Canadian BeaverTails are available in Plaza Senayan in Jakarta, among 130 other locations in seven countries, including Malaysia, Costa Rica and the Philippines. The Hooker family brought the treat to Ottawa in 1978, reinventing a Canadian pastry that traces back to the voyageurs, who cooked the tasty treats over an open fire.

The Canadian Forest Service is helping develop better methods for forecasting wildfire risk by assessing ignition potential and firefighting conditions. By adapting the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System to the local vegetation and climate, agencies here are now able to produce their own fire-danger ratings.

A Quebec comedy portraying the hilarious differences between men and women in sex, careers, family secrets, even driving - all in one-minute segments - is now running on Indonesian TV. Un gars, une fille (Love Bugs in English), went to France in 1999 and is currently making people laugh in 19 other countries.

The Maple Leaf School and English Language Centre, a private facility in Surabaya, Indonesia is a private school that follows Ontario's elementary school curriculum. Under director Jacqueline Tjandrawidjaja, who graduated from two Canadian universities, 90 students are taught math, science, English, Indonesian, social studies, phys. ed., art and computers.

Friendship Without Borders, published the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta, celebrates Canadians and Indonesians living in one another's countries. About 5,000 copies of have been distributed to media outlets, government officials and university libraries.

The Canadian Forest Service is helping Malaysia and Indonesia develop better methods for forecasting wildfire risk by assessing ease of ignition and difficult firefighting conditions. By adapting Canada's forest-fire danger-rating system to the local vegetation and climate, agencies in Indonesia and Malaysia now able to produce their own fire danger ratings.