I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Bristol, UK. I am currently working on my dissertation discussing the 'Decolonizing English in Indonesian EMI' context, particularly in nursing. 

Previously, I worked as an English lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, where I observed how the faculty recruited students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. These students were placed in dormitories and provided with a loan scheme that allowed them to pay their tuition after graduation by working under a service bond. Recently, the faculty opened an international class with a repayment scheme linked to employment in overseas hospitals.

Most of these students come from rural areas, have limited English proficiency, and receive little institutional support. Both lecturers and students are left to navigate the demands of English Medium Instruction on their own. My research aims to understand the underlying agenda behind this internationalization program and to examine how it can be improved critically.

While the program is widely perceived as an initiative that empowers underprivileged and rural students, a critical lens—particularly through the framework of decolonizing English in English Medium Instruction (EMI) and Fraser’s theory of social justice—raises questions about whether such programs genuinely promote equity or inadvertently reproduce neoliberal and colonial logics within higher education.