'Darmasiswa Scholarship'

The Indonesian Government is offering "Darmasiswa Scholarship" to the people of Sri Lanka who aspire to learn about Indonesian Arts, Culture and Language in one of the 47 universities in Indonesia. The program, which aim is encouraging better cultural understanding, will let the participants to learn the uniqueness of Indonesian arts and culture and give participants the chance of experience Indonesia. The fields of studies are Bahasa Indonesia, gamelan music, dance art, music art, ethnomusicology, puppetry, culinary, applied art, handicraft, photography and batik art.

There are two kind of Darmasiswa program. One is one year program, the other is 6 months program. This scholarship offers a full tuition fee and monthly allowance.

However, the Darmasiswa RI does not cover flight costs from the country of origin to Indonesia and vice versa.

The submission of application is due by the end of January 2011 through Indonesian Embassy in Colombo, 400/50, Sarana Road, Colombo 7. The announcement of the scholarship recipient will be the beginning of April 2011.

Some of the requirements of candidate's documents include completing form, have completed secondary education, not more than 35 years, in good health, 5 pieces of passport size photograph, copy of passport valid for at least 18 months from arrival in Indonesia and has English proficiency.

For more details regarding the university and the field of studies, please log on to www.indonesia-colombo.lk