The US Scholarship Fundings in Enhancing Sustainable Human Development in Indonesia

This article aims to analyze the recent international issues on how strong is US foreign assistance role in education in worldwide. The role of US scholarship funding in creating sustainable human capability in Indonesia explains the purpose of this analysis. The liberalism perspective is the appropriate approach to explain the object of study. The used method in this paper is qualitative methods in testing the correlated variables. This study will focus on analyzing how the US scholarship affected to improvisation the Indonesian student’s capability and what the outcomes made. The findings of this research show that the US participated in enhancing Indonesia people capability by providing the scholarship, but indirectly, it also means a strategy of US government in keeping American thoughts and interest in Indonesia. As a result, most of American graduated students are working in American companies and institutions, doing business related to American companies, and developing researches funded by US. The originality of this research: investing in education is a best way to improve human capability and to keep American business interests still exist in Indonesia. The more American graduate students the more graduates are working for American companies.