RI offers teachers to Brunei
RI offers teachers to Brunei
JAKARTA: Indonesia, which has a large number of professional teachers, is offering Brunei some of its teachers not only for elementary schools but also for universities.
"The offer proves that Indonesia is able to not only send housemaids, but is also ready to export professional teachers," State Minister for Communications and Information Syamsul Mu'arif said on Monday.
The government, Syamsul said, would not only send personnel to work in the informal sector, but also the formal sector like teaching.
The minister made the remarks at his office when he received a six-member delegation from Brunei's information ministry.
During their stay in Indonesia, the delegation is scheduled to visits several offices, including the National Information Institute, television station Metro TV, newspaper Media Indonesia and the official news agency Antara.
They will also visit small industrial centers in Bandung, West Java; Indonesia in Miniature Park in East Jakarta and Sea World at the Ancol recreational site in North Jakarta. -- Antara
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Haj dormitories in Saudi Arabia
SURABAYA: Director General of Islam Affairs and Haj Pilgrimage Taufik Kamil said here on Monday that the government planned to build two haj dormitories to temporarily accommodate haj pilgrims from Indonesia in Saudi Arabia.
"We've prepared the plan and established a consortium in charge of studying the possibility of building the facilities and of processing licensing from the Saudi government," he said during a visit to the haj dormitory in Surabaya.
Taufik, who is also chairman of the central committee for the haj pilgrimage, said that the two dormitories will be built in Mispala and Ummul Quro, respectively 900 meters and 1,000 meters away from the Masjidil Haram Mosque.
The two dormitories were designed to have a combined capacity for 150,000 people, he said.
"The establishment of the dormitories in Saudi Arabia is expected to help contain complaints about accommodation," he said.
Taufik explained that the study had been conducted by a Saudi conglomerate specializing in the property business with the help of national businessman Fadel Muhammad, who acted as middleman.
Taufik said that the dormitories would be equipped with a hall, a clinic, a mosque and a supermarket. -- Antara