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On a thoroughfare near Jakarta's Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle, athletes and officials ride a roofless double-decker bus in a procession from the Youth and Sports Ministry to the State Palace on Aug. 15, 2024. The march was organized to welcome home the Indonesian athletes who competed in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, including winners Rizki Juniansyah (weightlifting), Veddriq Leonardo (speed climbing) and Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (badminton). (Antara/Muhammad Ramdan)
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thletes have welcomed the new Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) scholarship sports program reserved for active and retired athletes across the country, highlighting the importance of sportspeople to also pursue higher education.
The state-sponsored scholarship LPDP, managed by the Finance Ministry, has earlier this year opened the new scholarships for Indonesian athletes, allowing them to have more opportunity in pursuing scholarships for master’s or doctoral degrees at home or overseas.
The scholarships are divided into two pathways: those for athletes or former athletes who have won international sporting awards and those for any athletes or sports personnel who pass a similar standard of grade per average (GPA) and English test score as the general LPDP scholarship.
“We will give our fellow athletes, who spent most of their time hard at work in sports to win the Olympics, Asian Games, SEA Games or other regional competitions, an ‘affirmation’. That is, a [looser] standard of their English fluency and GPA,” LPDP president director Sudarto said on Oct. 9 in Bogor, West Java.
“Just imagine [the absurdity] of these athletes winning competitions like the Olympics and then being asked about their GPA, when they already propped up the nation’s name [by winning the sports tournaments],” he said.
Sudarto later said on Wednesday that the program has seen a favorable interest, with 105 applicants for the achievement award pathway and 85 for the other pathway.
A total of 60 applicants combined from the two pathways are currently entering the final interview process that runs until November.
