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Recently, we made a fruitful visit to the Jogjakarta School of Environmental Engineering also known as Sekolah Tinggi Listrik Lingkungan or STTL at the end of the semester, to visit our English teachers and see the progress at the student center.

The plain looking student center has been livened up with posters and pictures, and cosy English corners were created to encourage students to come in to practise their English with our teachers.

The response wasn’t good in the beginning, with just a handful of students coming in but things have changed! The teachers hold their English corners for an hour and a half from Mondays to Fridays, from 4 pm to 530pm, but students sometimes stayed on late till 7pm because they enjoyed their interaction with our friendly teachers so much! It was hard for our teachers to tell them to leave!

Different English corners are created to cater to the different interests of the students. Subjects as varied as Music, Culture, Recycling and even Public Speaking are available. Here are two of our American teachers facilitating the discussions on a busy Tuesday afternoon.

Two months ago, Goducate sent a team of 11 English teachers from 5 countries to teach English at the Jogjakarta School of Environmental Engineering (called Sekolah Tinggi Teknik Lingkungan or STTL in Bahasa Indonesia).

Jogjakarta is the campus capital of Indonesia – with over 100 tertiary institutions of higher learning, attracting students from all over Indonesia.

Most of the students of STTL come from the poorer provinces of eastern Indonesia – and the objective of this school is that most of their graduates will return to their provinces to help improve the infrastructure of their home-places (particularly, to help electrify their home-places).

Heading the team at STTL is Prof. L E Redick, who is the Director of our English center, which is called the International Center of English Excellence (ICEE). The rest of team consists of our Head Teacher from India, 2 Filipinas, 2 Singaporeans, 3 Americans, 1 Malaysian and 1 Indonesian. Their task is to make STTL a center for English excellence.

The team has settled nicely into the comfortable on-campus accommodation provided by STTL. They are busy teaching both the faculty and students to upgrade their English and in the process have made many new Indonesian friends and built wonderful bridges into the lives of their students – many of whom will be the future leaders of Indonesia.

News of their good work is spreading and other universities in different parts of Indonesia have already approached us to start similar programs in their universities.

Indonesia is an emerging country with a great future.

Indonesia welcomes us to help them!