Wellington College Opens Its First Indonesia Campus in BSD City

Wellington College Independent School Jakarta has opened its doors in BSD City, a mixed-use township on the south-western fringe of Greater Jakarta, welcoming its first cohort of founding families to a new 13,000-square-metre campus this month. According to NOW! Jakarta, the school marks the most significant global expansion in Wellington College's 170-year history.

The school is run by Wellington College Education Singapore Group, a holding company controlled by Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim, which already operates Wellington College campuses across China. For the 2026-2027 academic year, the Jakarta campus is taking in pupils from Nursery through Year 3 (ages 3 to 7), with a founding intake of around 350 students. It plans to add a year group annually, with a full K-12 programme on a larger site within BSD City targeted for 2030, at which point a separate Senior School catering to Years 8 through 13 would open alongside it.

Curriculum and fees

Pupils at Wellington College Independent School Jakarta will follow the English National Curriculum alongside Indonesia's Ministry of Education standards, with the Early Years Foundation Stage underpinning the youngest year groups. Annual fees for the 2026-2027 year run from IDR 198 million to IDR 546 million, broadly equivalent to USD 12,000 to USD 33,000, placing the school at the mid-to-upper tier of Jakarta's international market but below some of the city's most established international names.

Melissa Meyers, who previously held senior leadership roles across Wellington's school network in China, has been appointed Founding Head of School. The campus has been designed with early-years learning in mind, with flexible, light-filled classrooms and indoor-outdoor spaces giving young pupils a direct connection to natural environments.

A broader Southeast Asian push

Jakarta is the first step in a wider regional expansion for the group. Forbes reported last November that Wellington College Education Singapore Group plans to open a junior school in Singapore in 2028 and a flagship K-12 school with boarding facilities in Johor, southern Malaysia, by 2030. Together, the three campuses are intended to give Wellington a connected network spanning the most economically active corridor of Southeast Asia.

BSD City, developed by Sinar Mas Land, has become one of Greater Jakarta's fastest-growing residential and commercial hubs and already hosts a cluster of established international schools. Wellington College's arrival signals continued confidence in Indonesia's appetite for British-branded schooling among the city's professional and expatriate families, and introduces one of the world's most recognisable British independent school names to a market that has so far been dominated by American-curriculum and IB-aligned providers.