VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

Several Ethiopian universities are keen to establish cooperation with their Indonesian counterparts in the field of research and exchange of teaching staff and students. Indonesian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and African Union Al Busyra Basnur said representatives of Bahir Dar University and Hawassa, University of Ethiopia visited several universities in Indonesia in 2016 and 2018 as part of effort to explore the cooperation. In 2016, Bahir Dar University and Sebelas Maret University in Surakarta, Central Java, signed the first memorandum of understanding between institutes of higher learning in the two countries. The Indonesian Embassy in Addis Ababa had originally planned to organize several activities involving institutes of higher learning in Indonesia and Ethiopia in the first semester of 2020 however, the activities were postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Another Indonesian university that is also keen to cooperate with Ethiopian university is Budi Luhur University in Jakarta. He expressed hope that a delegation of the university will visit Ethiopia soon after the COVID-19 pandemic is under control//ANT