Summer Advanced Indonesian Abroad Program 2024

For U.S. Students, Teachers, Educational Administrators, and Independent Scholars

Program Dates: June 19 – July 31, 2024

Location: Language Training Center (LTC), Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW) in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia
University website: http://ltc.uksw.edu/

This immersion program focuses on advanced-level Indonesian language acquisition. The program consists of a structured academic program of four hours of language instruction, four mornings per week, and two-three hours of arts and cultural activities one afternoon per week plus a weekly field trip.  One weekend will feature a cultural or scenic excursion in Central Java outside Salatiga.

Instruction is given in small-individualized groups taught by in-country language teachers who have extensive experience teaching Indonesian as a foreign language. Topics for instruction are theme-based and include education, language and culture, history, literature, arts and performance, economics, political and social issues, environment and globalization. One topic is discussed each week.

All applicants should have achieved by June 2024 at least an intermediate level of proficiency in Indonesian, equivalent to the proficiency expected at the end of a fourth-semester or sixth-quarter course.  Graduate students, undergraduates of junior or senior standing, faculty members, teachers in elementary and secondary schools, and educational administrators are eligible to apply. It is permitted for students to have graduated immediately prior to the beginning of the summer program.

Note: Although Advanced Indonesian Abroad is widely recognized as a formal academic program, participants do not receive academic credit for their participation.  The program can provide a transcript for students who wish to request academic credit from their home campuses.

Fulbright-Hays Fellowships

For U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents, fellowship funding is available for this program from the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad, which covers full tuition, homestays, books and other classroom materials, plus round-trip international airfare from the U.S. to Indonesia, and related ground transportation.  Please indicate on your application if you would like to be considered for this funding.

Important:  The United States Department of Education stipulates that no person may be a funded fellow in any Fulbright-Hays group study program (or seminar abroad program) more than once in any given three-year period.  No one may ever be funded for more than two such programs.

Other Funding Options

Applicants who have their own funding for transportation, tuition, and homestays may also be admitted.  Qualified students can use Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships from their home institutions, Boren fellowships, or university or private funding to cover these items.  All of these funding options should be applied for separately from this application.  The amount that should be budgeted for tuition and homestays is $4,100.

All participants will be expected to provide the following:

 • a $500 program fee upon notification of acceptance

 • a $40 non-refundable application fee
 • Indonesian dictionary
 • appropriate pre-travel inoculations
 • U.S. passport
 • Indonesian visa

Deadline: Open and extended.

Required Application items:

• Statement of Purpose

(In 1000 words or less, explain your reasoning for joining this language program and include your professional goals.

• Academic transcript
• C.V. or resume
• Two recommendation letters; (One of which should speak to your language ability.)

Please address all questions to Rahmi Aoyama, Ph.D, Email: rhartati1@niu.edu 

Organized by NIU (Northern Illinois University)

Co-sponsors: NIU, AIFIS, COTI

Tips for Letters of Recommendation

• Ask for letters as early as possible. The applicant is responsible for notifying referees of their request for letters and for ensuring those letters are submitted by the deadline. 

• All references must be in English. 

• Degree candidates must submit one letter from their academic advisor.

• Do not submit more references than the two required. 

• Letters of recommendation should be submitted directly by your referees through the SMApply application portal. Once you have submitted their information in your application, they will receive an email addressed from the “CAORC & ORG Grant Application Portal” with instructions on how to access the website and submit their letters of recommendation. Please have recommenders contact us for any troubleshooting on the site.

TROUBLESHOOTING THE ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL

If you are having trouble accessing the online application through the Survey Monkey Apply website, please try to following:

1. Reset your password to the website. If you have used SMApply for other grant applications in the past, you may need to reset your password in order to login again. 

2. If you have served as a reviewer or administrator for any other programs run on the SMApply website, you will need to ensure that you are signed on in the role of “applicant.” You can do this by clicking on your name in the top right header to select the appropriate role in the dropdown menu. 

3. Please check that messages received from SMApply are not automatically directed to your SPAM folder. 

4. Please do not forget to mark each step of your application as "complete" and to press submit one you have finished filling out the application form.