On August 25, directors from 9 provincial Teacher Professional Development Centers of Indonesia, including those from Banten Province, Yogyakarta Special Province, South Sulawesi Province, West Sumatra Province, Riau Province, South Sumatra Province, East Kalimantan Province, Central Sulawesi Province, and Papua Province, visited the UNESCO Teacher Education Centre (TEC). Associate Professor Zhu Xiaohu held talks and exchanges with the visiting officials.
This visit was specially coordinated by Nunuk Suryani, Director of Indonesia’s Teacher Affairs Department, aiming to enable Indonesia’s provincial Teacher Professional Development Centers to fully understand TEC’s professional work in international cooperation in teacher education and strengthen cooperation and exchanges with the Centre.
Associate Professor Zhu Xiaohu first conveyed Director Zhang Minxuan’s welcome to the visitors, then introduced to the directors TEC’s development history, vision, and functions. He specifically reviewed teacher training programs for Southeast Asian countries launched since 2021, educational cooperation mechanisms, and potential future cooperation areas. Both sides conducted in-depth discussions on the characteristics of teacher development in China and Indonesia, as well as STEM teacher training, and made specific arrangements for the upcoming training program for educational trainers of Indonesia’s provincial education departments and the STEM teacher training program.
The Indonesian delegation thanked TEC for its warm reception, stating that they would report the visit to the Teacher Affairs Department upon their return and promptly implement the relevant research and cooperation projects that had been agreed upon.
