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Indonesia-UK Interdisciplinary Sciences Forum: Enabling Global Health Security - UK Embassy 

Indonesian Embassy in UK host a virtual event on Thursday (25/02/21) with the theme Indonesia-UK Interdisciplinary Sciences Forum: Enabling Global Health Security. Recently Indonesia and the UK have struck an agreement to strengthen research partnership between the two countries and for the first time a collaboration of six major universities, the UK-Indonesia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Sciences (UKICIS), motored by Indonesian diaspora academics in the UK has been established to build global resilience against pandemics. 

"Our partnership with Indonesia is very special one, delighted to learn that the UK has become one in the top five partners in research and innovation. And the partnership created between our researchers will serve our communities incredible well. And I also welcoming the sigining of memorandum of understanding on sciences collaboration today. The extraordinary impact of covid-19 and the global response to the pandemic has demonstrated the vital importants of research collaboration and the significance of science and research on the heart of government to government cooperation. And despite the chalanging context in wich we will all be working on sometime the United Kingdom is committed in supporting research and science in our international partnership" UK’s Minister of state, foreign, commonwealth and development office (FCDO), Nigel Adams said.  

"This type of international collaboration has been one of our strategy to improve research quality and promoting more innovation in Indonesia. We are already develop some collaboration with other countries also with several universities but I think the UKICIS scheme is quite unique because it is innitiated by the Indonesians who happens to be diaspora in three universities in UK and they are collaborating with their counterpart in Indonesia and thankfully today we can witnessed the signing for this understanding and we hope the UKICIS will function fully when is already in effect" Indonesian technology and research Minister, Bambang Brojonegoro stated. 

On the similar event, UK Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Owen Jenkins reveal that Indonesia and UK partnership on research and innovation is strong and fundamental to the development of both countries in combating covid-19 pandemic. On the other hand Indonesian Ambassador to UK, Desra Percaya said that this partnership is a new era in science and innovation and priority of the ambassadorship as mandated by President Joko Widodo to accelerate Indonesia’s human capital development in achieving sustainable economic growth as well as contributing to address global challanges//NK-VOI