LPDP Scholarship Sentil, Cak Imin: The Rich Dapet, The Poor Continue To Lose

Vice President Muhaimin Iskandar (DOC VOI/AMIN National Team)

JAKARTA - Candidate for vice president number 1, Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) poked a scholarship program from the Education Fund Management Institution (LPDP). So far, Cak Imin has seen discrimination from the distribution of LPDP scholarships. According to him, most LPDP scholarship recipients come from the wealthy. Meanwhile, underprivileged youth find it difficult to get scholarship financing from the national education development fund. "This is strange, LPDP. There are competitions, there are rich ones. The rich ones have better quality. These colleagues are already poor, don't have access, so they continue to lose at the LPDP," said Cak Imin at the declaration of the Young Archipelago Kawula Volunteers in Pancoran, South Jakarta, Sunday, January 28. On that basis, Cak Imin promised that he and presidential candidate Anies Baswedan would make LPDP scholarship receipts equivalent to providing quotas for recipients from underprivileged circles. "We give pre-LPDP. There must be a pre-LPDP. For what reason, if the market is allowed to open, the one who will win is also the one who eats it three times a day. It's like colleagues who eat it 2 times a day what's the fate? It's been promised lunch from sono, again. Very poor you, just free lunch," explained Cak Imin jokingly.

On the other hand, Cak Imin also revealed one of the assistance programs for young people that will be run if they win the presidential election. The government, he said, would allocate 5 percent of the APBN for business credit distribution for young groups. "God willing. Of the 5 percent APBN, it is only around Rp150 trillion. What are 150 trillion for? Those who want to make businesses, young people, are given the widest possible space for easy and most possible capital to grow," he explained.