Why is It
so Difficult to Get a Scholarship?
Chory Trisa Yuanilasari/130222614304
Education
is a must for everyone in the world. They have the same rights to have proper
or even better education. There are a lot of ways to achieve proper and better
education, one of which is by applying scholarship. Scholarship is available
for everyone who has ability to study and change the world. Scholarships in
Indonesia are available in many different types, one of which is the scholarship
for undergraduate students.
Higher
education such as universities in Indonesia almost has the same problem:
expense. Many of the people in Indonesia are having trouble to study better
because of money’s lacking. They are also unable to get better studies because
of the school fee is expensive, the book is expensive with the minimum price is
around Rp 150.000, and learning facility which is overpriced such as laptop with
the cheapest price is around Rp. 3.700.000 since this is the most crucial stuff
to be owed by students. Therefore, many of them are working while studying. The
result is they end up to work in order to finance their study rather than to
focus in studying. They should be studying to work. However, the fact says that
they are working to study. Indonesia as one of developing country is having
this problem. As a developing country, Indonesia is fighting to fix its
education system by providing many scholarships; for government or
non-government institution. LPDP (Lembaga
Pengembangan Dana Pendidikan) as one of the government institution is given
the right and duty to manage education fund by providing undergraduate scholarship
as one of their program (Tan, 2014). LPDP provides scholarship for
undergraduate student notably for Indonesian undergraduate student to take the
higher education such as attending university in Indonesia and also cooperates
with some universities in the world. LPDP finances students to study in famous
and the best universities in Indonesia such as Indonesia University or other
universities in other countries, such as Queensland University to study
appropriates with their major they concerned.
As well
as the government institution, Indonesia has many non-government institutions
which provide scholarship for undergraduate student. For example is Beasiswa Djarum. Beasiswa Djarum is a form from Djarum,
one of the local products of cigarettes in Indonesia, who gives distribution
for education in Indonesia. It gives undergraduate student tuition fee included
book fee, and so on. Beasisw aDjarum
focuses on giving scholarship for student who has no enough money to continue
his or her higher study but they have ability and special skill such as having
higher IQ and has been participated in many education Olympiads (unknown, 2015).
Another example of non- government institution that gives scholarships is from
the banks in Indonesia, for instance, beasiswa
Mandiri and beasiswa BCA. Both of
them are non-government banks who give scholarship for undergraduate student by
financing all the study tuition and life tuition during their study.
Non-government institution usually choose low-income students who longing to
continue the study (Ratih, 2015)
Many of
students in the world are hesitant to take the opportunity to study aboard
whereas there are a lot of chances to be achieved by them. As well as local
government, foreign government also provides scholarship for undergraduate
student (Zacky, 2014). Foreign countries
which are its government provided scholarships for undergraduate student is
United States of America. According to official website of AMINEF, AMINEF is
one of the examples of United States of America government’s program who
provides scholarships for undergraduate students. With their program called AMINEF
UGRAD, many undergraduate students in developing countries are able to join and
apply scholarships. They are given the opportunity to study in universities in
U.S.A and study their concern deeper. Other government institution in other
country which also provides scholarships for undergraduate studentsis Japan.
One of the physic lecturers in State University of Malang, Mr. Anugrah Ricky
Wijaya maintains that Monbusho is one
of scholarships given by government institution of Japan and Makita scholarship is one of scholarships
given by non-government institution in Japan. Both are providing scholarships
for undergraduate students who are willing to study higher in Japan (Wijaya, 2014).
Other problems
of why undergraduate students are hesitant to apply scholarship are the
application. Mostly institutions giving scholarship are having the same
requirements for the application. However, the students’ unknown about
requirements is the main problem. If only students know and understand what
they need to study, they will be able to pass through the scholarship’s
requirements (Zacky, 2014). If we draw out the straight line, requirements of
applying scholarships are almost the same even different types of scholarships.
The main requirements to be fulfilled are TOEFL or IELTS certificate with
minimum score is 500 for TOEFL and 5,0 for IELTS, online application, statement
of purposes, letter of recommendation, transcript, resume of CV, financial
statement, health form, and tests’ scores (unknown, 2014). Those can be prepared for less than a
month. Mario A. De Anda from Hispanic Scholarship
Fund that for all those requirements, writing a good statement of purpose or
essay will affect too much the selecting team to decide whether she or he
passes the selection section. In addition, Kimberly Hall from the United NegroCollege
Fund administers said that writing good essay means the content of the
essay should have quality and point on how we should get the scholarship.
Bringing the selection team’s emotion up also can be one of the jackpots.
However, in recent days, the selection team chooses the strong and innovative essay
rather than emotional essay (Tanabe, Kelly and Gen, 2000).
Education
becomes the parameter of comprehension and competence of people in a country.
Thus, Indonesia as developing country has been trying to develop the education
system by providing scholarship, especially for undergraduate student whether
government and non-government have provided scholarship. Both institutions have
cooperated to develop the education system to produce human being who can
continue and make a better future for their country. However, unknown of
student about the scholarship’s information itself prevent them for getting the
chance. They should realize that scholarship in Indonesia has been developed
better. It affects the others. They become unaware about how to apply without
careful in filling the requirements. That
is why after knowing the steps, students will do not afraid to apply
scholarship. All you need is courage. Good luck!
References:
· A seminar
called “Distance isn’t Reason to be Success” held by
student organization of biology program in State University of Malang, 2014.
· A seminar
called “Scholarship Talkshow” held by PBI and IDP in Azet Language Center, Malang,
2014.
· Tanabe,
Kelly and Gen. 2000. How To Write A Winning Essay. SuperCollege,LLC
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