David Jardine
Australia and Indonesia bind their sometimes strained relationship through Canberra’s progressive aid programme in higher education. Bill Farmer, Australian Ambassador to Jakarta, recently announced that Canberra was offering 300 postgraduate scholarships in Australia to Indonesian students.
There have been numerous low points in the relationship between the two massive neighbours, not least during and just after the 32-year Suharto dictatorship ended in 1998 amid turmoil on university campuses. Perhaps the most critical of those lows occurred during Indonesia's brutal occupation of East Timor and with the Bali and Australian embassy bombings.
The role that cooperation in higher education can play in binding wounds should not be underestimated. Farmer, for his part, clearly understands this, telling the Indonesian media,
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009
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