Pegadaian Sends Employees for Master's Studies Abroad

PT Pegadaian has sent seven of its best employees to pursue Master’s degrees (S2) at various leading universities worldwide. This study programme is part of the Pegadaian Global Education & Mastery Scholarship, which serves as a human capital investment.

Pegadaian is providing full scholarships to selected internal talents (Insan Pegadaian) to acquire knowledge and bring back global-scale business best practices. The Human Capital Director of PT Pegadaian (Persero), Tribuana Tunggadewi, emphasised that this programme is a strategic step for the company to cultivate future leaders.

International academic experience is expected to broaden perspectives, enrich knowledge, and stimulate significant innovation to support Pegadaian’s increasingly dynamic and complex business transformation in the future.

“The Pegadaian Global Education & Mastery Scholarship is a manifestation of the company’s commitment to building future leaders who are globally minded, innovative, and adaptive to change. We believe that investing in human capital is a long-term investment that will produce superior talents, bring home the world’s best business practices, enrich organisational perspectives, and accelerate Pegadaian’s transformation to continue growing, remaining competitive, and further ‘MengEMASkan’ (enriching) Indonesia,” added Dewi in a written statement on Tuesday (30/06/2026).

This send-off marks the beginning of the 2026 Batch IV Internal Overseas Master’s Scholarship Programme. The farewell ceremony for the scholarship awardees was held at Pegadaian Tower, Jakarta, on Friday (26/06).

The seven representatives of Insan Pegadaian sent in Batch IV come from various strategic divisions and regional work units, with study focuses aligned with the company’s business development needs, ranging from financial law, information technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to environmental management.

The seven employees have been accepted into various leading universities, including Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, as well as the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne in Australia.

All awardees underwent a very strict, transparent, and comprehensive selection process lasting nearly a year, from April 2025 to March 2026. The selection stages included administrative screening and performance track record reviews, international standardised foreign language proficiency tests, ethics tests, and self-potential assessments, as well as in-depth interviews directly with the Board of Directors of Pegadaian, alongside obtaining official Letters of Acceptance from their target overseas universities.

This lengthy screening process was intentionally implemented to ensure that the selected candidates are not only academically superior but also possess high integrity and the mental readiness to serve as positive representatives of the company within the international academic environment.

The departure of the participants to their respective study destinations will take place gradually between July and September 2026, in accordance with the academic calendars of the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College London.

Through this global higher education, Pegadaian is optimistic about strengthening corporate competitiveness at both national and global levels, which will ultimately provide sustainable contributions to the company and the nation. Alongside Danantara, Pegadaian is always present to serve wholeheartedly to ‘MengEMASkan’ Indonesia.