INSPIRASI Indonesia Young Leaders Programme 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 25, 2026

Applications are open for the INSPIRASI Indonesia Young Leaders Programme 2026. INSPIRASI is a capability constructing programme for rising younger civil society leaders from East Indonesia. Each yr, ten members are chosen to additional develop their information, abilities and confidence to allow them to improve their contribution to the sustainable growth of their neighborhood and the broader East Indonesia area.

The programme presents younger leaders the OPPORTUNITY to discover new concepts and approaches to sustainable growth each in East Indonesia and New Zealand, inspiring them to suppose creatively in regards to the challenges in their very own communities. Participants observe a bunch programme and work collectively on an inclusive, cross-ethnic and cross-non secular foundation. Each younger chief will discover a selected growth problem affecting their neighborhood, develop and refine a analysis query on this subject, and put together a proposal for a participatory motion venture to handle the problem.

Funding

• INSPIRASI is funded by the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of its International Development Cooperation programme in Indonesia.  The programme is managed and run by UnionAID in collaboration with Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia (BaKTI) and Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• be aged 20-30 years be residing and dealing in East Indonesia (East and West Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and North Maluku, all Papua provinces and all Sulawesi provinces)
• be working for a neighborhood-primarily based organisation or NGO equivalent to a girls’s organisation, labour union or environmental group
• intend to proceed working for his or her organisation for at least one yr after finishing the programme
• have assist to take part within the programme from the organisation they symbolize or work for, together with flexibility to attend on-line study periods throughout workplace hours
• have English language proficiency equal to ≥4.5 IELTS or > TOEFL 32-34 (take a look at certificates not required)
• be obtainable to take part in a full-time residential of two weeks from 2-12 June
• not be enrolled in another full-time programs of study or the same scholarship/fellowship throughout the SDC
• discuss to UnionAID earlier than enrolling in another part-time programs throughout the SDC
• maintain, or have the ability to acquire, a passport issued by the Government of Indonesia legitimate till 1 July 2027

Selection Criteria

In choosing members, the next standards can even be thought of

• demonstrated management and future potential dedication to growth and neighborhood work
• identification of a transparent and related growth problem or space of curiosity that they want to discover by means of the programme
• dedication to working with different ethnic and spiritual teams
• open-mindedness and maturity
• ethnic, religion and gender mixture of the group

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to INSPIRASI Indonesia Young Leaders Programme.