US and Indonesia to expand university cooperation

Chronicle : At the G-20 summit in Toronto, Presidents Barack Obama of the US and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia announced a joint plan to widen and strengthen ties between the two countries’ higher-education establishments. With $165 million of US funding, the plan will provide support for Indonesians to study in the US, for improvements to Indonesian universities, and for collaborations between universities in the two countries.