Indonesia sets sights on African students

The world’s most populous muslim nation is actively endorsing “educational diplomacy” by developing partnerships between its universities and their African equivalents and advertising alternatives such as the Ministry of Training and Culture’s Partnership for Producing Nations around the world scholarships initiative. 

Indonesian universities will maintain joint collaboration packages which include personnel and university student exchanges and joint research, which will also see teaching staff members in Africa progress their scientific tests in Indonesian universities.

“The Indonesian embassy in Nairobi has actively promoted instructional diplomacy”

Scholarships will be issued to African college students and lecturers to analyze at Indonesian universities as section of the Asian country’s prepare to “expand and enhance” relations between Indonesia and Africa. 

“So much, the Indonesian embassy in Nairobi has actively promoted instructional diplomacy, like scholarships managed by Education and learning Ministry under the Partnership for Acquiring International locations (KNB) scholarships as very well as all those available independently by many universities Indonesia,” said Mohamad Hery Saripudin, Indonesian ambassador to the East African nations around the world of Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The envoy, who a short while ago led a delegation from his state into conferences with universities in the location, said that nations in East Africa were targeted with opportunities for finding out in Indonesian universities in just the framework of Sister College cooperation.

Just one of the universities frequented by the delegation was Umma College, a university in Kenya that operates under Islamic values and practices.  

Whilst Indonesia also trails its neighbours such as Singapore in attracting foreign learners, calls for a additional intense force for African learners have been escalating due to the fact 2015 when reportedly considerably less than 1000 Africans were finding out there.

Cultural shock, language barrier and the education method utilized in the region have been cited as some of the explanations why the Asian country is not a well-known desired destination for Africans.