Russia wants cooperation in education with RI

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 02/14/2009 2:19 PM  

Russia has held discussion with Indonesia to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in education, Antara has reported. 

Aji Surya, a counselor at the Indonesian Embassy in Moscow said Saturday that the Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko had held a meeting with Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Hamid Awaluddin on Friday at the embassy. 

In the meeting, the Russian minister delivered an invitation for his Indonesian counterpart National Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo for a meeting to discuss the Russian proposal and to sign the MoU on April. 

Hamid said in the meeting that the Indonesian government looks forward more scholarship for Indonesian students in Russia and more Russian language lecturers to come to Indonesia. 

Hamid also told the Russian minister that Bambang had planned to visit Moscow after attending a UNESCO meeting in Bonn, Germany, late March 2009. (dre)