The United States will spend $165-million over the next five years on programs to help strengthen higher education in Indonesia through educational exchanges and university partnerships, President Obama and Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, announced Sunday at a meeting at the G-20 summit in Toronto.
The two leaders also agreed to hold a joint higher-education summit next summer.
Cooperative work on higher education is a key pillar of the bilateral relationship between the two countries, with the United States working to expand higher-education opportunities in the fast-growing Muslim-majority democracy. Although the Indonesian government now spends 20 percent of its budget on education, with most of those funds going to primary and secondary education, the country lacks the capacity to meet its educational needs.
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