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Luhut to talk about inequality, radicalism at UC Berkeley
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Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Antara Photo/Rosa Panggabean)
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oordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan is slated to talk about growth, inequality and radicalism at the University of California, Berkeley in the US on Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. local time.
The lecture, titled “Growth, Inequality and Radicalism: Indonesia’s Experience, with Luhut Pandjaitan,” is sponsored by the university’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), the university's website says.
The university’s website lists a brief bio on Luhut for the event announcement, which includes his military service from the 1970s, his Golkar Party membership and his stint as the trade and industry minister during the president Abdurrahman Wahid administration. Luhut has a master’s in public administration from George Washington University.
Past speakers from Indonesia sponsored by CSEAS of UC Berkeley include Andreas Harsono from Human Rights Watch Indonesia, who talked about abuses against Indonesia’s religious minorities in 2013; Dr. Fadjar I. Thufail from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), who spoke about the May 1998 riots in Indonesia in 2011; historian Hilmar Farid, now the director general of culture at the Education and Culture Ministry; and lawyer-cum-activist Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, who spoke about 10 years of reform in 2008. (evi)
