JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung chose to partner with the Education Fund Management Agency (LPDP) to distribute scholarships for students abroad. This step was taken because it was assessed that the establishment of its own distribution agency would take a long time.
Pramono ensured that the funding for the program would still come from the DKI Jakarta Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD).
"So, the funds that exist are certainly funds managed by the DKI Jakarta Government. However, because it takes a long time to take care of the LPDP, we work together with the Central LPDP," said Pramono at the East Jakarta Mayor's office, Tuesday, May 5.
Later, this scheme will make the DKI Provincial Government not completely hand over the process to the LPDP. The local government still holds control in determining the scholarship recipients to the destination campus.
"To determine students, universities, majors, and so on, later the DKI Jakarta Government will determine," said Pramono.
With this pattern of collaboration, the DKI Provincial Government hopes that the overseas scholarship program can immediately run without having to wait for the administrative process of forming a new institution.
Pramono assessed that this cooperation was a middle ground so that the program could still be executed in the near future, while maintaining the quality of the selection of recipients.
He added that this program is expected to open wider access for Jakarta students to continue their education abroad through a more structured scheme.
"In my opinion, this is very good to provide an opportunity for children or students in Jakarta to be able to study abroad using the Jakarta LPDP," he explained.
Previously, the Governor of DKI Jakarta Pramono Anung targeted a similar overseas scholarship program of the DKI Provincial Government version of the Education Fund Management Agency (LPDP) to start running in 2027.
He even set an initial target of at least 100 recipients to be sent out in the first year. He emphasized that the scheme prepared was a special LPDP for Jakarta whose management was under the local government. Currently, the program has not started, but technical discussions have begun.
"I hope that hopefully next year we can start for the Jakarta LPDP," said Pramono at the DKI Jakarta Education Office, South Jakarta, Thursday, February 25.
He revealed that the plan to launch the program had been delayed due to the reduction of the Jakarta Revenue Sharing Fund (DBH) of Rp. 15 trillion. This fiscal condition makes the Provincial Government have to rearrange the funding scheme.
"Because there is a cut, then we are looking for ways to make Jakarta have a LPDP that is determined, regulated by Jakarta itself. And thank God there is a way out. I just can't say how much the quota is," he said.
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