New Law Opens Door to Foreign Universities in Indonesia

An article in The Jakarta Post reports on a higher education bill that recently passed the Indonesian House of Representatives that provides higher education institutions around the world the opportunity to open branch campuses in Indonesia. Mohammed Nuh, the Education and Culture Minister in Indonesia, argued that "the bill will undoubtedly help students, especially those with limited financial support, because it obliges higher education institutions to allocate 20 percent of seats in all faculties to poor students in the hope that Indonesians, rich or poor, have equal access to quality tertiary education."

To read the full article, please visit: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/07/14/new-law-opens-door-foreign-universities.html/.