“The United States will spend $165-million over the next five years on programs to help strengthen higher education in Indonesia through educational exchanges and university partnerships,” the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. President Obama and Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, announced this initiative yesterday at a meeting at the G-20 summit in Toronto.

The Chronicle further notes that “the U.S. Department of State already has made educational exchanges with Indonesia through the Fulbright Program a priority. As part of the effort announced Sunday, the two countries will expand such educational exchanges through Fulbright, the Community College Initiative Program, and English-language training, among other activities.”

The U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron Hume, hopes “the number of Indonesians studying in the United States will double within five years,” according to the Chronicle.