Good News, As Many As 2,175 People Get Indonesian Education Scholarships From The Ministry Of Education And Culture

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JAKARTA - A total of 2,175 people received the Indonesian Education Scholarship (BPI) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) in the odd semester of the 2021/2022 academic year. (Puslapdik) to improve and develop Indonesia's human resources as well as increase the usefulness of national education development funds. A written statement from the Ministry of Education and Culture received in Jakarta Monday stated that BPI is a scholarship program with degrees for undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral levels, as well as a "double degree" program. Scholarship recipients consist of prospective teachers, teachers, prospective lecturers, lecturers, cultural actors, students, and outstanding students. They will attend education at 59 universities in the country and 112 universities abroad spread over 20 countries. Scholarship recipients then attended the briefing on the Indonesian Education Scholarship Program so that they could improve their competence to support the main program of the Ministry of Education and Technology, namely Merdeka Learning. The debriefing took place virtually and the opening was also attended by the Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Anwar Makarim on Friday, 1 October.

Mendikbudristek Nadiem Anwar Makarim advised scholarship recipients to really take advantage of this opportunity to take an adventure in studying. The Ministry of Education and Culture also plans to increase the quota of scholarships for teachers, lecturers, and cultural actors. culture, so don't waste it. Build a new 'network', get out of your comfort zone, try new things, don't be afraid to take risks, and be innovative in learning," said the Minister of Education and Culture during the briefing of the Indonesian Education Scholarship Program, Friday, October 1. hopes that the Indonesian Education Scholarships can be a motivation for the recipients to become leaders in their respective sectors and support the Free Learning movement which was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Learning. Freedom Learning is a movement. All who receive be These students will become agents of change. So optimize and contribute to the community when you return later," he said. To the teacher educators who received the BPI, the Minister of Education and Technology said they would become leaders in their respective sectors, either formally through Activating Teachers, becoming school principals, becoming teacher supervisors, or become part of the Ministry of Education and Culture.In opening the briefing for BPI recipients, the Minister of Education and Technology also took the time to discuss with several scholarship recipients, one of whom was Sry Mulia Kurniati, a vocational teacher who received a Domestic Teacher Scholarship. Sri Mulia, who teaches at a state vocational school in Palembang majoring in tourism, answered that at this time he saw that there was no synchronization between the existing curriculum and the needs of students in the industrial world. "My goal is to form a teaching material or learning syllabus that is synchronous with student majors a," he said. Responding to Sry Mulia, the Minister of Education and Technology hopes that Sry Mulia can redesign the tourism vocational vocational curriculum when he returns to teaching. "Hopefully by that time there will be independence from all our Merdeka Learning programs to be able to move. The key to this graduation is to be a mover, so one example is the Motivator Teacher. I hope that Motivating Teachers can enter leadership positions in the education sector," he said.

Primus Bere Boe, a recipient of a Domestic Cultural Actors scholarship who is pursuing a master's degree at the Jogjakarta Art Institute (ISI) is also happy because he has the opportunity to study for a master's degree. According to him, the presence of cultural actors is very important, especially in border areas where it is needed to advance culture. "My home area is in the border area between Indonesia and Timor Leste where cultural improvement is very much needed, so that it can create a sense of nationalism," said Primus. education is very important. Vita, who is a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Indonesia, said that in the Tridarma of Higher Education, research and international collaboration are very important to maintain the quality of universities. Responding to this, the Minister of Education and Technology said that the most important strategy is provide funds or a budget. Currently the government has prepared a budget so that Indonesian lecturers can continue their education abroad so that opportunities to increase international collaboration are also increasingly open. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Suharti in a briefing report said, in the odd semester of the 2021 academic year/ 2022, the Ministry of Education and Culture through the Education Financing Service Center provides scholarships to 2,175 recipients. "They consist of 1,948 scholarship recipients in the country, 217 recipients abroad, and 10 recipients of 'double degree'," he said. -4 awarded to 373 recipients of prospective teachers and teachers of productive subjects at SMK, cultural actors, and outstanding students or students. Master's degree scholarships were awarded to 335 recipients, with details of 269 in the country, 63 abroad, and 3 &double degree'. The recipients of this master's degree scholarship are prospective academic and vocational college lecturers, prospective teachers and education staff, cultural actors, and outstanding students. Then the doctoral degree scholarships are awarded to 1,467 recipients from academic and vocational college lecturers, teachers and education personnel as well as cultural actors.