TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - L’oreal Indonesia has given awards to four Indonesian female researchers at the annual L’oreal-UNESCO For Women In Science National Fellowship Awards 2017. The event was held at the Research, Technology and High Education Ministry building in Jakarta on November 9.
The female researchers have been given the awards for their contribution to medical science in Indonesia. “It is high time for us to hold science in high regard; it is high time to hold women in high regard; it is high time to hold scientists in high regard…,” said Prof. Dr. Arief Rachman, the executive director of the Indonesian National Commission for UNESCO (KNIU).
There were three award categories: Life Sciences, Material Sciences, and Engineering Sciences. The Life Science awards were given to Retno Wahyu Nurhayati Ph.D. of the Medicine Faculty at the University of Indonesia and Yulia Yusrini Djabir Ssi, Msi, MBmSc, Ph.D., Apt of the Pharmacy Faculty at Hasanuddin University.
The Material Sciences award was given to Dr. Siti Nurul Aisyiyah Jenie of the Indonesian Institute of Science’s (LIPI) Research Center for Chemistry. The Engineering Sciences award was given to Dr. Yuliati Herbani, a researcher at LIPI’s Research Center for Physics. The researchers are entitled to Rp80 million in prize money to fund their researches.
They have conducted researches for early detection of terminal disease, reducing medical treatment costs, developing safe medical procedures that will bring major changes to Indonesia’s medical world.
Data from LIPI as of October 2017 shows that Indonesia has 9,634 researchers, most of whom are men. L’oreal and UNESCO have been giving awards to female researchers since 2004 in a bid to boost the number of Indonesian female researchers.
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