The RISH signs a MOU with the Faculty of Forestry, Tanjungpura University, Indonesia

April 16, 2010

The signing ceremony of a MOU was held between Professor H. Abdurrani Muin, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, Tanjungpura University, Indonesia and Professor Toshitaka Tsuda, Director of the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University. Since Professor Tsuda was not able to join the ceremony due to an official event, Professor Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, corresponding person from RISH side, brought a MOU with Professor Tsuda's signature. Professor H. Chairil Effendy, Rector of Tanjungpura Universsity and Professor Yoshimura signed as witnesses after the signing by Professor H. Abdurrani Muin.

At the signing ceremony, a short seminar was conducted by Professor Yoshimura to overview the current study topics held in the RISH with a brief introduction of Kyoto University.

Tanjungpura University is an Indonesian national university with nine faculties and over 17,000 students, and plays a major role as the highest educational organization in West Kalimantan Province. The corresponding institution which RISH signed MOU with is the Faculty of Forestry.

The research collaboration between the RISH and the Faculty of Forestry, Tanjungpura University has started in 1996 under the JSPS-LIPI Core University Program in the field of wood science during 1996 - 2005. After the program, the two institutions have conducted continuous collaboration and has finally reached the fruitful result, the present MOU. It should be noted that Dr. Yuliati Indrayani, the First Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, who took Doctoral Degree in the RISH, has made a great effort to finalize the MOU.

With the signing of this MOU, a new comprehensive and efficient partnership will be built between the two institutes. Thus, the RISH hopes to actively promote academic exchange and enhance educational services through joint research, joint hosting of symposia, and an exchange of faculty members.

(from left) Professor Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, Rector H. Chairil Effendy, Dean H. Abdurrani Muin	Professor Yoshimura lecturing the students of Tanjungpura University
Concerned staff from both universities studying the future collaboration