REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The recipient of subsidy following the increasing of fuel price apparently is not only the poor, but state universities also get the subsidy in the form of tuition fee or Endowment for Education Development (SPP), the General Director of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Djoko Santoso, said on Wednesday.

“With the subsidy, state universities need not increase the tuition fee,” he said.

The budget is from revised state budget 2012 in non-tax state revenue (PNBP) of university. The subsidy is 10 percent from the total of PNBP 2012, which is 11.1 trillion IDR. It means that the subsidy reaches 1.2 trillion IDR for 92 state universities in Indonesia. For that reason, the Ministry asks all state universities to apply single tuition fee. 

“If they have single tuition fee, we can calculate how much the percentage for the SPP subsidy,” he said.

Some universities are reported to have the tuition fee calculated and none of state universities objects to the single tuition fee concept. “Some have submitted to us,” Santoso, who is also the former rector of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), said.

Government has started to prepare the subsidy program and it will be delivered next month. The Ministry will admonish any university that rejects to apply the single tuition fee concept or burden the its student by increasing the fee.  

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