababeka
Industrial Park.