Big Dreams to Pursue Higher Education
Education is the most important factor in life. Although the cost of higher education is getting more expensive. For the sake of sending their children to school, parents will fight for everything.
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Participants of the 2022 state higher education entrance examination at Jenderal Sudirman University, Purwokerto, Banyumas, Central Java, Tuesday (17/5/2022). A total of 16,651 participants took this exam.
One day in 2015, Rosmadiana Sidabutar (50) was forced to borrow money from a neighbor to pay for transportation of her son, who was going to take a scholarship test at the Pelita Harapan University. Ros, Rosmadiana's nickname, only had Rp 15,000 (US$1) in cash when Basten, her first child, asked for Rp 50,000 for transportation costs to take part in the test in Karawaci, Tangerang.
On the one hand, Ros was happy because the door to higher education had finally opened for her son, who was in Grade X at that time. However, on the other hand, she was sad because she was not able to give the money her son asked for.