Siti Nurul Hidayah,S.PdI.
I am a trainer in 2005, English Teachers Workshop in conjunction with Kangguru Radio English with 110 teachers
participated from SMP and SMA level in 2006, English Olympiad with more than 700 students participated, English
Speech Contest II with more than 60 students participated from SMP and SMA students and Follow Up Workshop for
English Teachers connected with KGRE in 2007.All events were supported by DIKNAS (local education department)
and PEMKAB (local government) Kab. Trenggalek.
In early year of 2008, I was active to search the scholarship opportunity by browsing on the internet and participating
in some education seminars conducted by IDP Malang. From the seminar, I got invaluable information about DIKTI
scholarship. There are more than 1500 scholarships to pursue overseas postgraduate/ PhD program (S2/S3) for lecturers
from many discipline subjects in 2008. Providentially, I was the winner of the third batch of scholarship awards
with more than 900 lecturers to study all around the world, such us; Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Australia, UK,
America etc. I chose Australia as my destination country to dig up my teaching skills. This scholarship has many
requirements, such us:
1. Fill form A of scholarship from DIKTI.
2. We should be a lecturer.
3. We should be accepted in one university abroad, proofed by Letter of Acceptance (LoA) or Offering Letter from
the university abroad.
4. Addition letter such us: TOEFL/IELTS certificate or another language certificate, recommendation letter, CV,
etc
5. For PhD program, should attach research proposal.
Send it to Direktur Ketenagaan, Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi lantai 5 Departemen Pendidikan Nasional
Jalan Pintu I – Senayan, Jakarta.
After waiting for one month, for selected candidate of awardees, there will be interview test and the final result
will be announced later. More information about this scholarship, log on www.ditnaga-dikti.org.
My suggestion for all KGI enthusiasts in seeking scholarship:
1. Search information about scholarship from internet, education seminars and friends, and the most important
thing; don’t hesitate to ask everything if you are not sure about information. (“sungkan” or
shy is dissolved problem for Indonesian people).
2. you should have constructive activities to perfect your curriculum vitae (many social and volunteer activities
are essential and the pictures of your activities are needed )
3. You should be active to contact the university abroad by sending mail and print your mail as a proof.
4. Keep on learning English by reading KGI magazine and listening KGI program on the radio, joining English club
and practicing English more.
5. Try harder than somebody else.
I have reached my first dream and I still have many other dreams. A miracle is coming with an intense shot and
nothing is impossible for me. How about you?
Big thank to Kang Guru Indonesia which always assists my English club, education in my hometown and specially
my life. I can not imagine how I reach my dream without knowing KGI.
Keep on trying and learning English more…
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