REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON - Indonesia garnered the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for its success in research and utilization of nuclear science and technology to breed food crops.

According to a spokesman of the Indonesian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, Dody Kusumonegoro,  on Thursday that the Radiation and Isotope Application Center at the Indonesian National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan) has successfully utilized nuclear science and technology to breed food crops, and therefore, it was entitled to the award.

Dody remarked that the award was conferred on Indonesian Ambassador to Austria Rachmat Budiman in the presence of Batan Chief Djarot Wisnubroto on the sidelines of the 58th annual regular session of the IAEA General Conference on September 22-26, 2014, in Vienna.

Budiman stated that through the technical cooperation with the IAEA, since 2012  Indonesia had assisted numerous countries for capacity building in the application of nuclear technology in the fields of food, agriculture, health, and industry. He noted that it was part of Indonesia's support for the program of International Peaceful Uses Initiative and the Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC).

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