The LPDP (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) provides scholarships for Master’s and PhD programmes for Indonesian citizens with excellent academic achievements and strong leadership qualities. LPDP has so far provided scholarships to 18,466 Indonesian students, 51% of which choose to study abroad. The UK has been the number one most popular study destination chosen by the LPDP scholarships awardees.

Different from previous years, LPDP has open two phases in 2019 for academic year 2019/20 intake. Below is the published timeline from their website:

Important Notes:

1. Both intakes are eligible for domestic and foreign study destinations.
2. Scholarship applicants who do not pass the administrative or computer-based selection stage, are allowed to re-register at phase 2 in the same year on the same or different program.
3. Applicants who do not pass the interview panel are not allowed to register again at phase 2 in the same year for all Programs
4. Phase 1 highlights:

1. Applicant will be divided into two interview panels; Interview I is for applicants who submit LoA unconditional when registering Online while Interview II is for applicants who do not attach unconditional LoA when registering Online.
2. For applicants who already have unconditional LoA when registering online, the computer Based Selection will be conducted according to the location that they select. Additionally, if they pass, the interview location will be conducted in either Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta.

5. Applicants who submit their unconditional LoA at the time of online registration are eligible to enter University domestic intake in August 2019 and Foreign intake in September 2019 (limited for top rank university only).
6. Applicants who did not submit or submitted Unconditional LoA that are not within top ranked university will only be eligible to start their studies in 2020.
7. Phase 2 applies for university intake at the earliest in January 2020.

Commentary by Audrie Adriana Sanova

Indonesia is predominantly a postgraduate market for UK Universities. Based on LPDP report 2017, UK is ranked number one foreign destination with 895 awardees, 8.97% of the total scholars.

Indonesian students are highly motivated to study abroad, but there are quite a significant number of them that are scholarship dependent. When deciding where to study, important aspects to be considered is the reputation of the host country (84%) and overall cost of study (80%). Hence, affordability is one of the major factors for students when considering study destination.  

With LPDP opening two registration phase this year, this will give more opportunity for listed UK universities to recruit scholarships students from Indonesia. Aside from that the students also have opportunity to apply for two intakes 2019 and 2020.

Source:

https://www.lpdp.kemenkeu.go.id/pembukaan-beasiswa-pendidikan-indonesia-lpdp-tahun-2019/