LONDON, KOMPAS.TV Presiden Prabowo menyampaikan sambutannya di hadapan para petinggi universitas di Inggris pada Selasa (20/1/2026).
Prabowo menyampaikan keyakinannya bahwa pendidikan merupakan kunci keberhasilan suatu bangsa.
Dalam kesempatan itu, Prabowo juga sempat mengundang tawa seluruh ruangan saat mengaku dirinya bukan siswa yang baik.
"Saya harus mengakui bahwa dulu saya bukan siswa yang sangat baik. Saya percaya kejujuran adalah kebijakan terbaik," ujar Prabowo.
Prabowo juga menyampaikan proyek strategisnya untuk membangun 10 universitas baru yang berbasis pendidikan kedokteran hingga STEM.
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00:00The best education that could be attained, that could be achieved, that is my conviction.
00:10Thank you very much, Sir Steve Smith and Mr. Scott MacDonald, for organizing this meeting, this round table.
00:30Is Baroness Smith here?
00:36No, no, okay.
00:36So anyway, distinguished Vice Chancellors from distinguished universities of the United Kingdom,
00:52thank you very much for making time, coming to meet with me.
01:00I have been in many discussions with British leaders, British officials,
01:10and I think some of them have visited me in my farm outside Jakarta.
01:23Today, I just concluded a very productive meeting with the Prime Minister of the UK and the Deputy Prime Minister.
01:35I just had a meeting with the business leaders here.
01:39I am now accompanied by the Coordinary Minister for Economic Affairs, Mr. Air Langa,
01:47Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Professor Brian Yuliarto,
01:54and also Minister of Investment and Head of our Sovereign Wealth Fund, Mr. Rozan Perkasa-Ruslani,
02:08Minister of Forestry, Minister of Forestry, Raja Juli, and Secretary of the Cabinet, Mr. Teddy Indrawijaya,
02:22and, of course, our Ambassador here in the UK, Mr. Desra.
02:30As you know, I am of the conviction that education is the key to a successful nationhood.
02:47To be a successful nation, we must have the best education that could be attained,
03:04that could be achieved.
03:06That is my conviction.
03:07The 21st century is a century of science and technology and to overcome massive poverty and hunger.
03:24I think science, technology, through education, is, in my conviction,
03:38the real instrument of democracy.
03:42To achieve an equitable society, a fair society,
03:50the fastest instrument is education and health services.
03:59And they are all interconnected.
04:02Because to achieve these two, we need the best human resources.
04:15So, ladies and gentlemen, once again, it is a great honour for me
04:20to be able to address so many distinguished Vice-Chancellors.
04:28Are there any journalists around?
04:31I have to admit that I was not a very good student
04:35in my younger days.
04:40I have to admit, I believe honesty is the best policy, right?
04:45I always joke that, you know, Westerners for, can I be very open?
04:59I hope so, yeah?
05:00Yes.
05:01Right?
05:01Westerners are people from Anglo-Saxon background, right?
05:09They really hold several educational institutions in very high regard.
05:16I think, right, for the Anglo-Saxons,
05:19on the UK side is always Oxford and Cambridge, right?
05:25And on the American side, it's always Harvard or MIT.
05:30So, whenever I meet an Englishman or a Britisher,
05:36and I always drop something.
05:43I said, actually, I went to Oxford, actually.
05:48And all the Britishers meeting me, they're so impressed, you know?
05:55This Indonesian president went to Oxford.
05:57And then I said, no, no, I went to the bookstore in Oxford.
06:02But I like that few seconds of, you know?
06:06And you know who I got?
06:09I mean, Sir Tony Blair, you know?
06:13Sir Tony Blair was introducing me to his son.
06:16Oh, yeah, this is my son.
06:18He's an Oxford graduate, et cetera, et cetera.
06:22And so I said, yes, Sir Tony, I went to Oxford myself, actually.
06:26Oh, which college did you go to?
06:27No, no, no, I went to the bookstore.
06:30For the Americans, you know, I also got a very important,
06:36actually, it was, I think it was Bloomberg.
06:41Yeah, yes, this guy, yeah?
06:43Michael Bloomberg.
06:44Came to Indonesia.
06:45I met him, and he was in a very big audience.
06:50And then I also mentioned to him, actually, I went to Harvard.
06:54And he was so, they were all so impressed.
06:56But I went to the bookstore in Harvard, which was honest.
07:00Anyway, so, yes, for me, education is very, very strategic and very important.
07:10I have started, I built, in my first year of administration, 166 boarding schools.
07:20But this is a unique boarding school.
07:23This boarding school is for the very poor.
07:27So in many societies, only the wealthy and upper class go to boarding schools.
07:33I changed this.
07:35In my program now, the children of the very, very poor, we put them into these boarding schools.
07:45I think this is the only way to cut what I call, and what I hear from the experts,
07:57what is called the circle of poverty.
08:02The son of a poor peasant usually becomes another poor peasant.
08:10The son of a maid, a servant, usually becomes another servant, and so forth, and so forth.
08:24I want to cut this, so I am building 500 of these boarding schools.
08:31166 have been built, and are already operating, and I am also building 20 boarding schools
08:44for the highest academic achievers.
08:50So on one side, to cut this circle of poverty,
08:56but on the other side, to recruit the best brains of our young generation
09:02and give them a fast track, so to speak.
