"The three participating countries are Australia, Japan and Malaysia," head of the East Kalimantan education agency Musyahrim said here Monday.
The exhibition will be held for a week from April 30 to May 7, 2011, at the Sempaja stadium in Samarinda, and there will be 180 pavilions for various programs and the results of educational development.
Each of the universities of the three participating countries will provide information on scholarships from Australia, Japan and Malaysia to enable East Kalimantan students to study at the universities.
The pavilions will also provide information on study programs for SMA (senior high) graduates from East Kalimantan, like those in Japan offering a program of Japanese language, technology, and other interesting skills.
Japan became interested in recruiting East Kalimantan students with scholarships to study there because Japan saw the province as having the big potentials for development.
And he said that East Kalimantan still have many natural resources for which reliable students are needed to manage the natural resources.
In the meantime, exhibition participants from Australia are closely related to AusAID, which supports development in education, health and other sectors.
Under an Australian commitment, this institution provides aid to Indonesia worth A$2.5 billion for five years until 2012 or 2013, so that the human resources of East Kalimantan would be better after studying in that country.
Malaysia`s participation was connected with the cooperation betweenthe province and a Malaysian university and therefore it was hoped through the expo there would be students from the province being interested in studying in that country.
"In this context, a Letter Of Intent (LoI) had been made between the East Kalimantan provincial administration and the Malaysian government represented by Malaysian ambassador for Indonesia," Musyahrim said. (*)
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