Dear Readers!

It‘s already May 2013 and we have said good bye to all our new research scholarship awardees. We wish them good luck in pursuing a higher education in Germany and we hope you all have a good read of our third edition of the DAAD Jakarta Newsletter!

Earlier in April 2013, DAAD Jakarta announced the call for application of its Public Policy and Good Governance scholarships. The Development Related Postgraduate Courses have also been opened for all professionals who hold an undergraduate degree which is not older than 6 years and who are interested in continuing their studies in Germany. We hope to receive lots of interesting applications and may the best applicants be awarded scholarship grants in accordance with their particular study interests.

Besides scholarships news, the German Indonesian Interfaith Dialogues as well as dialogue topics concerning DAAD alumni might be interesting for all the loyal DAAD Newsletter readers. Hopefully, this newsletter will help all of you find whatever information you need. We are looking forward to your comments and suggestions. Kind regards, Dr. Irene Jansen

Volume2 Edition 3 May 2013

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Special Topic:

DAAD‘s interview on Dialogue with Islam

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NEW: DAAD Master & Doctoral Scholarships 2013/2014 and Fellowships

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Indonesia-Germany Interfaith & Intercultural Dialogue

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Strengthening Early Independent Research

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Information from Alumni Medan (FKIJ)

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German Universities promote themselves

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DAAD: Political and diplomatic relations between Germany and Indonesia are very well established. Why do we need an interfaith dia-logue?

Botschafter Kreft: Both our countries are culturally and religiously diverse nations. Hence it has been the initiative of t h e I n d o n e s i a n President Yudhoyono to enlarge the broad bilateral relations by

an interfaith dialogue. As the German Foreign Ministry has i n c l u d e d t h e “Dialogue with Islam” since 2002 as a new focus of our foreign policy with Muslim majority countries, we have welcomed this

proposal.

DAAD: Why has the topic of education been chosen as the main focus of this third interfaith dialogue conference?

Botschafter Kreft: Education, including religious education, is pivotal to overcome stereotypes about “the other“ and at the same time to diffuse tensions in religiously and culturally diverse countries. This holds t r u e f o r m a n y countries of the world,

including Indonesia. It has been confirmed b y I n d o n e s i a n scholars and partici-pants of the dialogue

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that investing in education is crucial for maintaining peace between the different religious and ethnic groups. Special attention should be given to textbooks, curricula and the

training of teachers.

DAAD: The Foreign Office has initiated a special funding scheme worth 400 million Euros. The idea is to support innovative cooperation projects that lend themselves to the new structures

and priorities of the Arab world and other countries with a major-ity population of Muslims. Why are such cooperation projects of special interest to Germany?

Botschafter Kreft: The Arab world is part of our direct neighbourhood. The situation in Arab countries has imme-diate influence on Germany and Europe as a whole. Therefore Germany and Europe have a great interest to assist those countries,

who are in the process of transforming, to be success-ful in their efforts to create more democratic, more pluralistic and more inclusive societies. We are convinced that this is, at least in the medium term, the best option to create stability in our southern neighbourhood so that the Mediterranean can become again a sea of part-nership and cooperation and

not a borderline. With the Arab Spring, parties of political Islam have taken over political responsibility. Many Egyptians and Tuni-sians, for example, take Turkey as their role model for political and economic development. Indonesia would be at least as much of a suitable model and thus worthwhile to look at, in particular for a country like Egypt, with its 90 percent Muslims and 10% Christian population. Indonesia is known for its moderate Islam and its efforts to further

Master‘s scholarship for Public Policy and Good Governance

At eight universities in Germany For further information, see here

Master‘s scholarship for Development-Related Postgraduate Course

At 30 universities in Germany

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Doctoral scholarship for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses

At three universities in Germany

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Graduate School Scholarship Programme

At 30 universities in Germany

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BGHS Visiting Fellowships

At Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology

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Sustainable Water Management Summer School 2013

At Ilmenau University of Technology

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NEW: DAAD Master & Doctoral Scholarships 2013/2014 and Fellowships

Currently DAAD Jakarta has 3 scholarship offers and several fellowship offers. For all DAAD friends who are interested to continue studies and want to attain a Master Degree or a Doctoral Degree, please read the information below and apply for a full scholarship from DAAD!

