Jakarta – LSPR Communication and Business Institute provides scholarships for Indonesian athletes who advance to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics or Tokyo Olympic 2020. Indonesian sports patriots have made this country proud with various extraordinary achievements obtained during the Olympics.

How can anyone not be proud, in this long-awaited prestigious match, Indonesia has successfully managed to bring home various medals. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which is currently being held from 23 July until 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, will be attended by 200 participating countries. Indonesia sent 28 sport athletes from badminton, athletics, archery, shooting, rowing, surfing, weightlifting, and swimming.

LSPR Communication and Business Institute, as a form of concern and pride for Indonesian sports patriots, has collaborated with the Central Indonesian Sports National Committee (KONI) in January 2020.

Communication skills are the main skill-set that will be given to these proud Indonesian sports patriots. This training scholarship in the field of communication was officially recorded on 27 January 2020 through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the LSPR Institute and the Central KONI at Prof. Dr. Djajusman Auditorium & Performance Hall, LSPR Jakarta.

LSPR provides support for Undergraduate (S1) and Postgraduate (S2) scholarships through Distance Education for 75 outstanding athletes in the international scene, making it more flexible to adapt to the density of the athletes’ activities, especially during National Training (Pelatnas).

As previously stated by Prita Kemal Gani, MBA, MCIPR as Founder and CEO of the LSPR Institute, this scholarship program is given to improve the quality of education and academic potential of Indonesian athletes. “Through this scholarship, it is hoped that it can also support the careers of Indonesian athletes in the future, after going through their golden period,” said Prita.

“It cannot be denied that there are some outstanding athletes whose retirement period does not receive enough attention and is less prosperous. Therefore, Central KONI wants to support these outstanding Sports Patriot Athletes with a high quality education so that their career choices in retirement will be better,” said General Chairman of Central KONI, Lt. Gen. TNI (Ret.) Marciano Norman.

Meanwhile, the Rector of the LSPR Institute, Dr. Andre Ikhsano said, “LSPR is very happy to be able to provide academic contributions to proud Indonesian athletes, hopefully with the support of this scholarship it can complement the achievements of Indonesian athletes not only in the field of sports, but also in the field of education”.

Some proud Indonesian athletes who have started running the scholarship program from LSPR since March 2020 and September 2020 are:

  1. Prada Hanan Farmadini – Marketing Communication (Swimming Branch)
  2. Pancar Nur Widiastono – Marketing Communication (Football Branch)
  3. Khairul Imam Zakiri – Marketing Communication (Football Branch)
  4. Farrel Armandio Tangkas – Marketing Communication (Swimming Branch)
  5. Herlina Gitaningsih – Public Relations (Judo Branch)
  6. Dennish Diaz Himawan – Public Relations (Soccer Branch)
  7. Raihan Abdul Hakim Hadi Rizki – Marketing Communication (Football Branch)
  8. Aulia Risma Widyaningsih – Public Relations (Tennis Branch)
  9. Mahir Radja Satya Djamaoeddin – Public Relations (Football Branch)
  10. Mohammad Afganiladin – Marketing Communication (Football Branch)