SIN WASSENAAR WELCOMES INDONESIAN ATTACHÉS OF EDUCATION

Wassenaar Campus — It is a great honour and pleasure for SIN Wassenaar to warmly welcome and host the closing session of the Indonesian Attachés of Education Coordination Meeting and Workshop, at its campus, Friday afternoon, 27 May 2011. These phrases of respect, gratitude and hospitality were delivered by Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati in her welcoming speech on behalf of SIN Wassenaar. The delegation comprised the Attachés and entourage from 15 Indonesian diplomatic missions world-wide, as well as the officials from the Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Finance. The main activities of the coordination meeting and workshop had taken place few days earlier in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Before proceeding to the workshop concluding session, Head of Planning and International Cooperation Bureau – Ministry of National Education, Mr. Ananto Kusuma Seta, emphasised the Ministry’s full support for SIN Wassenaar to obtain a “foreign school” status in The Netherlands. He also projected SIN Wassenaar as the centre of distance learning for Western Europe region. The Ministry is open for proposals to develop such centre of excellence in every aspects, including learning facility and software, fund, moduls and teachers, etc. Furthermore, Mr. Ananto applauded SIN Wassenaar for the successful outcome of the SMA national final exams and there will be an SILN competition to motivate their SMA students to achieve the optimum grade. Those who are among the Top-10 of the average grade of the nationally examined subjects will be rewarded with “Unggulan Scholarship”. SIN Wassenaar’s role as a centre of Indonesian language and culture caught his compliments as well.

Our Attaché of Education, Mr. Ramon Mohandas informed us that the delegation consisted of (excluding the entourage):

I. Officials from the Ministry of National Education:

1. Mr. Ananto Kusuma Seta, Head of Planning and International Cooperation Bureau – Ministry of National Education
2. Ms. Yun Widiati, Head of International Service Facility Division,  Planning and International Cooperation Bureau
3. Mr. Robert Hedy Soerijayudha, Head of Attachés of Education and Indonesian Schools Overseas Sub-division, International Service Facility Division

II. Attachés of Education (in alphabetical order):

1. Mr. Aris Junaidi, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Canberra
2. Mr. Chaerul Anwar, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Beijing
3. Mr. Didik Sulistyanto, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok
4. Mr. Didik Wisnu, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby
5. Mr. Edison Munaf, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo
6. Mr. Haryo Winarso, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
7. Mr. Muhammad Luthfi Zuhdi, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Riyadh
8. Ms. Paristiyanti Nurwardani, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Manila
9. Mr. Ramon Mohandas, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in The Hague
10. Mr. Rusdi Thaib, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
11. Mr. Sangidu Asofa, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Cairo
12. Mr. Son Kuswadi, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in New Delhi
13. Mr. Syafsir Akhlus, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Paris
14. Mr. TB AF Soelaiman, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in London
15. Mr. Yul Nazarudin, Attaché of Education, Indonesian Embassy in Berlin

III. Officials from the Ministry of Finance:

1. Mr. Oscar Siregar
2. Mr. Kuwat Waluyo

It is also important to underline Mr. Ananto’s statement that Indonesia’s emerging leverage in the G-20 has brought it to the position of “donor while recipient country” in the flux of international cooperation fund; no longer simply as a “recipient country” as it once was. This stronger position would flush it to be potentially another member of the BRIC bloc, a new donor nation in the making, especially in the areas of international education cooperation.

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