Application

Application deadlines 

• Deadline is extended!!!
  Applications with supporting documents should be received by March 15, 2008
• Applications past the above deadlines may be accepted, if fellowship support is still available. Contact the COTIM president before submitting your application

Application Forms

• Both of the following Application Forms (Application 1 and Application 2) are required for completion of the application.
• Click below for each of these documents in the format desired:

• If you have problems acquiring documents, etc., or interested in special program,
  please contact Dr. Soemarmo at soemarmo@ohio.edu

Application Procedure 

• To apply, please complete both application forms.
• Please note that items 20,21 and 22 are personal statements of particular importance and require responses of at least several paragraphs.
• Send the completed forms by e-mail attachements to soemarmo@ohio.edu

  You can also mail it to the address below:
  Dr. Marmo Soemarmo, COTIM
  375 Gordy Hall
  Ohio University
  Athens, Ohio 45701

To complete the application process: 

1. Make three copies of the confidential evaluation forms and distribute these forms to three references who should submit their evaluations independently. At least one of your references should have taught you Indonesian or Malay (if you have studied either formally within the past three years) and at least two of your references should be able to speak to your preparation in your field of specialization. 
2. After filling out the application form, submit: 
   1. the application form (signed and dated) in addition to one single-sided photocopy of the application. 
   2. one official copy (in addition to one single-sided unofficial photocopy on 8.5 x 11 paper) of each page of your academic transcripts for university level work for at least the last five years. (In lieu of transcripts, teachers and administrators who have not studied in a university during the past five years should submit a curriculum vitae.) 
   3. a check or money order in the amount of $25 made payable to: COTIM - Ohio University. 

Fees, tuition, and fellowships 

Tuition and program fees are $2,200. Program participants are responsible for their own transportation, health insurance (required) and appropriate pre-travel innoculations, visa application expenses (approximately $75), books and living expenses. Citizens or nationals of the United States, as well as permanent residents of the United States, may apply for fellowships providing a per diem allowance under the Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad Program. The United States Department of Education stipulates, however, that no one person may be a funded fellow in any Fulbright-Hays group study program (or seminar abroad program) more than once in any given three-year period, nor ever be funded for more than two such programs. Applicants not eligible for Fulbright-Hays fellowships may contact the COTIM president to inquire about other possible funding sources. To apply for funding under the Fulbright-Hays program, applicants need only to so indicate on item 14 of the application form. There are no special forms to fill out. Although the precise amount of the fellowships cannot be determined at this time, it is anticipated that COTIM will be able to offer a limited number of fellowships adequate to offset a large proportion -- but not all -- of the costs of this program. Applicants are encouraged, however, to seek funding from other sources to either fully support or supplement the cost of study in the COTIM-UNSRAT program. A select number of US universities offer summer FLAS (Foreign Language Area Study) fellowships funded by the US Department of Education. Although by a nation-wide agreement those FLAS fellowships offered through centers for Southeast Asian studies can only be used in the SEASSI (Southeast Asian Area Studies Summer Institute) program, FLAS fellowships offered by international studies centers usually do not have that restriction. Check with the international studies program at your institution to see whether such unrestricted FLAS fellowships are available. 

All inquiries should be addressed to:

Dr. Marmo Soemarmo, COTIM President
255 Estates Drive, Athens, Ohio 45701
Tel.: (740) 592-2513 or (740) 590-1401
Email: soemarmo@ohio.edu

updated February 2008.