RI awards American scholar

RI awards American scholar

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has awarded noted American
scholar John Bresnan, a senior research associate at the East
Asia Institute of Columbia University, New York, with the Bintang
Jasa Pratama medal.

A state secretariat official said on Tuesday that the
presidential decree for the award was signed by President
Megawati Soekarnoputri on Aug. 12.

The decree says Bresnan is honored for his "outstanding
contribution to the advancement of the teaching, education and
research of the social sciences in Indonesia during his
assignment at the Ford Foundation in Jakarta (1961-1965, 1969-
1974).

Bresnan is the third American after George Kahin of Cornell
and Clifford Geertz of Princeton to have been awarded the
medal.

Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S. Sumadi Brotodiningrat may
confer the medal to Bresnan, the state secretariat official said.
--JP