The initiative adopted President Prabowo Subianto’s go to to France in late May, the place he met French President Emmanuel Macron and agreed to strengthen research and tutorial partnerships.
The cooperation goals to develop options for improvement challenges dealing with each international locations.
Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Brian Yuliarto welcomed the partnership, notably efforts to advertise research with sensible advantages.
“Indonesia’s biodiversity and mineral resources can be combined with France’s technological strengths and research capacity to create innovation and support industrial downstreaming,” he mentioned.
Yuliarto additionally known as for increasing tutorial mobility packages between the 2 international locations.
He mentioned Indonesia needed to deliver extra overseas professors and researchers to show, conduct joint research and construct networks with native universities.
“We are opening broader opportunities for French professors and researchers to become visiting professors at Indonesian universities,” he added.
French Ambassador to Indonesia Fabien Penone mentioned education, research and tutorial mobility stay priorities in bilateral strategic relations.
“France continues encouraging broader research cooperation with Indonesia, including greater involvement from French research institutions,” Penone mentioned.
Valerie Verdier, chief govt of the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), mentioned the establishment has partnered with Indonesian universities and research facilities for 5 many years.
IRD companions embrace Gadjah Mada University, Bandung Institute of Technology, IPB University and a number of different tutorial establishments.
The cooperation covers areas together with geoscience, catastrophe mitigation, maritime affairs, biodiversity, environmental conservation and sustainable improvement.
Both sides mentioned they hoped to expand joint research, researcher exchanges, tutorial mobility and collaborative packages supported via joint funding.
They additionally mentioned cooperation alternatives in synthetic intelligence, quantum know-how, area know-how, nuclear know-how and different strategic sectors.
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Translator: Sean Filo M, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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