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    "data": {
        "id": 1821614,
        "msgid": "private-universities-face-closure-threat-as-students-defect-to-state-campuses-1782301991",
        "date": "2026-06-24 17:52:01",
        "title": "Private Universities Face Closure Threat as Students Defect to State Campuses",
        "author": "Erik Purnama Putra",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Education",
        "summary": "The Association of Indonesian Private Universities (Aptisi) warns that many private institutions are at risk of collapse after losing up to 40 per cent of their new students to state universities. The mass exodus occurs when students who have already registered and paid fees at private campuses withdraw after being accepted into state university independent admission pathways. Aptisi has called the phenomenon a widespread fact, not merely an issue, and criticised the extended registration periods of state universities for exacerbating the problem.",
        "content": "<p>The Association of Indonesian Private Universities (Aptisi) has\nrevealed a phenomenon where private higher education institutions (PTS)\nare losing students after they are accepted into state universities\n(PTN). This condition is causing some private universities to be\nvulnerable to closure.<\/p>\n<p>Aptisi Chairman Budi Djatmiko confirmed reports that students who had\nalready registered at private universities are switching to state\ninstitutions. This occurs after they are declared successful in the\nindependent admission pathway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis phenomenon is no longer just an issue, but a fact on the ground\nthat is being massively complained about by our Aptisi members during a\nworking meeting last week in Bandung,\u201d Budi told Republika in Jakarta on\nWednesday (24\/6\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Budi stated that several Aptisi regions have recorded that the\nexpansion of the independent pathway at state universities has caused\nprivate universities to lose 30 to 40 per cent of their prospective new\nstudents. He also highlighted that the status of state universities with\nlegal autonomy (PTN-BH), whose independent pathway quota can reach 50\nper cent, is severely detrimental to private campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany prospective students who have already paid the initial\nregistration fee at a private university end up withdrawing because they\nare accepted midway through the independent pathway at a state\nuniversity, whose registration period often drags on until August or\nSeptember,\u201d Budi said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/private-universities-face-closure-threat-as-students-defect-to-state-campuses-1782301991",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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