The
Netherlands has no plans to cut the portion of scholarships it has been
allocating for Indonesians despite the debt crisis currently plaguing the
Eurozone, a Dutch official said here on Tuesday.
“Don't
worry about budgets. We're still offering wide opportunities for Indonesians
who want to study in the Netherlands,” Nuffic NESO Indonesia director Mervin
Bekker told a press gathering in Jakarta.
Nuffic Neso
Indonesia is the official representative of Nuffic -the Netherlands
Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education- in Indonesia;
for all matters concerning Dutch higher education.
Bekker said
the Dutch government was even planning to further expand its partnership with Indonesian
education institutions.
He said the
Netherlands considered Indonesia important in its international education
cooperation policy, citing127 partnerships that had been established between
Dutch and Indonesian higher education institutions, 22 percent of which covered
student exchanges and 19 percent were in the form of research partnerships,
Antara news agency reported.
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