09:06I am also going to build, in the next three years,
09:11500 new, what I call, integrated schools.
09:17And these are for those in the middle ground.
09:20Maybe they won't be the top economic achievers,
09:23but they don't come from the very poor, so this is the program I had for me.
09:301,000 schools, new schools, and 10 new universities, 10 new universities.
09:42I am also carrying out a digital, long distance teaching to all the schools of Indonesia.
09:56I have distributed this year, and already in operation,
10:03288,000 interactive flat panels, like smart panels.
10:10The whole syllabus is in the software, it can be accessed very fast,
10:20and we have a central studio, it's not yet in operation,
10:24but we will be, the best teachers will teach.
10:27So all the outlying schools will have access to the best teachers in all the subjects.
10:33This is a way for us to leapfrog, that we are actually way behind in our educational standards.
10:45We acknowledge this.
10:46I am also working with a British foundation, it's called the Billion Foundation,
10:53and they have provided us with a software in Indonesia for the syllabus, for tablets,
11:03and these tablets we are going to distribute to 5 million boys and girls
11:12in the outlying villages that do not have teachers, good teachers.
11:22And apparently this foundation has experienced, by the use of these panels,
11:29the young kids can really improve their literacy and their numeral literacy very fast.
11:40So we are starting maybe the first 500,000 panels, and these panels are not so expensive,
11:50$50 per tablet, so this is the way we are going, renovating all the schools we have.
12:03But one of our strategic projects is the 10 new universities, which we want to be based on medical training for doctors,
12:18training also for education for dentists, we have a very big lack of doctors and dentists.
12:31We have a shortage of 140,000 medical doctors, and we only produce every year around 9,000.
12:42So it will take us, I don't know how many years, and then by the time we reach 140,000, more and more we will retire.
12:51So this is something that we have to do with a strategic plan.
12:58So my plan is to build 10 universities, 10 medical colleges, 10 dentists, dental medicine, pharmacy, and then STEM,
13:14engineering, mathematics, biology, chemistry, et cetera, the basic sciences.
13:25And we are going to build the campuses, and here I think is where we invite cooperation between the top institutions of the world to work with us in cooperation.
13:46I would like these 10 universities to be all English-speaking, so the students, we will recruit the top academic achievers of our schools,
14:05schools, will be selected. They will all be given full scholarship, and they come in for six months, I hope it's enough,
14:22six months of intensive English language, so that they will be able to follow the education in English.
14:32And then we will maybe go and work with the British Council for one of the entrance requirements to have the IELTS standard.
14:47So today what I want to do is I want to use British standards of the highest educational standards from the best universities of the UK.
15:00So I really thank all of you. You made the effort to meet me today. Great honour.
15:08And as I said, I'm sure in my younger days I won't be accepted in any of your universities.
15:23It's a good thing that now I'm president of Indonesia. Otherwise none of you will want to meet me.
15:30Anyway, so I don't know why. Maybe the smartest students, because they are smart, they won't join the army.
15:46So maybe because I was not that smart, I joined the army and they made me a general.
15:52So basically that is the general concept. So I'm thinking of maybe a twinning program or basically, you know,
16:09and there are ten universities. So my thinking is maybe if there are three, four or five UK universities wanting to come in,
16:19yes, we are very willing to work and to receive you. And I'm also talking with some American groups and some German groups.
16:33So that's the general plan. So we will, we will offer, I think, attractive conditions
16:46for, for the lecturers, for the professors, et cetera, et cetera. And each campus will have a teaching hospital.
17:00We are going to build a state of the art international standard teaching hospital for the medical college.
17:08And also basically to provide the best medical service for our people. Because I think the figures are, we spend what?
17:22Six billion dollars a year of Indonesian citizens going abroad for medical treatment.
17:28Yeah, six billion dollars. So Indonesian citizens go to Singapore, Malaysia, Bangkok for medical treatment,
17:42coming to six billion dollars a year. So I'm thinking if we build the best state-of-the-art hospitals,
17:50and we have, we invite eminent professors and clinicians, surgeons to come to Indonesia,
18:06perhaps as visiting professors, maybe come in for one month or two months, teach,
18:14and have surgery, et cetera. And then, so we are very open to this type of thinking.
18:28In my opinion, if we do that, maybe we can save six billion dollars every year,
18:38which money can be channeled into these universities and these hospitals.
18:48So basically, Sir Steve, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, that's the general idea.
18:55So I'm very open to questions about this idea. But this is the plan.
19:03I envision if we start building the campuses middle of this year, I hope end of 27, the campuses will be ready.
19:21So this 18 months or the 20 months we can use in all the preparations.
19:28of finalizing cooperative agreements with institutions, discussions of all the financial requirements,
19:46financial ramifications, and then recruiting, recruiting the professors, the lecturers,
19:55and then us, recruiting and selecting the students. And so if our target is to open by 2028, maybe 2028 for us,
20:13minus six months, we already finished the selection of the students.
20:17the students, they come in for the intensive English course, and by early 2028, we can have the first cohort in Indonesia.
20:29So the plan is to have this enclave of these universities, enclave, and we must secure the quality of life, safety, and security of the whole campus.
20:45of the whole campus to make it attractive for foreign lecturers to work in Indonesia. Basically that's it. So Steve, thank you.
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