Studeren in Nederland (StuNed) re-opened the scholarship application opportunities for Indonesian students for the academic year 2016. StuNed period itself is a scholarship program that became part of the bilateral cooperation between the Netherlands and Indonesia.
Through this program, the Dutch government has poured funds amounting to 30 million euro, equivalent to USD 400 billion over the years 2010 to 2015. Since its launch 16 years ago, there were more than 4,000 Indonesian students who had the opportunity to leave to study in the Windmills.
"This year's open bigger chance because we are also working with several agencies scholarships Indonesia," said Mervin Baker, director of Nuffic Neso Indonesia, the "Holland Scholarship Day" on Saturday (01/16/2016) at Erasmus Huis, the Dutch Embassy , Jakarta.
Mervin also said that Indonesia alone is no longer considered a developing country, especially seeing the country's role in the G20 forum. Thus, this form of funding can not be longer than donations, but joint financing.
"We continue to explore various possibilities of cooperation to incorporate a scholarship program. For example, StuNed joined the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Communications) to provide scholarships for learning cyber security related to the progress of Indonesia," said Mervin.
Fresh graduate
If previously reserved for graduates with work experience, this year StuNed opened for new graduates. Students last semester S-1 can directly prepare its purpose Master pending graduation.
"In this period as well. We not only consider the academic side, but also non-academic. We challenge of Indonesian students to explore their potential, ranging from award've got to plan educational applications in the long term," said Mervin.
The privileges associated with the framework of bilateral cooperation listed in the Multi-Annual Policy Framework 2014 to 2017. In this agreement also mentioned five areas prioritized and considered to be potential, namely security and law enforcement, water, agro-food and horticulture, transport and logistics, as well as the medical sector.
"In addition, Indonesian students have to prepare some of the administrative requirements to be accepted as evidence of a diploma, the value of English, and a letter of acceptance from the university objectives," said Mervin.
StuNed 2016 targeting 100 recipients to levels of S-2. Meanwhile, the training program will be given to five people and about 60 short courses for enthusiasts.
"Students Homeland has an average success by 90 percent during their education in the Netherlands. Usually, the thing that makes failure comes from personal problems. For example, it is difficult to adjust to European culture," added Indy Hardono, Team Coordinator Scholarship Netherlands Education Support Office (NESO), were also present at the event.
Therefore, before applying for a scholarship, students have to prepare yourself for the education that will be taken. Can not be denied, that Europe and Indonesia have very different teaching patterns.
"However, for the cultural background and life itself, students do not need to worry because our country and the Netherlands have much in common. We call it a home away from home (as close as hometown)," said Indy.
Other conveniences, further Indy, Dutch society is so diverse and most can speak English. Also in terms of food, Indonesian food commonplace once found.
For Indonesian students who are interested to register StuNed, Master scholarship program will be closed on April 1, 2016 while for the Short Course program terminated on October 1, 2016. The program registration Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) and the program Orange Tulip Scholarship (OTS) has been open since December 2015.
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