SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
SDG 1 : NO POVERTY
“Over 10% of the world’s population live in extreme poverty, unable to fulfill the most basic needs such as food, health, education, access to clean water and sanitation. Universities need to be able to demonstrate how they are helping to address this problem through their work.” (THE Impact Rankings)
University Anti-Poverty Programs
IPB has targets to admit students from families which income of less than IDR 4 million per month, as much as 25%, as stated in the Contract of Performance (point 1) between the Ministry of Education and the Rector.
IPB Strategic Plan 2019 -2023 (pg. 22, no. 4) also states the commitment to give priority to young generations from forest-community, fishermen, and farmer households in which most are from low-income households. Progress in 2020 shows that 30% of our students came from a low-income family (stated in annual reports of the Directorate of Students Affairs and Career Development (page 5-6). They received KIPK and affirmative scholarships (the Rector Decree No.196, 228, 243, and 205 in 2020).
IPB also implements the Equitable Academic Tuition Fee (UKT) scheme, considering the socio-economic backgrounds of the students. Some students from very low-income families were exempted from paying the Institution and Facility Development Fee (BPIF).
IPB’s Strategic Plans 2019 – 2023, page 19, point 1 (criteria 5) states timely graduation as one of the key performance indicators (KPI) to create quality graduates, which has been used as one of the faculty performance indicators (point 9) written in the agreement between the rector and the deans.
In addition, IPB adopts a new performance indicator, namely the ability of fresh graduates to either get proper jobs, pursue graduate study, or create new businesses with proper income. In 2020, the target was 80% (page 36, paragraphs 3-4), but due to Covid-19the, the achievement was slightly low, namely 64.16%. All graduation targets apply to all students, including those in the bottom 20% of the household income group.
IPB University provides various support for students, particularly from low-income families, to enable them to complete their studies. During the pandemic, almost all student return to their home, but some students still stay on campus. IPB provides 50 packages daily, including milk and fruit, especially for low-income students in the campus areas.
IPB provides a subsidized dormitory for all first-year students with a capacity of 4078 students, which is much cheaper than private ones. The student dormitory consists of 10 building blocks which include 6 female dormitories and 4 male dormitories.
IPB Unversity also provides free public transportation, including 8 units of buses that operate regularly from 7 AM to 7 PM and more than 700 bicycles that can be used by all students, especially for students from low-income families as a means of transportation on campus every day.
IPB University has some programs and initiatives to assist students from a low-income economy to successfully complete their studies, including scholarships, tuition subsidies or exemptions, and internet quota subsidies. In 2020, 1026 students received tuition fees and living cost assistance as in Rector’s Decree No. 196, 228, and 243/IT3/KM/2020, 76 scholarships from the alumni foundation (YAPI), 15 affirmative scholarships, some other scholarships available for students from this low-income group.
IPB also provides internet quota subsidy for students to support distance learning during the covid-19 pandemic for all students, as in the Rector Decree no. 92/IT3/KM/2020.
Official IPB Press revealed several programs or initiatives implemented by IPB to support students from low-income families. IPB Rector said, “….no students drop out (DO) just because they cannot pay tuition fee. We will find resources such as foster students by alumni”.
In 2020, there are 35 international students from lower-middle-income countries received scholarships to study at IPB, including SEARCA and Kemitraan Negara Berkembang (KNB) scholarships. Those scholarship awardees come from countries, such as Thailand, Timor Leste, Pakistan, Rwanda, etc.
IPB is one of the members of the SEARCA consortium, which serves as a study destination for Master and Doctoral scholars from Southeast Asian countries who are granted a scholarship from this institution (link 1).
The Kemitraan Negara Berkembang (KNB) Scholarship is offered by The Ministry of Education and Culture and GIZ to international students from developing countries to pursue their Master’s and Doctoral degrees in several universities in Indonesia IPB is one of the universities assigned to this program (link 2). IPB also provides an international student dormitory at a lower price. IPB is also renovating 2 buildings for international students.
Community Anti-Poverty Programs
IPB University has a long record in community development, including providing assistance for start-ups in the local community to sustain their businesses, such as:
- IPB established Science Techno Park (STP) to provide services and development for startup entrepreneurs, assist tenants/start-ups to increase knowledge and capacity on product branding and online strategic marketing, and develop business partnerships.
- P2SDM IPB initiated Village Campus Program in 2016, and in 2020 there have been, 43 Village Campus established. The program educates the local business actors to enhance their business and economy through self-help and multi-sharing patterns among various stakeholders.
- The program of One Village One CEO provides assistance and training for local farmers and start-ups in 53 villages in4 districts.
Since 2016, IPB University has developed an incubation program for start-ups under the Science Techno Park (STP IPB). In 2020, this program provided seed capital assistance of up to 100 million rupiah pertinent (link 1, page 6 “Kegiatan Inkubasi, point 7”). 10 start-up businesses have benefited from this program (link 2). STP IPB has a prominent record in developing business incubators, and in 2020, Startup Tenant STP IPB University Won Indonesia Food Innovation 2020 (link 3).
Under the program, One Village One CEO, IPB, in collaboration with some companies, also provide financial, production inputs, and equipment assistance, such as feeder cows, smart greenhouse, lawn mower, etc., to farmers involved in this program who practice various agriculture activities.
IPB University actively organizes training or programs to improve access to basic services for all. Primakelola IPB successfully held Urban Farming Training Series in 2020. There were 4 training sessions held with the theme of urban farming, microgreens cultivation, hydroponic and verticulture cultivation, and high-nutrition fun agriculture.
IPB has also organized several pieces of training directly to the community in Kelapa Dua Island to develop new businesses in fisheries sectors and entrepreneurs. This training was expected to increase regional economic activities based on regional natural resources and strengthen the foundation of marine aquaculture agribusiness on Kelapa Dua Island.
To reduce the production cost, IPB students and lecturers have trained cattle farmers to process livestock waste into organic fertilizer. This will support the production sustainability of farming land as it is prevented from high chemical fertilizer exposure (Ev.3).
- Local Level: IPB provides recommendations for the arrangement of the Mid-term Development Planning of Malang and Bogor Districts, in which one focuses on poverty eradication.
- National Level: IPB has assisted the Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs in eradicating poverty and reducing economic inequalities through the Village PrecisionProgram. IPB submitted a policy brief to the Ministry of Village, Disadvantages Regions & Transmigration on developing the national economy from rural in post-covid and sent a review of the UUNo 11 on Job Creation draft to the House of Representatives.
- Regional Level: Prof. Hardinsyah has been elected as the President of AsianNutrition Societies to promote nutrition improvement, one of the poverty dimensions.
- Global Level: IPB was invited to a meeting on DigitalAgriculture: Challenges to be Addressed at FAO Head Office in Rometo to deliver a speech on how universities develop innovations to develop agriculture and increase farmer welfare.
SDG 1 IN NUMBER
30,877
Number of Students
9,972
Number of low income students receiving financial aid
0,27
Proportion of Students Receiving Financial Aid
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