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Jul 31, 2015 21:00 JST
Indonesia Set to Take Strides in Post-Graduate Education
JAKARTA, Jul 31, 2015 - (ACN Newswire) - The Indonesian government has set an ambitious target in education with holders of master degrees to be increased by seven times in proportion to the population in 10 years.
The number of Indonesians holding master degrees would be increased to 16,000 from 2,300 at present per one million of the population in 2015, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said.
The ratio for those holding doctorates is expected to shoot up to 1,400 per million of the population from 143 at present, the minister said.
The increase in the ratio would contribute to expansion of the country's tertiary educational institutions with the availability of larger numbers of qualified lecturers, he said.
For that purpose the government has set aside 20 percent of the state budget fund for education and provide an endowment fund for education, he said.
The endowment fund is held and managed by the Education Fund Management Agency (LPDP) to be used to finance scholarships.
The minister said the government will continue efforts to improve the quality of the country's human resources as the key factor in seeking to improve the economic welfare of the country.
He said currently Indonesia is placed in the category of "lower middle income country", but southeast Asia's largest economy is expected to rank among fastest growing economies.
Indonesia is the second fastest growing economy among 18 largest economies in the world including Japan, the United States, Turkey, South Korea, Brazil, India, China, and Russia in 2009-2015.
"In the future, our economy is expected to be more dominant and grow to become the 7th largest economy in then world in 2030," the minister said.
LPDP is an agency under the finance ministry now holding Rp15.6 trillion in endowment fund derived from the state budgets in 2010-2013.
The minister said the endowment fund is expected to help create a golden generation in Indonesia in 2045.
He said the government hope to see the country competitive in human resources more than in natural resources in 2045 when 75 percent of Indonesian youths of 19-23 years in age are studying at high educational institutes.
He said currently Indonesia has good momentum with domination of productive age until 2035 with declining proportion of people of advanced age and young children.
Based on data at the finance ministry until the first half of 2015, there were 6,335 recipients of LPDP scholarship including 4,543 scholarship for master degree and 878 for doctorate. --Antara.
Sectors: Daily Finance, Daily News
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