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The Post wins award for best business reporting
The Jakarta Post | Sat, 11/01/2008 6:53 PM | National
The Jakarta Post daily newspaper has won an award from University of Indonesia’s Economic Faculty for the quality of its business reporting and news impact.
The award was given by faculty dean Bambang Brodjonegoro to the Post’s managing editor Riyadi Suparno in a ceremony at the university’s main campus in Depok on Saturday.
“The Jakarta Post is chosen for its quality and its high news impact. The stories are concise, exact and explicatory,” said one of the judges, Mirza Adityaswara of Credit Suisse, who is also a faculty alumnus.
Besides the Post other media awarded with best business reporting include Tempo for general magazine category, Neraca for business newspaper category and Investor for business magazine category.
The faculty also awarded its alumni for outstanding achievements. The most prestigious award, the Wirakarya Adhitama, was awarded to Widjojo Nitisastro for his lifetime dedication and extraordinary achievements.
Back in the birth of the New Order era in the sixties, Widjojo was one of a group of young economists assign by then president Soeharto to come up with economic policy recommendations. The group of economists later dubbed as the Berkely Mafia.
The faculty also awarded its alumni, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, for her achievement as an economic policy maker. Mulyani currently chairs as both acting coordinating minister for the economy and finance minister.
Just recently Mulyani won the Bung Hatta Anti-Corruption Award for her efforts in laying the ground work for bureaucracy reform within the finance ministry and the tax and customs office.
An award for alumni with extraordinary achievement as a businessman was given to Sofyan Wanandi. Sofyan currently manages his business conglomeration, the Gemala Group, and also chairs the Indonesian Employers Association.
Other faculty alumni that received awards were Arwin Rasyid of Bank CIMB Niaga for the economic professional category, Dhoho Ali Sastro for his social activism and Andrea Hirata for his contribution in arts and culture. Andrea is the author of Laskar Pelangi, a novel which recently adapted into a block buster movie with the same title. (and)
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