More Than Studying Abroad: The Impacts of Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) Program To Its Alumni and Society

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10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_69How to use a DOI?

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International student mobility; Scholarship; Social impacts; Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka

Abstract

Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) is Indonesia’s prestigious scholarship and one of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology’s flagship programs. IISMA facilitates students to study at the world’s top universities for one semester. The program’s objectives include but are not limited to learning in a multidisciplinary setting, increasing cross-cultural understanding, and enhancing networks at an international level. The alumni are expected to actively participate at the organizational and/or community level after their return to Indonesia. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impacts of the IISMA program on its alumni and explore their contributions to society. A survey based on five factors that are program satisfaction, acquisition skills, application skills, attitude changes, and behavioral changes will be used and distributed to the alumni of the IISMA program from the 2021 Undergraduate program and the 2022 Bachelor and Vocational program. In addition, the participants will be directly asked regarding the impact of IISMA in their personal and academic life. The findings of this research, with 103 respondents, shows that the program has significant impact across all variables with some differences which are the program is more effective for women and younger participants, less significant impact on academic for those who are involved in casual relationships, higher impact on application skills and behavioral changes on participants from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and higher impact on acquired skills and application skills on participants that are self-employed and those pursuing postgraduate education.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shannon Ad Dawya
AU  - Ayu Okvitawanli
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/29
TI  - More Than Studying Abroad: The Impacts of Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) Program To Its Alumni and Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 617
EP  - 626
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_69
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_69
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