Outbound scholar flows from Indonesia are rising, nonetheless they’re nonetheless comparatively modest. No matter being the world’s fourth-largest nation via inhabitants, Indonesia was solely the twenty second-largest sender of worldwide faculty faculty college students worldwide in 2017, making up decrease than 1 p.c of the higher than 5 million faculty faculty college students finding out overseas that yr. Based mostly on UIS information, the variety of Indonesian diploma-looking for college faculty college students enrolled overseas has grown by just about sixty two p.c since 1998, reaching a excessive of 47,317 in 2016. This progress made Indonesia the third-largest sender of worldwide faculty faculty college students amongst ASEAN member states in 2017, behind solely Vietnam and Malaysia .