LG Electronics help 200 needy students

LG Electronics help 200 needy students

YOGYAKARTA: Giant electronics manufacturer PT LG Electronics Indonesia (LGEIN) has distributed scholarships to 200 students of 50 Junior High Schools across Yogyakarta province, each of whom will receive a yearly scholarship of Rp 830,000.

The company's human resource department director Herman Surjadi who handed over the scholarships to the children here earlier this week, said the funds would be directly transferred to the students' bank accounts every three months.

The scholarship is the second after the same scholarship was distributed last year to 100 junior high school students of economically disadvantaged families. It is provided to help the government achieve its goal of nine years of compulsory education.

"There are children who cannot continue their studies after elementary school due to their poor economic condition," said Herman, adding that the LG scholarships for junior high school students have only been given here in Yogyakarta province so far.

But the company, he said, had also been distributing scholarships to university students in Bandung (West Java), Surabaya (East Java), Semarang (Central Java), Malang (East Java), and Salatiga (Central Java) in the last three years.

"We select 10 university students a year to receive the scholarship. They are students of the school of technical engineering and can be directly recruited to work at our company upon graduation," Herman added. --JP