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Indonesian students win global enterprise challenge
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-26 17:15

JAKARTA: A group of Indonesians high school students have won the top prize in Global Enterprise Challenge (GEF) 2009, defeating last year's winner from New Zealand, Antara news agency said here Friday.

Teams from the United States, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Africa and Singapore also participated in the competition.

Indonesia is the first Asian country to win the GEC since its it was first held in Scotland in 2002.

GEC was hosted by Careers Scotland for the first five years, by the Welsh Assembly Government in 2007 and by Australian Business Week in 2008.

In 2009 it was hosted once again in the origin place, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.