Hier das Thema „Im Brennpunkt“

Indonesia-Germany Interfaith & Intercultural Dialogue

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Pada tanggal 2 Oktober 2012 Dr. Noorhaidi Hasan dari Fakultas Syariah dan Hukum Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga di Yogyakarta dan Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider dari Fakultas Humaniora Universitas Gö t t ingen Jerman, menanda tangan i Memorandum of Understanding antara kedua universitas. Penandatanganan tersebut merupakan hasil dari proses yang berlangsung selama kira-kira dua setengah tahun, mulai dengan konferensi “First Indonesia-Germany Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue“ yang dilaksanakan pada Juni 2010 di UIN Sunan K a l i j a g a . Penandatanganan tersebut merupakan tahap baru dalam kerjasama antara Gö t t i ngen dan Y o g y a k a r t a . K e r j a s a m a i n i didukung penuh oleh DAAD dalam rangka program “Dialogue with the Islamic world“. Untuk tahun 2013 sudah ada rencana lengkap yang meliputi dua bidang, yakni pen-didikan dan riset ilmiah. Di bidang riset kedua pihak merencana-kan dua konferensi, satu di Jerman pada tanggal 22 – 24 Mai dan satu di Indonesia pada bulan November. Dalam rangka konferensi pertama sepuluh orang pakar dari Yogyakarta berangkat ke Jerman, termasuk lima orang post-doc dan lima orang yang masih menulis skripsi di tingkatan lebih rendah (S1 dan S2). Mereka semua akan mendiskusikan makalah dan berpartisipasi dengan pakar dari Jerman di konferensi dan di sebuah workshop. Topiknya adalah ”Islamic Gender Discourse and Legal Thought“. Konferensi di Yogyakarta akan bertema „Islamic Law and Legal Order“. Di samping kedua konferensi tersebut kedua pihak berencana mengadakan pertukaran dosen dan mahasiswa. Pada tahun 2013 satu mahasiswa

On October 2nd, 2012 Dr. Noorhaidi Hasan from the Faculty of Sharia and Law Islamic State University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta and Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider from the Faculty of Humanity University Göttingen Germany signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the both universities. The signing of the MoU is a result of an on-going process for the past two and a half years; initiated after the conference “First Indonesia-Germany Interfaith and Inter-cultural Dialogue” which was held in June 2010 at UIN Sunan Kalijaga. This ceremony was also a new stage of the co-operation between

Göttingen and Yogya-karta. This co-operation is fully supported by DAAD hence it is in the framework of “Dialogue with the Islamic world.” For the year

2013 a complete project

has been planned en-

compassing two fields,

namely education and

scientific research. In

the research field both

parties plan to hold two

conferences, one in

Germany, it will be held

on May 22nd to 24th and

the other will be held in

Indonesia in November. For the first conference

ten experts from Yogyakarta will come to

Germany, including five post-Docs and five

students which are currently writing their final

paper for their undergraduate and graduate

degrees (S1 and S2). They all will be discussing

their papers and participating together with the

experts from Germany in that conference and

workshop. The topic will be “Islamic Gender

Discourse and Legal Thought”. The conference in

Yogyakarta has the topic “Islamic Law and Legal

Order”. Besides holding the two conferences,

both parties plan to have an exchange of lecturers

and students.

Strengthening Early

Independent

Research

The new Helmholz

Postdoc Programme is

targeted at young

researchers who are

either about to com-

plete or already have

completed their doc-

torate less than one

year ago at a German

or foreign research

institution. It aims to

promote early in-

dependent research

and develop academic

excellence. Two to

three years funding will

give junior researchers

the opportunity to work

independently on a

subject of their choice

immediately after com-

pleting their doctorate.

Interested in this oppor-

tunity, for more

information:

www.helmholtz.de

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akan berangkat ke Jerman selama

lima bulan dan satu mahasiswa

Jerman juga akan datang ke Indo-

nesia selama lima bulan. Selama di

negera tamu, kami akan memprak-

tekkan sistem tandem, maksudnya

adalah tamunya bekerja sama

dengan seorang mahasiswa dari

universitas tuan rumah. Dengan cara

begini kami ingin mendukung dialog

dan riset lintas budaya. Kami juga

merencanakan pertukaran dosen-

dosen jangka pendek pada tahun

2014. Dan dalam jangka waktu tiga

tahun, kedua pihak mencoba

mendirikan double degree di jalur

studi hukum Islam. Untuk memu-

dahkan pertukaran mahasiswa dan

dosen, pihak Göttingen sudah me-

mulai dengan pendidikan bahasa

Indonesia. Dalam kursus pertama 13

mahasiswa sudah menyelesaikan

tahap pertama pendidikan bahasa

Indonesia dari dua tahap. Hasil riset

yang diraih dalam proses kerja sama

antara Göttingen dan Yogyakarta

akan dipublikasikan dalam seri yang

akan dihasilkan bersama dengan

nama “Studies in Islamic Philoso-

phy and Law”. Selain itu makalah

dan skripsi-skripsi kecil rencananya

akan dipublikasikan dalam bentuk

seri elektronik yang terpisah.

Semua kegiatan dalam rangka

kerjasama antara Göttingen dan

Yogyakarta diharapkan1. membangun

dialog antara budaya, 2. tertuju

kepada modernisasi pendidikan dan

riset, 3. promosi riset di bidang

Islamic Studies , 4.mendukung

perkembangan generasi ilmiah yang

baru, dan 5. mendirikan network

ilmuwan dan universitas antara

Jerman dan Indonesia di bidang

Islamic Studies.

