Fully Funded Scholarships for Indonesian Students 2026

Indonesian students have strong options both from the Indonesian government's own LPDP fund and from international programmes. These are the fully funded routes worth applying to in 2026.

1. LPDP Scholarship for Indonesian Students. The Indonesian government's main fund covers tuition and living costs for master's and PhD study at home and abroad, including at partner universities like Chalmers in Sweden.

2. DAAD In-Country/In-Region Scholarships at UGM. DAAD funds graduate study at Indonesian universities including Gadjah Mada, for students from the region.

3. Indonesian Women Impact Scholarship at Monash. A scholarship supporting Indonesian women studying at Monash University.

4. Indonesia-UK DIKTI Scholarship Programme. A partnership between Indonesia and UK universities funding Indonesian academics and postgraduate students in the UK.

5. Monash University Indonesia Scholarship. A scholarship for Indonesian students at Monash's Indonesia campus and in Australia.

6. BU International Partnership Scholarship for BINUS. A partnership award for students from BINUS University at Bournemouth University in the UK.

7. OTS Scholarship Fund for Indonesian Students. Funding for Indonesian students at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences.

8. Global Korea Scholarship (GKS). The Korean government's fully funded award, open to Indonesian students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

LPDP is the most important single source for Indonesian students and runs a structured application cycle every year. The international programmes add options abroad. Whichever you choose, confirm the current deadline and eligibility on the official provider website before applying.

LPDP deserves separate attention because it works differently from the international schemes. It is Indonesia's own scholarship fund, it has its own selection stages, including a scholastic test, an essay and an interview, and it expects recipients to return and contribute. Its rules about university ranking, language scores and study duration are published in its own guideline each year, and those rules, not the university's, decide eligibility.

Because LPDP funds study at a university you are admitted to, the order is reversed compared with most schemes: secure the admission first, then apply for the funding with an offer in hand. Applicants who apply to LPDP before they have a place often lose a cycle.

Australia Awards work through the country programme and its own deadline, and they include a return-home requirement. DAAD and the Chinese Government Scholarship follow their own cycles, with the nomination or embassy route deciding the real closing date.

Finally, compare what each award covers rather than its size. A stipend in Melbourne and a stipend in Jakarta are not the same amount of money, and a tuition-only award in the Netherlands leaves a gap that LPDP's full package would not.