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        "id": 1101634,
        "msgid": "kusmayanto-elected-itb-rector-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-10-30 00:00:00",
        "title": "Kusmayanto elected ITB rector",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Kusmayanto elected ITB rector Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung Newly elected rector of the Bandung Institute of Technology, Kusmayanto Kardiman, has vowed to improve the institute's image and help students who have financial difficulties. \"I will do my best to improve the institute's image both at home and overseas and help students with financial difficulties,\" he told The Jakarta Post here on Monday.",
        "content": "<p>Kusmayanto elected ITB rector<\/p>\n<p>Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected rector of the Bandung Institute of Technology,<br>\nKusmayanto Kardiman, has vowed to improve the institute's image<br>\nand help students who have financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>\"I will do my best to improve the institute's image both at<br>\nhome and overseas and help students with financial difficulties,\"<br>\nhe told The Jakarta Post here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kusmayanto, also a lecturer at the institute's School of<br>\nGeophysics, won 17 votes in an election by the 20-member ITB<br>\nrepresentative assembly at the Ministry of Education in Jakarta<br>\non Monday. Minister of National Education Abdul Malik Fadjar,<br>\nalso a member of the assembly, cast his vote in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The other two candidates, Bana Kartasasmita and Sahari Besari,<br>\nboth also from the institute, won only two votes and one vote<br>\nrespectively.<\/p>\n<p>Kusmayanto, who will be installed on Nov. 10, 2001, said that<br>\nhis first task would be to make sure that learning activities<br>\nwere done in line with the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\"I want both teaching staff and students to stick to the<br>\ncurriculum set for the institute in order to make sure that<br>\nlearning activities on the campus are in line with the<br>\ncurriculum,\" he said, citing the diminishing quality of education<br>\nat the institute over the years had a lot to do with the reality<br>\nthat many lecturers did not stick to the curriculum in their<br>\nteaching.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to comment on students' demand for a reduction in<br>\ntuition fees, Kusmayanto said he was designing several programs<br>\nto help students who found it hard to complete their studies due<br>\nto financial restraints.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are designing a partnership program with the industry and<br>\na foster-parent program with businessmen and officials to help<br>\nfinancially challenged students,\" he said.<\/p>",
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