Introduction

Abstract

"In the spring of 1995 a call for research proposals was published by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), soliciting projects submitted jointly by Indonesian and Dutch research groups. A collaborative research proposal was then formulated by a small group of linguistic phoneticians at the University of Indonesia and at Leiden University, asking for a subsidy of around Mƒ 1.5 (now approximately k€ 680). The grant money covered five PhD projects, each of which was to result in a doctoral thesis, the appointment of two half-time postdoc for four years, and the transfer of equipment (computers, recorders, microphones) and speech processing software to a phonetics laboratory to be founded by the University of Indonesia"