Indonesian students not so interested in studying in the Netherlands

Antara ,  Jakarta   |  Thu, 07/03/2008 9:27 PM  |  National

Indonesian students have a low interest in studying in the Netherlands, so they need to be encouraged further, said the Dutch Education Assistance Office (NESO) director Marrik Bellen
here Thursday.

Bellen said only about 500 Indonesian students go to the Netherlands to pursue further studies with scholarships or through a self-funding mechanism every year.

"We will begin a new central registration system with the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta so that we will know the exact number of Indonesian students who go to the Netherlands for further
studies," he said.

He said that compared with Australia and Britain, the Netherlands had not yet become a main destination for Indonesian students due to various reasons.

Bellen said the main reason was that Dutch universities had not being promoted in Indonesia as intensively as  British and Australian ones.

He said the aim of Dutch universities in inviting students was not to seek a profit. They have adopted a public system financed by the government.

The number of international students in the Netherlands reached 50,000 a year, of which 25,000 come from European countries, 19,500 from non-European nations and about 7,000 exchange program students. (**)

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Procrastinator — Fri, 07/04/2008 - 3:28pm

In fact, the Dutch government should provide a full scholarship and generous living allowance for every single Indonesian students wishing to pursue their higher education there.

This should be the continuation of the ethics politics introduced by the colonial government back in the early 1900s to improve the living of Indonesians or should I say Inlanders back then.

Now in the third milennium, the full scholarships should be considered as a payback time to the Indonesian government and people, descendants of people being abused and tortured during the rule of VOC and the Oranje dynasty.

The ancestors of Indonesia helped the Dutch to be what it is now.

I guess, a gush of Indonesian students would stream to the Lower Countries just like in the 1920s. Who knows the students would form the core of new Indonesian leaders just like their forefathers.

However, being a well-known stingy nation as well as a tendency of being Nazi-like racist, the Dutch people might reject a stream of mostly Muslim Indonesian students to its soil so they will put a barrier such as giving priority to Christians or liberal or abangan Muslim and not the good Muslims.

They will of course welkom those with ties to RMS or OPM separatists so that the students could pursue the separatist ideas further and become puppet states of the Nethelands.

Merdeka!

procrastinator

izoel (not verified) — Thu, 07/03/2008 - 11:37pm

yap, it's because Holland is the most highest taxes in European country , correct me if i am wrong! by the latest information that i already know from my friend over there. And the seconds is to much political issues right now in Holland especially after Fitna Movies, Race issues also made Holland like unwelcome country for immigrant people.

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