This paper discusses the Overseas Fellowship Program (OFP), a national science and technology overseas training project that the New Order government of Indonesia (1966-1998) planned, implemented, and managed between 1985 and 1992. It dis-cusses the program’s rationale, objectives, implementation, assessments, and out-comes. Drawing on several sources, this paper illustrates that Indonesia’s overseas education and training project was part of the country’s industrialization program to generate highly trained scientific and technical personnel for the country’s six re-search organizations and several national laboratories. Through the OFP the Indone-sian government learned how to manage its own scholarship program, a valuable experience in management training. One result that fell short of its intended goal was to convert the six research institutions into “top-heavy” organizations from “bottom-heavy” ones. The reintegration of OFP fellows also faced some challenges because this aspect of the program was initially underdeveloped. But this program produced hundreds of highly-educated and skilled Indonesian graduates who have been carv-ing their own careers in government agencies, private companies, and in academia both in Indonesia and abroad. Many of them now belong to a newly created associ-ation called IABIE and they have been involved in various activities meant to in-crease the knowledge and skills of Indonesia’s younger generation out of sense of indebtedness for what the country had done for their own education.