At the end of the year 2021, I am proud to say that SEAMEO BIOTROP has performed very well in achieving its goals, despite the still ongoing pandemic. The Center’s 59th Governing Board Meeting was carried out virtually. The highlighted issues were the 11th Five-Year Development Plan (11th FYDP), the proposed change of organizational structure as well as research and training plans for the …
Coming to this third quarter, improving the capacity of Vocational High School (SMK) human resources still became our primary concern. The Centre conducted several training courses, particularly in the field of agricultural development, including a family farming training activity for eight Cambodian vocational school teachers in June. Between July-September 2019, the Centre conducted a series …
For the last issue of this year, we summarized the implementation of our 2019 SMARTS-BE programme. We continued to encourage vocational high schools to develop entrepreneurship skill and to conserve vegetable and fruit species at once. We also conducted a Focus Group Discussion participated by school teachers to develop human resources toward industry 4.0. We are pleased that six schools joinin…
The year of 2019 has passed, and now we are at the beginning of 2020. This year, the Centre will continue to implement the highlighted programmes as stated in SEAMEO BIOTROP's Five Year Development Programmes for 2017 - 2022. In the first quarter of 2020, the Centre was honored to welcome Prof Bambang P. S. Brodjonegoro, PhD, the Minister of Research and Technology/National Research and Inno…
Dear valued Readers, The Pandemic of COVID-19 has affected most of programmes implementation in every institution, BIOTROP is not an exception. Following the letters of Secretary General, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia and SEAMEO Secretariat, SEAMEO BIOTROP Director issued letter no. 783/S.Edaran/III/2020 dated 16 March 2020 on regulation to prevent COVID-19 s…
Dear Valued Readers, For the third quarter of 2020, our Centre kept on continuing its activities to provide scientific knowledge, products and services to beneficiaries, not only for Indonesian people, but also for the Southeast Asian community. Still, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our Centre prioritized to conduct online activities instead of face-to-face activities. Other than contribut…
It gives me great joy,to share with you about the notable accomplishments that our Centre had this last quarter of 2020. This is my last message on BIOTROP Courier, since my term as SEAMEO BIOTROP Director is ending on 31 December 2020. The year of 2020 is a very challenging year with the occurrence of Covid- 1 9 pandemic in Indonesia and all over the world. Nonetheless, we keep our spirit high…