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Indonesia, Netherlands to cooperate on scholarships
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EP-Nuffic director Theo Hooghiemstra (left) and LPDP president director Eko Prasetyo speak to journalists after signing a Memorandum of Understanding at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta on Thursday. (thejakartapost.com/Anton Hermansyah)
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PDP, the Finance Ministry’s scholarship program, partnered with the Dutch government’s scholarship program EP-Nuffic on Thursday to formalize the expansion of collaboration between the two institutions, an official said.
The partnership, which consists of scholarship and research programs, precedes the Indonesia-Netherlands education partnership agreement that will be signed by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday in the Netherlands.
"The MoU will formalize the increased collaboration. There will be joint programs as well as joint scholarships," Professor Ainun Na’im, secretary-general for the Research and Technology and Higher Education Ministry, said.
LPDP will also learn how to manage alumni from the Nuffic program. The Dutch institution successfully manages 8,000 alumni.
"In LPDP, we have management for alumni. After they graduate, they need to report to LPDP and then we manage their database. We don’t promise them jobs but we offer them to government bodies,” President Director of LPDP Eko Prasetyo said.
"Around 5,000 Indonesian students have enrolled with StuNed [EP-Nuffic's scholarship program] in 13 years. Each year we get about 1,600 Indonesian students in the Netherlands and about 150-200 go through StuNed," EP-Nuffic director Theo Hooghiemstra told thejakartapost.com (bbn)
