Undergraduate students from The University of Western Australia planning to study in Indonesia through the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) in 2022 and 2023 will be among those to benefit from new Australian Government funding of $1.97 million.

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) recently published the list of projects successfully funded under the 2022 round of the Department’s New Colombo Plan Mobility Program (NCPMP).

In total, $22 million is to be provided to 33 Australian universities – to support more than 6,000 Australian undergraduates to study in the Indo-Pacific between January 2022 and September 2023, with around $4.8 million earmarked to support learning in Indonesia.

The funding for ACICIS will provide 460 mobility grants to support students from the consortium’s 16 Australian member universities to undertake short format or semester-long study in Indonesia in a wide range of fields including law, agriculture, journalism, public health, international relations and creative arts.

ACICIS Consortium Director Liam Prince said new funding to support Australian students to study in Indonesia on ACICIS programs was a positive development. 

Mr Prince said ACICIS was reasonably confident of being able overcome the remaining barriers to student travel to Indonesia by the middle of the year. 

“Our staff in both Australia and Indonesia are busily preparing for the resumption of in-person program delivery in Indonesia from second semester of this year,” he said.  

The New Colombo Plan Mobility Program has already supported more than 1,600 Australian undergraduate students to undertake ACICIS programs in Indonesia since the scheme’s launch in 2014. 

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