News on TV and online had chairman from PTPTN saying they might not provide loan including living expenses in the future. It's still in discussion stage with the Government (which Ministry?, not very clear in the article) and the PTPTN highlighted many borrowers did not pay their loan, thus it's limiting their ability to provide full loan to future students.
I hope PTPTN will reconsider as students do really need help with living expenses as well so that they can concentrate fully on their studies. Especially nowadays a lot of studying opportunities are away from home and thus living expenses loan is big help. I would hope my children would get loans that includes living expenses as they might study at a place away from home in the future. With inflation shooting up (not creeping, mind ya), we middle-class parents need as much help as possible. After all, we are a sandwich generation that needs to take care of elderly family members and also the children (not one child, typical families have 2 or more children nowadays). It's not only the low-income group that needs help.
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