RI researchers receive grants

RI researchers receive grants

JAKARTA: Two senior scholars from the National Institute of
Sciences (LIPI) are among six Indonesians who have been granted
funds by the Nippon Foundation Fellowship/Asian Public
Intellectuals (API) to enable them to conduct studies in
neighboring countries.

The LIPI researchers, Mohammad Azzam Manan and Anas Saidi,
join Slamet Trisutomo of Hasanuddin University in the South
Sulawesi capital of Makassar, as the new Indonesian senior
fellows of the foundation.

Dave Lumenta of a non-governmental organization in East
Kalimantan, Aprilia Budi Hendridjani of Yogyakarta-based Gadjah
Mada University and Tatak Prapti Ujiyati of the private Institute
for Economic and Social Research, Education and Information
(LP3ES) in Jakarta received grants as junior fellows.

The six have arranged their own schedules for carrying out
their studies between June 2002 and May 2003. Each of them
received US$70,000.

This is the second year of the API fellowship program in
Indonesia. A total of 62 researchers applied for this year's
awards.

The Nippon Foundation's director for international relations
and special projects, Tatsuya Tanami, said that the organization
provided $2 million for 60 researchers from 10 Southeast Asian
countries annually. -- JP