High Interest for Tanoto Foundation Scholarship Program

Scholarships often become parts of CSR programs of many corporations, but scholarship program from Sukanto Tanoto’s foundation, Tanoto Foundation, especially garners thousands of interested participants every year, although only hundreds of them can pass. This is because Tanoto Foundation scholarship programs offer a lot of benefits and open opportunities for students from various backgrounds to earn good education and be successful in the future.

Astonishing example is this year’s scholarship program, which has garnered about eight thousands applications, although only two hundreds scholarships given.

What Tanoto Foundation Scholarship Program Offers

Tanoto Foundation offers a lot of benefits for its scholarship programs. Applicants for undergraduate and graduate programs can get these opportunities:

·  Getting full scholarships. Tanoto Foundation scholarships give full scholarship until the end of the study period.

·  Learning at renowned universities; Tanoto Foundation partners with several recognized universities with high education standard such as Indonesia University (UI), Gadjah Mada University, Jambi University, Mulawarman University, and many more. These universities are usually quite hard to enter for students with less privileged condition, so the scholarships help more potential students to get good education.

·  Getting job opportunities. Tanoto offers more opportunities to work at RGE Group for students who receive Tanoto Foundation scholarships, to support potential Indonesian graduates and reduce outsourcing.

·  Management and leadership training. Students who receive Tanoto Foundation scholarships also get opportunities to join management and leadership training programs conducted by the foundation in certain periods. This is to make sure that students that get the scholarships have soft skills they need to compete and achieve success in the future.

These benefits have made many students competed for scholarship opportunities, and they who got the scholarships have proven themselves in scientific competitions, inventions, and many more that showed their creativity.

Selections for the Scholarship Applicants

Basically the scholarship application is similar with other programs; the interested students must send applications and essays, and go through several processes that end up in final interview. One of students that earned opportunity this year, East Javanese Ayudya Triastika, told that the interview was set like a discussion, so the interviewers got good observations on how the applicants delivering opinions and thoughts. So far, the foundation noted satisfactory progresses from students that received the scholarships.

Getting good education is right of every child, but not everyone can earn this opportunity despite their skills and potentials. Sukanto Tanoto is a man who look up to good education, and he wants to make sure that all potential students get that opportunity.