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View all search resultsOfficials’ “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 granting of the honorary four-star general rank to Prabowo, who looks certain to succeed Jokowi in October following the Feb. 14 election, contradicts relevant regulations and human rights principles.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo granted Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto the rank of honorary four-star general on Wednesday, the highest in the Indonesian Military (TNI), as civil society groups lamented the official rehabilitation of the former military man with a checkered human rights record.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the University of Portsmouth said the honorary doctor's degree was given in recognition of her work on women's empowerment and gender equality in the past two decades.
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