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Selection for 255 PTBA Bidiksiba Scholarship Recipients 2022
Muara Enim, June 26, 2022 – The Selection of New Student Admissions Scholarship Program Around PT Bukit Asam Tbk (Bidiksiba) has entered the Academic Potential Test stage. This test is followed by 255 people with details as follow: 163 participants from the Tanjung Enim Mining Unit (UPTE), 21 participants from the Tarahan Port Unit, 33 participants from the Ombilin Mining Unit, and 38 participants from the Kertapati Pier Unit. All come from the communities around the Company's operational areas.
The Academic Potential Test was held simultaneously in each Company's unit on Saturday, June 25, 2022. At Tanjung Enim unit, the test was carried out at the New Multipurpose Building of PTBA Tanjung Enim, inviting supervisors from the Sriwijaya State Polytechnic (Polsri), Malang State Polytechnic (Polinema), and Lampung State Polytechnic (Polinela).
PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA) CSR Finance Manager Laurentius Agus Haryadi as the Head of the Bidiksiba Team, Assistant Manager of PTBA CSR Planning Mustafa Kamal, Dicky Seprianto from Polsri, Kartika Windrajanti from Polinema, and Kasmir from Polinela attended this event.
Laurentius Agus Haryadi stated that the Academic Potential Test was expected to select the best candidates for the Bidiksiba scholarship. "Prospective recipients of the Bidiksiba Scholarship are students who come from Ring 1 of the Company with underprivileged family status. Through the Bidiksiba scholarship program, it is hoped that the selected students can experience a higher level of education and raise the status of their families," said Agus.
This year the Bidiksiba Scholarship Program collaborated with the Lampung State Polytechnic for the first time. One of the excellent study programs in Polinela is agriculture and animal husbandry. "It is hoped that this collaboration can create agricultural extension workers or agricultural experts who will later be able to support the government's Self-Sufficiency Program and also create new jobs," said Agus.
On the same occasion, the Supervisory Board of the Indonesian National Police Dicky Seprianto said that the written examination on the Academic Potential Test has been years of cooperation between PTBA and universities and proven to have produced many of the best individuals coming from the community around PTBA who can fill jobs. "It is hoped that these participants will be able to contribute to society wherever they are," he said.
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. From 2010 to 2021 there have been 286 recipients of this scholarship, 98 of them are still actively studying, while 84 alumni got jobs in various business sectors.
Besides Bidiksiba, PTBA also organizes the Ayo Sekolah Program giving 356 scholarship packages 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. To date, there are 80 Elementary School Mathematics Teachers in Muara Enim Regency who have participated in ToT activities as beneficiaries of the Gernas Tastaka program.
The Academic Potential Test was held simultaneously in each Company's unit on Saturday, June 25, 2022. At Tanjung Enim unit, the test was carried out at the New Multipurpose Building of PTBA Tanjung Enim, inviting supervisors from the Sriwijaya State Polytechnic (Polsri), Malang State Polytechnic (Polinema), and Lampung State Polytechnic (Polinela).
PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA) CSR Finance Manager Laurentius Agus Haryadi as the Head of the Bidiksiba Team, Assistant Manager of PTBA CSR Planning Mustafa Kamal, Dicky Seprianto from Polsri, Kartika Windrajanti from Polinema, and Kasmir from Polinela attended this event.
Laurentius Agus Haryadi stated that the Academic Potential Test was expected to select the best candidates for the Bidiksiba scholarship. "Prospective recipients of the Bidiksiba Scholarship are students who come from Ring 1 of the Company with underprivileged family status. Through the Bidiksiba scholarship program, it is hoped that the selected students can experience a higher level of education and raise the status of their families," said Agus.
This year the Bidiksiba Scholarship Program collaborated with the Lampung State Polytechnic for the first time. One of the excellent study programs in Polinela is agriculture and animal husbandry. "It is hoped that this collaboration can create agricultural extension workers or agricultural experts who will later be able to support the government's Self-Sufficiency Program and also create new jobs," said Agus.
On the same occasion, the Supervisory Board of the Indonesian National Police Dicky Seprianto said that the written examination on the Academic Potential Test has been years of cooperation between PTBA and universities and proven to have produced many of the best individuals coming from the community around PTBA who can fill jobs. "It is hoped that these participants will be able to contribute to society wherever they are," he said.
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. From 2010 to 2021 there have been 286 recipients of this scholarship, 98 of them are still actively studying, while 84 alumni got jobs in various business sectors.
Besides Bidiksiba, PTBA also organizes the Ayo Sekolah Program giving 356 scholarship packages 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. To date, there are 80 Elementary School Mathematics Teachers in Muara Enim Regency who have participated in ToT activities as beneficiaries of the Gernas Tastaka program.
