Point of View: Should I Pay Expensive for My Education?
A judicial review about the Constitutional Court Law №12/ 2012 on a higher of education has a lot of judgments which is concerns with the result of intellectual autonomy of higher education. The lack of common person’s knowledge about the importance of higher education forces them to limit their access in reaching a study, including what the fund is.
Constitutional Court Law chapter II in section 6 about higher education is principles and responsibilities of higher education. Alignments on a society that is economically disadvantaged are already written in the law considered no longer to be applied and existed by the college recently.
The fact-based on BPS in August 2012, the Indonesian population who works as many as 110.8 million people, is still dominated by graduates of elementary school education as much as 53.88 million (48.63%) and graduates SMP 20.22 million (18.25%). While university graduates who worked only reached 6.98 million people. It means just 6.30%. Besides, Diploma graduates only 2.97 million people (2.68%).
However, there are a lot of types in giving a chance to people who cannot join college study. Scholarships and student financing are the choice example of funds types in a college. Though financial assistance which areas the aids to support study in higher education has already given, there are still many uncommon rules to give it back. It might be alright for every side if the rules are matched and approved by the guarantor of funds between the various sides and person-funded.
In addition, the interest in form of these funds or the form of long devotion can make a limitation for living costs are considered as the rule for operational refund.
The decision to choose funds in continuing studies in a higher level of education has to be considered separately. Especially for common people who do not know the meaning of a treaty which is offered as a rule of the channeling institution. In conclusion, the funding is not easy for every people who need this access.
The most important arts that should get attention are the kind of financial support or funding that the government offered and the rules autonomy of funding that college gives.
One of the facts in the real life that has been thought in the field there is an institution. The institution offered a student financially to students who must pay back or and give a contribution to his institution after they have graduated. Payback here means that the students have to pay back what the institution gives to them. But, students must pay back with the interest of that student financially or and after they have already paid back students' finances, they should give their contribution to the institution after they graduate.
The institution wants to keep its students to get their contribution to the institution. Besides that, the contribution has a limit. The limit means that there is a regulation about their contribution, for example, the institution decides the time of the students to stop giving their contribution to the institution.
The student financial system keeps the students as a member although they have already given their contribution to the institution. Based on the fact that we have already found about 6.98 million of the students’ graduate who does not have an opportunity to pay back and they are just having an opportunity to give their contribution. Should the students pay back to their institution?
In that case, the institution has to think about their country which has to be considered. The contribution means that it is not about the amount of money to be given as payback, but it is more about a sincere contribution such as a developing country with meritorious service.
So far the government has been already trying to recreate and conduct a review of regulation that already exists, but in practice, it does not fully support the legislation that has been written. Universities’ policies are considered less partial to the students because the students still do not get the maximum achievement. For example, the amounts of graduates and employments opportunities are lack of.
If it is deemed necessary, there is a follow-up review of the field on the institutions channeling funds that are doing a collaboration with universities in providing educational grants. So there will be no cheating from students to incriminate in getting education grants.
It does not seem easy, but firmness in the implementation of regulatory clarity is also needed as a form of financial assistance offered by various institutions.
