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President to inaugurate Indonesia’s first defense university
The Jakarta Post | Thu, 03/05/2009 8:06 PM | National
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to inaugurate the Defense University of Indonesia, the first of its kind in the country, on March 11, 2009.Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said in Jakarta on Thursday the idea to establish the university was first raised by the defense ministry in January 2007 to meet the urgent need to improve the state's strategic defense capability.
"The institute will transform Indonesia's military and defense education with the long-term objective of developing a modern TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces) military culture," the minister said as quoted by Antara news agency.
Changes of national, regional and global scopes had created new challenges to the country's strategic defense capability, he said.
Citing an example, Sudarsono said Indonesian territorial waters which were being used as maritime routes for 40 percent of the world's trade, needed more than security measures in the traditional sense. They needed a TNI capable of making more modern political, economic, social and cultural approaches, he said.
Therefore, Indonesia was now trying to meet that need by establishing an education institute capable of producing leaders with military and civilian backgrounds who had strategic defense capabilities and competence as well as wide perspectives and the ability to adapt to global conditions, he said.
Meanwhile, Major General Syarifuddin Tippe, the defense ministry's director general of defense strategy, said 47 other countries already had a defense university.
In ASEAN, Singapore had established a defense university in 2005 and Malaysia in 2007.
"In the current era, there is a need for thinkers among military officers, who not only have combat or military operation skills but also have perspectives and master scientific disciplines needed to comprehend the security environment and the rapidly changing world," he said.
The inauguration of Indonesia's Defense University would also be marked by a seminar themed "Indonesia 2025: Geopolitical and Defense Challenges" to be attended also by world-class defense strategy experts.
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Ketti (not verified) — Thu, 03/12/2009 - 10:12am
Great idea! I hope this university will be the qualified one that not only can produce the best quality students or leaders but also bring the better changing to the Indonesia's security in the future.
Yu No (not verified) — Tue, 03/10/2009 - 11:09am
while my guitar gently weeps, KPK still have moral thugs such as chandra hamzah as leader
PT (not verified) — Fri, 03/06/2009 - 5:37am
Great. Teacher's College/IKIP has already become University as well as the Islamic University/IAIN. Now, we have another public university after we had already the Police Academy/PTIK and others