Duolingo English Test Course for Students in Indonesia — Online with Certified Instructors

LPDP and the Duolingo English Test

LPDP announced on 14 July 2026 that the DET joins TOEFL and IELTS as an accepted English certificate for phase-two selection. The published minimums by category:

Rules like this change between selection rounds, so read the current LPDP booklet for your intake before you commit to a test. But the direction is clear: Indonesian scholarship applicants now have one more accepted way to evidence their English.

Where Indonesian students apply — and what score they need

Australia is the classic Indonesian destination, with the UK, the United States, Canada and increasingly the Netherlands and Japan behind it. Australian DET requirements spread wide:

US universities publish a broader ladder:

In the UK, DET is mainstream at universities including York, Sussex, Southampton, Hertfordshire, Sheffield Hallam, Portsmouth and UCLan, typically at 105–125 with subscore rules that often read “overall 120, no subscore below 110” — see our UK score requirements guide.

Canadian minimums cluster tightly at 120, with UBC at 125.

The pattern: bachelor’s admission usually sits at 95–120 and postgraduate programmes at 115–135. Find your programme in Duolingo’s accepting-institutions directory, then confirm with admissions.

Choosing your target score for Indonesian applicants

The DET reports an overall score on the 10–160 scale in steps of five, plus four subscores — Literacy, Comprehension, Conversation and Production. Universities publish a minimum overall score, and many publish a minimum in each subscore too, which is where unprepared candidates are caught: an overall 120 with a Production of 95 fails a requirement that the headline number appears to meet.

Work backwards from the requirements on this page rather than aiming at a round number:

• 95–110 is the usual band for bachelor entry at many US state universities and at a range of Australian institutions.
• 110–125 covers most UK degree courses, where the requirement is often written as “overall 120, no subscore below 110”, and much of the Canadian intake.
• 120–135 is postgraduate and highly selective territory: 120 at Toronto, Waterloo, Queen’s and Ottawa, 125 at UBC and NYU, 130 at Duke, Cornell and Penn, 135 at Columbia.
• If you are applying through LPDP, the scholarship’s own minimums apply on top of the university’s: 95 for affirmative categories, 105–110 for domestic programmes and 120–130 for overseas programmes.

Pick the highest requirement on your shortlist and plan a comfortable margin above it, because subscore floors — not the overall number — are what most often send an application back. Send us your university’s English-requirements page on WhatsApp and we will read it with you before you start.

DET or IELTS from Indonesia?

Once acceptance is settled, the choice comes down to format and to what each exam is valid for.

What IELTS buys you is near-universal acceptance, including visa routes and institutions that decline remotely delivered exams. The DET is accepted at more than 6,000 institutions and now by LPDP, and you may sit up to three certified tests in a 30-day window if you need another run at your target. For most Indonesian applicants to DET-accepting universities, the DET is the efficient first move; IELTS is the fallback when a visa or an institution demands it.

Visa and registration rules to check before you rely on DET

A university accepting your score and an immigration department accepting it are two different questions.

• Australia: universities may accept DET for admission, but the Department of Home Affairs does not accept it for the subclass 500 visa — that needs IELTS, TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic or another listed test.
• United Kingdom: DET is not a UKVI SELT. Degree-level admission is normally assessed by the university itself, but a pre-sessional or below-degree course can need a SELT.
• Canada: the Student Direct Stream ended in November 2024, so the regular study permit applies and your institution decides what English evidence it wants.

Get it in writing from admissions, and see our complete DET guide for score reporting.

Studying online from Indonesia

Studying with an academy in another time zone only works if nothing depends on your being awake at a particular hour. Every Teachero lesson is recorded, and you can review the recording afterwards, so a live session you cannot attend is never a session you lose.

Classes are taught fully in English by certified instructors who specialise in international English exams — the environment the DET asks you to perform in. Speaking and Writing are corrected personally, WhatsApp covers questions between sessions, and you sit full mock tests before the real thing. Arabic-language support is available for Arabic speakers.

Three shapes: the standard course (more days, fewer hours per day), the intensive course (fewer days, more hours per day) and the private tailored course, one-to-one around your weakest questions — see also our online course overview and DET FAQ.

Paying for the course from Indonesia

Your Teachero course is paid by card online (Visa or Mastercard) from any country. Many Indonesian debit cards block foreign-currency transactions until you enable them in the bank app, and the virtual-account or e-wallet methods used for domestic bookings do not work for international card payments.

Other options are available on WhatsApp. Schedules are set per round — message us for the next round’s details.