Jakarta, March 18 -- Higher Education, Science, and Technology Minister Brian Yuliarto expressed his willingness to support collaboration between Indonesia and Bulgaria in the fields of higher education, science, and technology.

The minister made the statement during a meeting with Bulgarian Ambassador to Indonesia Tanya Dimitrova on Monday in Jakarta, where they discussed various potential cooperation avenues between Indonesia and Bulgaria.

"We hope to forge collaboration between universities. We welcome programs such as visits by professors from Bulgaria to Indonesia and the possibility of joint degree programs. We also hope to send Indonesian students to Bulgaria," he noted in a statement on Tuesday.

Yuliarto emphasized that his min...