In 2013 one Indonesian

student will go to Germany for five

months and one German student will

come to Indonesia for five months.

During the stay at the host country,

we will practice the tandem system,

meaning the guest student will work

together with one of the host students.

By doing this we would like to en-

courage dialogues and research

between cultures. We also plan to ex-

change short term lecturers in 2014.

And it is expected that in the period of

three years both parties can establish

a double degree in the study course

of Islamic Law. To ease the exchange

of students and lecturers, University

Göttingen has started Bahasa Indo-

nesian course. In the first course

thirteen students have completed the

first level from two levels offered. Re-

search results obtained in the co-

operation between Göttingen and

Yogyakarta will be published in a

series called “Studies in Islamic

Philosophy and Law”. Besides that,

the working papers and final papers

will also be published in a separate

digital series.

All activities in the framework

of co-operation between Göttingen

and Yogyakarta is expected to

1.establish dialogue between cultures,

2. enhance and modernize education

and research, 3. promote research in

the field of Islamic Studies, 4. support

the advancement of new generation

scientist, and 5. establish a scientist

network and university network

between Germany and Indonesia in

the field of Islamic Studies.

DAAD’s director Dr. Irene Jansen’s, former rector of Ilmenau University of Technology Germany Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Heinrich Kern’s and former rector Swiss German University Jakarta Prof. Dr. Peter Al. Pscheid‘s visit to Medan for two days brought up to date information to the people of North Sumatera about study and research opportunities in Germany. “The visit of DAAD’s director and the delegation of Ilmenau Univer-sity of Technology Germany indi-cate that the city Medan is receiv-ing great attention from the German representatives’ institu-tions”, says head of the Indonesian Germany Communication Forum (FKIJ) Binaman Kasan. Dipl.-Inform. Univ.

Changes and Contribution of DAAD In her presentation, Jansen con-veyed that DAAD is an organiza-tion that supports international co-operation of academics between Germany and various countries of the world. In the past years, DAAD has contributed between 700 and 900 scholarships per year for the exchange of students and acade-micians from Germany and Indonesia. DAAD was initially established in Heidelberg in 1925, Jansen said, with the purpose to internationalize German universities and German research. In Germany there are over 300 high-quality universities with great international reputation. She emphasized that in order to receive a scholarship grant from DAAD, not only the formal pre-requisites such as GPA score and TOEFL must be fulfilled, but pre-paration for the interview must also be taken seriously. Many candi-dates fail to receive a scholarship because of the lack of preparation for the interview. Binaman’s impression of this dele-

gation visit is that Germany really welcomes students and academi-cians from the region Sumatera to study and research in Germany. During this visit it was also mentioned that at Ilmenau Univer-sity alone, around 50 students and academicians are Indonesians who are studying and conducting research in Germany. According to Binaman as the former director of education and training in the field of “Computer Assisted Learning” and as an observer of education technology, the information men-tioned above indicates astonishing interests among Indonesians to study in Germany. In just one uni-versity, one can find up to fifty Indonesians!

International Degree An important issue that the public as well as the Indonesian society must be aware of is that universi-ties in Germany that used to offer academic degrees such as the German “Diplom” or abbreviated “Dipl.-“. nowadays offer degrees such as B.Sc. and B.A. (Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts) as well as Master degrees (M.Sc. and M.A.); this applies to Ilmenau Uni-versity in Germany. The alumni and I highly appreciate this policy which is also supported by DAAD. DAAD welcomes such internationally recognized degrees and internationally relevant curri-cula as well as Double Degrees. This internationalization process among the universi-ties in Germany has a substantial mean-ing which effects he accreditation and equality of graduate s t u d e n t s f r o m German universities. T h e u n i v e r s i t y Diplom (Univ. Dipl.-) is now acknowl-edged as a Master

degree (M.Sc./M.A.) or Sarjana S2 (Strata-2) in Indonesia. The Doctor/PhD/S3 degrees that are awarded by German universities are still called Dr.-Ing. / Dr. rer. nat / Dr. rer. Pol. and so forth. With these changes, international recognition of German degrees will be a lot easier. It will no longer raise ques-tions how to deal with a degree from Germany. That is very impor-tant for Indonesian alumni. As an alumnus myself, I have experi-enced this dreadful situation where it was difficult to have my degree acknowledged. Therefore we as DAAD alumni are pleased with this development. With the new cooperation between DAAD and DIKTI through the IGSP (Indonesia German Scholarship Program) signed in December 2011, we hope that the awareness for the transferability of German degrees will be increased even more. I am pleased with the cooperation and communication with DAAD Jakarta and the German enter-prises and institutions in Indonesia. I hope this message was useful to all! Greetings from, Medan- Sumatra Utara

Author: Binaman Kasan - Founder & Chairman FKIJ - - Forum Communication German Indonesian - Contact email: binaman.kasan@ yahoo.com

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Information from Alumni Medan (FKIJ)

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