Prabowo Invites Indian PM To Increase Health And Education Cooperation

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto held a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit which took place at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, November 18 afternoon local time.

On that occasion Prabowo expressed his desire to increase cooperation with India in the fields of health and health education.

"In the field of education, as you know, we hope to increase the number of Indonesian students attending your institute in India. Also, to invite Indian professors, Indian teachers to teach in our country," Prabowo said.

Prabowo said that currently many Indian corporations have invested in Indonesia, and he is happy that the investments include health and pharmaceuticals.

"We are opening our health sector. We are opening hospitals from abroad to operate in Indonesia," Prabowo said.

Prabowo conveyed that the main reason he wanted to expand cooperation in the health and health education sector was because Indonesia was still experiencing a shortage of medical personnel.

"Because we have a vacancy, we lack 160,000 medical workers, shortages and we can only pass 8,000 people every year. So, I plan to open more medical colleges," Prabowo said.

"And here we may need to send some specialists from India to teach at our college," he continued.