Scholarship is given only to students of High Schools by reasoning that in Indonesia, high school is the gate to have access to a better living condition, either as social intellectual knowledge or to have further education, academy and university.
SCHOLARSHIP
As it is long explained earlier, it may be concluded that the Indonesian-Arab generation at the moment is in a very critical situation that needs immediate help so they can normatively keep their existence as a minority of Arab ethnic in Indonesia.
The Indonesian-Arab students are generally enthusiastic of having high education for their future carrier either as self-employed society or involved in employment. And it is a very important foundation justifying that they deserve donation for their noble purposes.
To day there are 28.468 High School students who can not complete their education and it is because of their parents are unable to pay tuition fees drawn by the school. There is nothing they can do. Their children are forced to leave schools, a place where they can hope for a better life.
Education in Indonesia is expensive to most Indonesians. Averagely, Public High Schools in Indonesia draw $150 - $700 from each student as registration fee. And later, they will collect $7 - $13 as monthly payment. Besides all of those costs, parents still have to provide transportation and pocket money for their children. And it range in $30 - $40 a month. This practice is implemented despite Government campaign of ‘Free Tuition’.
The amount of scholarship that will be given depends on the student living region. In Indonesia, cost of living in every region is always different.
The scholarship is estimated range $10 - $15 a month for each student and it will be transferred to student’s or family’s bank account every quarterly or given cash or directly paid to the schools where the students study. Student or family who will receive the scholarship will be carefully selected. Priority is highly put to High School student base on the reasons above.
The Amount of Scholarship Needed (Table D)
SELECTION OF SCHOLARSHIP RECEIVERS
A few steps has been arranged to avoid mistakes due to the distribution of the scholarship. It is understandable that any careful observation is necessary to find the receiver who really deserves the aid.
The steps are:
1. Special form will be distributed begin with the city where the highest number of Indonesian Arab population lives. The form is filled out with family detail information that includes monthly income/income resources. Every family can get the form from their community leader (quite often the Indonesian Arab community has an informal leader who is fully respected) or from Akhmad Al-Hassny Foundation office or hot line. The ready form sends by mail to Akhmad Al-Hassny Foundation office.
2. The form then selected to find family who meets the criteria as low income family. Later, the family will be interviewed (or even visited) to prove as what has been stated on the form. That family must also give three references from others who can support the fidelity of the information they have filled out on the form.
3. All forms and the results of interview will be processed to get more accurate
selection for the scholarship receivers. As the process completed, the family
selected will be informed and the school where the students study will also
be contacted.
4. All forms sent will be kept as Akhmad Al-Hassny Foundation data base and
they will be regularly checked to know that they are proved to be correct. Should there be any improper information or the information given contradict the real condition, it may cause the scholarship be annulled.
Scholarship is indeed the only major contribution to help the Indonesian-Arabs in Indonesia to help themselves for better living condition in future so they are able to stand equally as one of the foreign ethnic groups in the development of Indonesia as their country.
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