Universitas Terbuka Indonesia Open Policy 317as a domestic (informal) worker, living overseas where they unable to be
served by Indonesia higher education to secure their rights to education.
UT’ students living overseas are growing steadily in 30 countries
accounted for 2% of UT’s student body. The distribution of student’s
geographic location is presented in the following figure:
Source: UT Annual Report 2014.
In terms of gender and age UT students are predominantly by female
middle age students. This may reflect current Indonesia demographic
features that the fast growing numbers of women enter into labour
market. These features may also represent UT major student body who
are teachers.