Students to start rural internship

Students to start rural internship

JAKARTA (JP): One hundred forty students from three
prestigious state universities will descend on the tiny districts
of Jonggol and Cariu in Bogor today to start a rural internship
program, the University of Indonesia (UI) announced yesterday.

The main theme of the program, known by the Indonesian
acronyms KKN, is to help prepare villagers for environmentally
friendly development, the university said in a statement.

Taking part are students from UI, the Bogor Institute of
Agriculture and the Bandung Institute of Technology.

Minister of Transmigration Siswono Yudohusodo will attend the
send-off ceremony at the University of Indonesia campus in Depok,
south of here. Rector M.K. Tadjuddin will head the ceremony and
will present the students to Bogor Regent Eddy Yoso Martadipura.

The 140 students are divided into two groups.

The first, with 60 participants, comprises students from the
three universities under a three-year integrated KKN program. The
other is made up entirely of UI students.

Siswono will also inaugurate a green house and an herbal plant
research center, both of which are expected to support the
students' rural internship program. The two facilities will be
administered by the UI Community Service. (04)