Two Indonesians win science awards in France

JAKARTA: Two Indonesian PhD students at French universities have won this year’s Mahar Schutzenberger Awards from the AFIDES Foundation.

The award is granted to research that makes major contributions to science and technology.

The students are Kadarusman, currently studying at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, and Hananto Prakoso, studying at Paris Est-Creteil University in Paris.

“Their research is of a high quality and is innovative, offering clear solutions to Indonesia’s current biodiversity, transportation and economic problems,” AFIDES president Helen Schutzenberger said on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.

Kadarusman’s research is focused on the rainbow fish species that inhabits Papua’s bird head area, while Hananto presented his analysis of the relationship between the labor market and the need to build better infrastructure.