Teachers undertake six-week language course

 A GROUP of teachers in the National Capital District are undertaking a six-week training course on the Indonesian language.

The teachers are from the Lion Morata Vocational Training Centre. 

A group of teachers from the school travelled to Jayapura, in Papua, Indonesia, last September to study vocational schools there. 

Indonesian Ambassador Andrias Setipu and officials were at the centre yesterday to witness the beginning of the course.

Centre manager, Hillary Damke said he took the teachers on the trip to Jayapura so that they could learn from schools and teachers there. 

Damke said when they came back, he noticed a change in their attitude towards teaching. 

It inspired the school to have more exchange programmes with Indonesia.

He said the course would help teachers communicate with Indonesians when they visit there. 

Board chairman John Yoko commended the work of manager Damke saying he was committed to serving the school and Morata community.

He thanked the Government for the signing of a memorandum of understanding on education and training between PNG and Indonesia. 

Setipu said the language was used by about 250 million people in Indonesia. 

He said Indonesia would support PNG in providing quality education. 

“The government only makes policy but we, the people on the ground, make the policy work. Because together we can do anything,” he said.