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Celebrating Indonesia: fifty years with the ford foundation 1953-2003

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The Indonesian government welcomed the Foundation’s offer of involvement, and President Sukarno endorsed the proposals for training civil servants and improving the teaching of English. In an unpublished memoir, one of the early Representatives in Jakarta, John Bresnan, suggested that “a private American philanthropy like the Ford Foundation was of some interest [to Sukarno] as an alternative to the US government,” which had only reluctantly come to support the cause of Indonesian independence during the struggle against the Dutch from 1945-49. A one-room office in Jakarta’s Hotel des Indes opened in June 1953, but activities at first progressed with frustrating slowness. It was only when a former labor organizer named Michael Harris took over the Jakarta office in 1955 that the Foundation began to make a mark. Over the 50 years of its work in Indonesia, the Foundation has committed, in today’s dollars, some US$ 420 million in Indonesia in a variety of fields, out of more than $12 billion given in grants and loans in the US and internationally. The Foundation remains an independent, nonprofit organization, accepting no contributions from governments or any other donors; its trustees set policy and delegate grantmaking and operational authority to the president and senior staff working in its New York and 12 overseas offices. Programs in Indonesia are linked to those in other countries around the world, promoting the cross-fertilization of ideas and strategies as well as international collaboration among grantees and staff

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KP XVI MOH c

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KP XVI MOH c

Publisher

Jakarta : Ford Foundation., 2003

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238p. : ill. ; 32cm.

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English

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9799796415

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INA 0 300

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Sejarah
Indonesia

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