Increase the government budget to fund scholarships to promising students and professors for higher education abroad.

Increase visa opportunities for foreign professors to teach in Indonesia's strategically chosen field of science in which we like to excel, or, even better

Establish campuses for an Indonesian "Harvard" or Indonesian "MIT" with their educational standards, quality, and with in-residence professors (with generous pay).

Strategically select specific fields of science that Indonesia may excel in mobilize the academic powers domestically and internationally, establish a "Silicon Valley" of Indonesia.

This will be a center that aggressively aims to translate research activities to revenue-producing goods or products.

While we reform the educational system, let us also acquire science and technology in a fast-track mode with measureable short- and long-term goals. As a nation we have been wallowing in the mud of corruption and sectarian issues that have wasted our energy for nation building.

Be practical, transcend the primordial issues that tear us apart and let us move forward. I wish the best for Anita Lie and all the other professional educators of Indonesia, whose educational services the nation need to advance our country from backwardness to the thriving and successful nation we can be.

James Waworoendeng
California

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