Two Worlds for our Kids

Student Yudistira Virgus, a member of the Indonesian Physics Olympiad team, recently won a gold medal. Are we doing enough to support such prodigies?

August 3, 2004

IN time, the world will come to know that Indonesian youngsters come from two worlds. One world consists of television programs such as AFI (Akademi Fantasi Indosiar) and Indonesian Idol, which is all about young people learning to enter the world of music and entertainment.

The other world has groups like TOFI (the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team), whose members include, among others, Yudistira Virgus. Yudistira won a gold medal at the XXXV Phys

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