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PTBA Grants Bidiksiba Scholarships for 49 Students This Year
Muara Enim, August 22, 2022 - PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA) held the scholarship award ceremony for grantees of Scholarship Program Around PT Bukit Asam Tbk (Bidiksiba) for 2022/2023 academic year on August 17, 2022 at the PTBA Tanjung Enim KBL Field, during the 77th Independence Day of Republic of Indonesia celebration.
PTBA Director of Operations and Production Suhedi, Director of Finance and Risk Management Farida Thamrin, Director of Business Development Rafli Yandra, and Director of Human Resources PTBA Suherman symbolically handed over the Bidiksiba scholarship to the grantees.
Bidiksiba is an educational scholarship program given by PTBA to senior high school graduates or equivalent coming from underprivileged families around the Company's operational areas so they would be able to get higher education.
This year, there are 49 students receiving the Bidiksiba scholarship from around Tanjung Enim Mining Unit (25 students), Kertapati Pier Unit (8 students), Tarahan Port Unit (10 students), and Ombilin Unit (6 students).
25 students are admitted to Malang State Polytechnic, 19 students to Sriwijaya State Polytechnic, and 5 students to Lampung State Polytechnic. This year the Bidiksiba Scholarship Program collaborated with the Lampung State Polytechnic for the first time.
The criteria and requirements set for Bidiksba scholarship recipients include
Participants must be domiciled in the PTBA Ring 1 area, such as Tanjung Enim, Kertapati Pier, Tarahan, and Ombilin.
Second, participants come from underprivileged communities with supported document on personal and family data, with visit verification and no other family member who had received Bidiksiba scholarships in the past.
Third, participants are required to take psychological tests organized by PTBA and academic tests organized by the targeted polytechnics – Sriwijaya State Polytechnic, Malang State Polytechnic and Lampung State Polytechnic.
"PT Bukit Asam Tbk has commitment to eradicate poverty through education. We hope that Bidiksiba beneficiaries will make the most of this scholarship for their education and will have job competitiveness after they graduate to improve their families welfare," said PTBA CSR Finance Manager Laurentius Agus Haryadi, who is also the Head of the Bidiksiba Team.
From 2010 to 2022 there have been 333 recipients of this scholarship, 147 of them are still actively studying, while 109 alumni got jobs in various business sectors.
Besides Bidiksiba, PTBA also organizes the Ayo Sekolah Program, giving scholarship for underprivileged students, and the National Movement for the Eradication of Mathematics Illiteracy (Gernas Tastaka) to improve the mathematical competence of elementary school teachers in the Muara Enim Regency area, selected by the Muara Enim Education and Culture Office.
PTBA Director of Operations and Production Suhedi, Director of Finance and Risk Management Farida Thamrin, Director of Business Development Rafli Yandra, and Director of Human Resources PTBA Suherman symbolically handed over the Bidiksiba scholarship to the grantees.
Bidiksiba is an educational scholarship program given by PTBA to senior high school graduates or equivalent coming from underprivileged families around the Company's operational areas so they would be able to get higher education.
This year, there are 49 students receiving the Bidiksiba scholarship from around Tanjung Enim Mining Unit (25 students), Kertapati Pier Unit (8 students), Tarahan Port Unit (10 students), and Ombilin Unit (6 students).
25 students are admitted to Malang State Polytechnic, 19 students to Sriwijaya State Polytechnic, and 5 students to Lampung State Polytechnic. This year the Bidiksiba Scholarship Program collaborated with the Lampung State Polytechnic for the first time.
The criteria and requirements set for Bidiksba scholarship recipients include
Participants must be domiciled in the PTBA Ring 1 area, such as Tanjung Enim, Kertapati Pier, Tarahan, and Ombilin.
Second, participants come from underprivileged communities with supported document on personal and family data, with visit verification and no other family member who had received Bidiksiba scholarships in the past.
Third, participants are required to take psychological tests organized by PTBA and academic tests organized by the targeted polytechnics – Sriwijaya State Polytechnic, Malang State Polytechnic and Lampung State Polytechnic.
"PT Bukit Asam Tbk has commitment to eradicate poverty through education. We hope that Bidiksiba beneficiaries will make the most of this scholarship for their education and will have job competitiveness after they graduate to improve their families welfare," said PTBA CSR Finance Manager Laurentius Agus Haryadi, who is also the Head of the Bidiksiba Team.
From 2010 to 2022 there have been 333 recipients of this scholarship, 147 of them are still actively studying, while 109 alumni got jobs in various business sectors.
Besides Bidiksiba, PTBA also organizes the Ayo Sekolah Program, giving scholarship for underprivileged students, and the National Movement for the Eradication of Mathematics Illiteracy (Gernas Tastaka) to improve the mathematical competence of elementary school teachers in the Muara Enim Regency area, selected by the Muara Enim Education and Culture Office.
