REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANTUL - Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been supporting vocational education in Indonesia by providing a soft loan worth 80 million USD. The money is poured to finance Indonesia Vocational Education Strengthening Projects (INVEST) for the 2008-2013 period.
"We finance projects for 90 vocational schools across 33 provinces in Indonesia. So far, the projects have been running efficiently thanks to good cooperation between project managers at the Ministry of National Education and the officers from ADB," said Jon D Lindborg, the Country Director for ADB`s Indonesia Resident Mission, on Friday.
He stated that each school received between 300,000 USD and 600,000 USD to finance projects involving renovation of classrooms, laboratories, libraries and office buildings. A part of the fund is also allocated for training teachers and students.
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