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7,000 RI students win scholarship to U.S. JAKARTA (Antara): As many as 7,000 Indonesian vocational school students who successfully passed English test will go to Unites States to learn more about cooperatives, an official said. "We have given international-standard vocational school students across the country a chance of taking part in English test and found that 7,000 of them passed the test," National Education Ministry's director for vocational education Joko Sutrisno said Wednesday. The scholarship was mainly allocated to vocational school students who studied information and technology as well as hotel service and came from provinces that were frequently visited by investors and foreign tourists like Jakarta, Denpasar, Medan, Makassar, Yogyakarta and Surabaya among other cities. "We promoted potentials of the 7,000 students to some concerned instances. The Cooperatives and Small Medium Enterprises Ministry has responded to the offer by providing them with the scholarship to the U.S.," Joko said.(* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
