In this way each student will have many opportunities to obtain an intimate glimpse of Indonesian life and to learn and practice colloquial Indonesian. Students also participate in field trips which introduce them to various aspects of the economic and cultural life of the community. By exposing students to the social, economic, and academic aspects of life in this multiethnic region, the program hopes to optimize their language learning experiences. Participation is open to applicants who have completed a minimum of two years of college and who have achieved as a minimum an intermediate level of proficiency - that is, a proficiency normally equivalent to the level achieved by the middle or end of the third year of study. Participants are selected on the basis of performance on a standardized test designed to test oral performance.
Selection also depends on the applicant's overall academic achievement and plans.
The application includes an explicit statement of purpose. Tuition and fee waivers, travel grants and per diem stipends are available, depending on receipt of financial support from the United States Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Groups Projects Abroad Program. Applications must be received on or before January 15, 1997. The Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian is a consortium of those universities which provide regular instruction in Indonesian. COTI has been conducting programs cooperatively with institutions in Indonesia since 1976 to provide intensive instruction in Indonesian at the advanced level.