இந்தோனேஷியாவில் இஸ்லாமிய மதரஸாக்களை உருவாக்கி நடத்த ஆஸ்திரேலிய அரசாங்கம் 20 மில்லியன் டாலர் உதவி அளிக்கிறது.
Australia unveils Islamic schools for Indon
By Foreign affairs editor Peter Cave
Posted Thu Aug 2, 2007 7:00am AEST
Australia's ambassador to Indonesia and the secretary-general of the Indonesian Ministry for Religious Affairs have opened 46 new Islamic schools as part of a $29 million gift from Australia.
Work on another 255 of the schools, known as madrasahs, will start in a few weeks.
Part of the aim of the Australian program is to lessen the influence of radical Islamists who have used their own madrasahs as a training ground for terrorism.
Ambassador Bill Farmer, speaking at the ceremony in Java's Islamic stronghold of Lumajang, said the program would fund the construction of 2,000 schools in 20 Indonesian provinces by 2009.
Of those, 500 would be madrasahs.
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