RI scores largest scholarship batch

RI scores largest scholarship batch

JAKARTA: Seventy Indonesian scholars and students have been
granted Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States, the
American Indonesian Exchange Foundation announced on Thursday.

The Fulbright recipients will study in fields such as American
Literature, Food Technology, Religious Studies, Education,
Business Administration and Law. The students, who come from
higher education institutions throughout Indonesia, will join 27
Indonesian scholars already enrolled in U.S. universities last
year.

The foundation said more than 40 U.S. scholars, students and
professors would travel to Indonesia to take up teaching and
research assignments throughout the country.

"This is the largest single-year total in the Fulbright
Program's 53 year history in Indonesia," the foundation said in a
statement.

Two language programs would start this year, it said. One
would bring recent American university graduates here to help
teach English at high schools, while the other would recruit
Indonesians to assist in the teaching of Indonesian at several
U.S. universities. -- JP