132 students get scholarship

132 students get scholarship

JAKARTA (JP): Scholarships worth Rp 6,465,000 were awarded to
132 students from low-income families yesterday by the Indonesian
Moslem Intellectuals Association's (ICMI) Jakarta branch and the
Ministry of Education and Culture.

An ICMI Jakarta branch official, Diding Zainuddin, said the
students who won the scholarships were also selected for their
good conduct.

"The reasons for presenting the scholarship to the students
are not based on their personal talents or intellectual
abilities," he stressed. "Scholarship grants for outstanding
students have often been provided by other institutions."

Besides giving scholarships, ICMI was also offering moral
guidance and advice to the students and their parents, Diding
said.

"So we hope that they will not only stand out from their peers
in terms of intelligence in pursuing their studies at school;
they will also become individuals of good character and a high
degree of morality and integrity," Diding said. (bas)