One Year of Danantara Indonesia TRUST: From Commitment to Action
As it enters its second year, Danantara Indonesia TRUST is expanding collaboration in education, health, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The move reflects the foundation’s overarching theme, ‘From Commitment to Action’.
Through this approach, DANANTARA INDONESIA TRUST is building a catalytic philanthropy ecosystem that brings together resources, expertise and partnerships to drive broader, more sustainable impact.
Danantara Indonesia TRUST’s trustee and Danantara Indonesia CEO, Rosan Roeslani, said the organisation manages state assets to create long-term value. Some of that value is dedicated to social impact through the foundation.
“Each programme is an investment in the foundations of the nation’s competitiveness: an educated younger generation, health workers reaching the areas most in need, and families with access to clean water and adequate sanitation,” Rosan said in a written statement on Thursday (15 October 2026).
He stressed that social programmes are managed with the same discipline as investments: they must be targeted, measurable and underpinned by good governance.
Danantara TRUST’s three strategic programmes are Asa Nusantara, Air Setara and Bakti Sehat Nusantara. They have been developed in partnership with universities, development organisations and the government to address challenges in education, WASH and health.
The first, Asa Nusantara, provides scholarships to 800 undergraduate and vocational students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) or health sciences. Running until 2030, the programme involves Andalas University, the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University and Hasanuddin University.
The scholarships prioritise students from low-income families, disadvantaged, frontier and outermost regions (3T), people with disabilities, and first-generation university students.
Alongside tuition and living-cost support, the programme includes capacity-building assistance for scholarship recipients. The commitment is planned to run for four years, until 2030.
The second programme, Air Setara, focuses on WASH and is being implemented with Plan Indonesia. It is designed to reach 156 villages in Timor Tengah Selatan, Manggarai and Belu regencies in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
The climate-resilient programme aims to benefit around 230,000 people. This includes 60,000 households, 86,700 pupils at hundreds of schools, and 79 health facilities.
Danantara TRUST has also received funding support from Plan International and four years of health and nutrition support from Vitamin Angels.
The third programme, Bakti Sehat Nusantara, is being run in partnership with the Ministry of Health. It focuses on strengthening the availability and capabilities of health workers in priority areas.
In its initial phase, education costs are being covered for 1,343 medical and health workers. They are expected to be deployed across 70 community health centres (puskesmas), 131 regional hospitals and 25 vertical hospitals.
Danantara Indonesia TRUST Foundation chair Nuraini Razak added that the focus in its second year is to strengthen what has already been built through catalytic partnerships that connect different resources and expertise.
“We want to ensure that collaboration does not stop at a single programme, but also creates opportunities for broader and more sustainable impact,” Nuraini said.
Going forward, DANANTARA INDONESIA TRUST will strengthen its role as a catalytic philanthropy platform bringing together the government, philanthropies, development partners, the private sector, civil society and educational institutions. Through this approach, philanthropic resources will be directed towards solutions that can be replicated, scaled up and deliver lasting benefits to the public.