Over 500
Indonesian students will leave for the Netherlands in pursuit of higher
education, according to the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta on Monday.
“Through
education, I am optimistic that the bilateral relationship between the two
countries will be improved,” Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd F. de Zwaan
said in a press statement as quoted by Antara news agency.
The
statement says that the students include recipients of Dutch
government-sponsored scholarships, namely StuNed, the Netherlands Fellowship Program
and the Huygens Scholarship Program.
There are
also recipients of Erasmus Mundus and Ford Foundation scholarships as well as
those sponsored by the Indonesian Communications and Information Ministry,
National Education Ministry and National Development Planning Ministry.
Data from
Nuffic Neso Indonesia shows that 65 percent of the students will be pursuing
Master's degrees while 28 percent are in undergraduate programs, Antara
reported.
On
Saturday, Zwaan, Nuffic Neso Indonesia director Marrik Bellen and the
Indonesian Foreign Ministry director for Western Europe, Dewa Made Juniarta
Sastrawan, officially bid the students farewell in an event in Jakarta, the
statement said.
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