Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology has prepared a budget of 14.69 trillion IDR (nearly 900 million USD) for the 2025 Smart University Indonesia Card (KIP Kuliah) programme for 1,040,192 recipients.

The ministry's Secretary General, Suharti told the press after the meeting with Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives on June 5 that the budget allocation increased, from 13.99 trillion IDR to 14.69 trillion IDR next year, however, it is slightly lower than the proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year of 14.73 trillion IDR.

KIP Kuliah programme is a Smart Indonesia Program for Higher Education targeting students from low-income or vulnerable family backgrounds to help them study in superior study programmes at both state universities and private universities she elaborated.

Suharti remarked that recipients for KIP Kuliah are high school graduates or equivalent and are accepted at accredited universities in accredited study programs through all university enrollments, such as the Achievement-based National Selection, Text-based National Selection, or independent test.

Recipients of KIP Kuliah must meet economic requirements that include several priorities, with the first priority being holders of KIP SMA or equivalent or the Smart Indonesia Programme.

For the second priority, recipients must be listed in the Integrated Social Welfare Data or recipients of social assistance from the Family Hope Programme, Prosperous Family Card, or recorded in a maximum of category three for the Acceleration of Elimination of Extreme Poverty/Targeting the Elimination of Extreme Poverty.

The third priority is children in o♔rphanages or social institutions, while the fourth priority is low-income or vulnerable families, with a combined income of parents or guardians of 4 million IDR per month or the combined gross income of parents or guardians divided by the number of family members at a maximum of 750,000 IDR per person, with proof of a Certificate of Incapacity, she said./.