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Former UGM rector, Press Council chair Ichlasul Amal dies at 82
His body was taken to the university’s Balairung Hall in Yogyakarta on Thursday afternoon for mourners to pay their last respects before he was laid to rest at the Sawitsari cemetery in the city on the same day.
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Former Gadjah Mada University rector and Press Council chairman Ichlasul Amal. (Courtesy of Gadjah Mada University/-)
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chlasul Amal, former rector of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta and former Press Council chair, passed away in Jakarta early on Thursday morning. He was 82.
He died at 2:40 a.m. at Pondok Indah Hospital (RSPI) in South Jakarta, according to Mohtar Mas’oed, international relations professor at UGM’s School of Social and Political Sciences, as quoted in a statement issued by the university on Thursday.
His body was taken to the university’s Balairung Hall in Yogyakarta on Thursday afternoon for mourners to pay their last respects before he was laid to rest at the Sawitsari cemetery in the city on the same day.
He is survived by his wife Ery Hariati and two children.
Born in Jember, East Java, in 1942, Ichlasul graduated from UGM in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. He got his master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from, respectively, Northern Illinois University in the United States in 1974 and Monash University in Australia in 1984.
Spending most of his time as an international relations lecturer at UGM, Ichlasul was appointed the dean of the university’s School of Social and Political Sciences from 1988 to 1994. He was later elected UGM rector in 1998 and held the position until 2002.
When university students nationwide protested against the rule of New Order authoritarian leader Soeharto in 1998, Ichlasul allowed UGM students to hold a rally on the campus in Yogyakarta and supported the students’ demands for Soeharto’s resignation amid the economic crisis hitting the country and rampant corruption.
