Ancora Foundation Fellowships

Providing access to best universities

Ancora Fellowship program had been the anchor of our Foundation during its early years. This program was self-funded by Ancora Group of Companies and its Founder. Under this program, we have sent students to obtain under- and post-graduate degrees nationally and abroad, including:

Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Sciences Po, Nanyang Technological University, and best Universities in West Java

All scholarships under Ancora Fellowship program had been completed and no longer take applications.

• Years: 2008-2015
• Donors: Founder, Ancora Group
• Locations: USA, UK, France, Singapore, and West Java
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Sharing the Dream

Fostering students' aspirations

Sharing the Dream is SCG's support in Indonesia's human development efforts. This is in line with their commitment to contribute to produce long-term improvements in its social and economic aspects.

The program provides education scholarships to as many as 400 high school and 10 undergraduate students annually who are originating around SCG’s operational areas.

• Year: 2012-now
• Donor: SCG
• Locations: Banten, Jakarta, West Java
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Pemuda Bangkit Berkarya

Empowering youths in South Sumatera

This program runs under ConocoPhillips (Grissik) Ltd’s support for education. The program has been conducted since 2002, and up to now, more than 3,000 students have received the funding supports.

Recruiting around 400 undergraduate students annually around South Sumatera areas, Ancora Foundation has been the implementing partner for this program since 2016.

Branded as “Pemuda Bangkit Berkarya”, this program also provides capacity building and social entrepreneurship elements, with the objective to enhance the students’ soft skills, as well as to encourage them to give back and initiate progress in their home villages.

• Years: 2015-now
• Donor: ConocoPhillips (Grissik) Ltd.
• Locations: South Sumatera
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Education Program in Anambas Islands

Developing Anambas Islands

This is a support for education program that specifically serves students in Anambas Island areas, and is supported by Medco E&P Natuna Ltd. (MEPN). Under this program, we annually recruit 40 Anambas-origin students to continue their undergraduate studies in various universities around Indonesia.

In addition to provision of funding to pay for tuition fees, this program also provides relevant trainings to upgrade the students’ skills so they can overcome challenges in their future lives.

• Years: 2015-now
• Donor: Medco E&P Natuna Ltd.
• Locations: Riau Islands and Jakarta
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Vocational Scholarships

Preparing students for labor market

This program, tackling both formal and non-formal approach, aims to help creating new generation of skilled workers to meet Indonesia's demand of 3.8 million skilled workers annually in 2030.

Formally, the foundation partnered with Coca-Cola Foundation Indonesia in 2011-2014, to educate talented students to high quality vocational schools. During the collaboration, we have sent 154 students to vocational schools in ATMI Solo, ATMI Cikarang, Politeknik Manufaktur Bandung, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, and Universitas Udayana.

Ancora Foundation also embeds non-formal vocational courses relating to entrepreneurial, digital, or financial skills, within our other scholarship programs.

• Years: 2012-now
• Donor: Coca-Cola Foundation Indonesia, other scholarship donors
• Locations: all across Indonesia
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Khazanah Asia Scholarship

Partnering to find future leaders

The Khazanah Asia Scholarship and the Khazanah Asia (Global) Scholarship program are initiatives from Yayasan Khazanah in collaboration with Ancora Foundation to allow Indonesians to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate educations at leading universities outside Indonesia.

It seeks candidates with excellent academic record, rigor in extracurricular activity, sense of future ambition and have strong leadership skills. It is a highly competitive process. A maximum of five scholars for undergraduate and one for postgraduate will be selected from a pool of thousands of applications.

All scholarship under Khazanah Asia Scholarship had been completed and no longer take applications.

• Years: 2008-2018
• Donor: Yayasan Khazanah
• Locations: Malaysia
• Focus: Scholarship Management

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Pendidikan Maju Anak Bangsa

Nurturing Indonesia's children

Pendidikan Maju Anak Bangsa (previously called "Sekolah Rakyat Ancora") started in 2008, stemming from the fact that many vulnerable, low-income children lack access to high-quality early childcare or preschool programs. Yet, a strong body of research shows that evidence-based kindergarten programs can improve the trajectory of disadvantaged young children’s education, health, economic and life outcomes.

Basing its method on character-based curriculum, the program places 2 teachers from each participating school to undergo an 11 days intensive training that promote the adoption of teaching models which in the end will improve young children’s language, literacy, numeracy and socio-emotional skills. Modules include aspects of pedagogy, physical activity and nutrition education.

• Years: 2008-now
• Donor: Ancora Group, Give2Asia, United Nations Women's Guild, MNK, PGN, CMNP, Tirta Arta Makmur, and individual donors
• Locations: All across Indonesia
• Focus: Teacher Empowerment

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SahabatAir Project

Bringing water education to schools

SahabatAir Project (Project Friends of Water) is a water education program for junior high schools. This program is bundled with provision of rain water harvesting facilities that will allow beneficiaries to get access to clean water whilst getting the awareness about the importance of conserving water.

• Years: 2015-now
• Donor: Levi Strauss Indonesia, Korea Green Foundation
• Locations: Jakarta and Cipanas, West Java
• Focus: Community Learning

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Plastic Reborn

Pushing forward circular economy

We co-initiate Plastic Reborn as a platform to speak out about circular economy. During the first phase, the program focuses on promoting recycling plastic (post-consumption packaging) through a fun and engaging ways. This is to create a more informed population on the importance of leading a “recycling conscious” behavior, mobilize individual ownership toward recycling and transform recycling into a daily social norm.

In the second phase of the program, we engage, nurture, and advance enterprises, creating a more robust and sustainable national circular economy ecosystem.

• Years: 2016-now
• Donor: Coca-Cola Foundation Indonesia
• Locations: Jakarta and Bekasi
• Focus: Community Learning

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