Following on the discussions which occurred during the visit to
Indonesia by the Australian Goodwill Mission [1], the Australian
Government desires to offer to the Republic of Indonesia, as the
first stage of a programme of educational assistance, and in
accordance with the spirit of resolutions regarding reconstruction
adopted by UNESCO, two Senior Fellowships and one Junior
Fellowship to be available for study within Australia. These
Fellowships will be open to both men and women.

The purpose of the Senior Fellowships is to provide higher
training facilities and general experience within Australia to two
senior persons who may or may not be University graduates and who
are already employed in responsible work, preferably connected
with the development of Indonesia. It is hoped that the provision
of facilities for such persons to enable them to study Australian
developments within their own fields will constitute a direct
contribution to the development of your country. These facilities
need not necessarily be of the types available from academic
institutions. The Australian Government is prepared to make
special arrangements with one or more of its own Departments, or
with State Departments, or with private firms, to ensure that the
selected Fellows are afforded the educational experience that they
require.

The selected students will be given appropriate training and
experience for a period of from six to twelve months. During their
stay in Australia, they will be paid living allowances valued
(after taxation deductions necessary under Australian Law have
been made) at about 11 (Australian) per week, and certain
additional funds will be available to meet the costs of necessary
travel within Australia, tuition, books and instruments. Costs of
travel to and from Australia will be paid by the Australian
Government which also will arrange for suitable reception and
accommodation.

The purpose of the Junior Fellowship is to provide opportunities
of post-graduate study at an Australian educational institution
for a student who has recently completed a course of academic,
professional, rural or technical training, but whose eventual
contribution to the development of Indonesia may be increased by a
further period of training. It is not desired to specify the
fields of study. The selected student will be provided with a
living allowance valued at about 7 (Australian) per week (after
taxation deductions) and additional funds will be available to
meet the costs of essential tuition, books, instruments and travel
within Australia. Duration of the period of training under
Fellowship will be from six months to two years. Costs of travel
to and from Australia will be paid by the Australian Government
which will also arrange for suitable reception and accommodation,
as in the case of the Senior Fellows.

If you accept this offer, the Australian Government would be glad
if you could arrange for the preliminary selection of six or seven
of the best applicants for the Senior Fellowships and of three or
four of the best applicants for the Junior Fellowship, arranging
each group in an order of precedence based both on the
qualifications of the applicants and the relevance of the proposed
study to the development of Indonesia. The reason for suggesting
that you should select more than two Senior Fellows and one Junior
Fellow is our desire to implement this scheme as soon as possible.

If nominations of six or seven applicants for Senior Fellowships
and of three or four applicants for Junior Fellowships can be
made, every endeavour will be made to place the first two
applicants nominated by you for the Senior Fellowships and the
applicant first nominated for the Junior Fellowship for them to
commence work in Australia as soon as practicable; but if this
proves impossible in the time now available, selection might then
be made of the next applicants, in the order of nomination, whom
it is possible to place.

A full and exact statement of the forms of educational experience
required, and also of the duties performed by the nominees in
their present positions and those which would be performed on
return to their country, would enable our educational authorities
to make precise arrangements in advance of the students' arrival.

We would also like to know something of the educational history,
family background and general interests of Fellows, and to receive
any other information that will help us to make arrangements for
their reception and entertainment.

The services of this Office will be available to assist your
selection authority with advice as to the degree of fluency in
English that will be essential for study in Australia.

Certain requirements as to health will need to be observed by
Fellows. If they come by air they will require a vaccination
certificate issued within the last three years and signed or
countersigned by your Health Department. An X-ray of the chest
(accompanied by the radiological films, when available) should be
forwarded with the nominations of prospective Fellows. Those
finally selected would of course be subject to the general health
examination made of all entrants into Australia.

I understand that you have three candidates in mind for
preliminary selection and that on your return to Djocjakarta you
will arrange for the selection of further candidates, along the
lines my Government has requested. In this connection, I feel that
I should advise you that Fellows who intend to follow a course of
study at some academic or technical institution could not now
arrive until the academic year was more than half over, and
therefore, would probably do better to wait until the beginning of
1950, while other Fellows, whose work is not going to be subject
to the exigencies of the academic year, might proceed to Australia
without delay as soon as we have finalised initial arrangements.

I have already had, Sir, the honour of discussing this matter with
you and you will be aware that the foregoing is largely the
substance of a letter which it had been hoped could have been
delivered to you well before the end of 1948. I deeply regret that
the unhappy events of the intervening months should have prevented
this and should have delayed the selection of the Republican
Fellows and their travel to Australia. However, you will be aware
also, that certain difficulties, concerning the allocation of the
Fellowships between the Republic and the non-Republican areas and
the travel regulations governing the Republican Fellows, still
have to be settled with the Netherlands authorities before the
arrangements set out in this letter may be implemented.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, Sir, the
assurance of my high consideration.