As a PhD student within this programme, you will work in the Netherlands for a period of thirty-two months. The remainder of sixteen months will be used for doing fieldwork in Indonesia. First, you will create a basis for your research with your Dutch supervisor. After some twelve months, you will do your fieldwork in Indonesia in order to return for another twenty months to finish your thesis.

To be eligible for the Indonesian Young Leaders PhD programme, the candidate must meet the following requirements:

- be an Indonesian national
- have a S2 degree from either a state sponsored or non-state sponsored Islamic Indonesian 
  University
- willing to take part in the programme fulltime for the complete duration of the programme, four years
- have a high level of English proficiency (TOEFL 550)
- be in good health
- not be above the age of 40 years (men) or 45 years (women) on the application deadline