Rotarians to help host foreign exchange students.

He emphasised the value of the scheme for students. Bermudians, he said, did "exceptionally well out of it''.

Four young Bermudians are presently living and studying abroad.

Meanwhile, Bermuda is playing host to two foreign students one of whom spoke to the club yesterday on his home country of Indonesia.

Rizal Miga, 17, has been in Bermuda since August studying English at the Bermuda College and living with host families.

Between colourful slides, he gave Rotarians a brief insight into his home country.

"Some people know where Bali is but they don't know where Indonesia is,'' he said. "Or they think Indonesia is part of Bali.'' In fact, he said, Bali was of many Indonesian provinces -- each one with its own culture and language.

"Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with five main islands, Java being the smallest,'' he said. "There are more than 70,000 islands divided into 27 provinces.'' The name, Indonesia, came from two Greek words "indos'' meaning Indian and "nesos'' meaning islands, he said.

A native of Jakarta, Rizal said the city is the gateway to Indonesia and 18 times the size of Bermuda.

And as the centre of government and business, Jakarta is a mixture of old and modern.

But the difference in size between the countries was not the only thing he had noticed, he said.

Indonesian school hours were longer and rules stricter than Bermuda's, he csaid. Boys were not allowed to grow their hair and students worked more than ten hours a day with just a short break at midday.

Rizal, who leaves for a tour of the United States in June, concluded his talk with a rendition of a Richard Clayderman tune on the piano that had Rotarians humming along.