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View all search resultsThe contributions of the local people who worked behind the scenes, serving as secretaries, interpreters and guides, are frequently a mere footnote in the works of the Western researchers they assisted, or are missing altogether from historical records.
Officials’ “unnecessary demand” for academic titles might be related to the country’s Dutch colonial past, during which degrees were seen as a way to heighten one’s social status, said Arief Anshory Yusuf, head of Padjadjaran University’s council of professors.
The University of Indonesia’s board of professors has formed a team to investigate the controversial awarding of a doctorate by the university’s School of Global and Strategic Studies to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadia, given the inordinately short length of time he took to graduate.
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