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As part of their pre-departure training at IALF Jakarta, students
on the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) program participated in a series
of debates on topics of domestic and international interest, including, Gambling
should be legalized, Indonesia needs a good dictator, The Indonesian Institute
for Public Administration should be closed down and Is George Bush good for
the U.S.? 
The three-member teams were awarded scores by two judges, also students, as well as given feedback by their teachers. The debates were videotaped, giving the speakers the opportunity to evaluate their presentation skills and improve their ability to present an argument in an academic context.
The ADS scheme is funded by the Australian government through AusAID. Together with the Australian Partnership Scheme (APS) approximately 600 postgraduate scholarships will be awarded to Indonesians in 2007. Both programs are managed by IDP Education through the Scholarship Office in Indonesia.
IALF Surabaya recently conducted a one-month intensive English
course for students preparing for a course in Mediation and Conflict Resolution
at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, to be conducted in English. The
preparation program in Indonesia was coordinated by the State Islamic Institute
(IAIN) Walisongo, Semarang. IAIN Walisongo has a Mediation Centre with an institutional
link to a similar centre at Arizona State University in the USA. The program
not only included participants
from IAIN Walisongo but also from IAIN Aceh, IAIN Mataram as well as from the
State Islamic Teacher Training College (STAIN) in Pontianak. Of the twenty four
participants on the pre-departure course, eighteen were selected to proceed
to the course in Holland. The English language training program was taught by
Philip Rees, Patrick Strei, Nigel Dixon, Noel Chivers and Kay Kleeman and focused
on academic listening, writing & presenting an academic paper and discussion
skills for seminars.
It is hoped that the success of the training in the Netherlands will contribute significantly to humanitarian causes, empowering those who work in the area of preventing conflict and, in particular, those who serve as mediators through the IWMC (IAIN Walisongo Mediation Centre).
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