Amien Rais to get UMY Award

Thu, 10 Oct 2002

YOGYAKARTA: Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) is to present People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Amien Rais with its "2002 UMY Award", for what is said was Amien's role in reforming the Indonesian political system and his central role in amending the 1945 Constitution.

UMY Rector Khoirudin Bashori said Wednesday that the award was the first of what would be an annual award ceremony to honor reform figures.

"Constitutional amendment was considered impossible in the past, but it is now a reality. The successful completion of constitutional amendments, as we see it, cannot be separated from the central role of Pak Amien as the Assembly's speaker," Khoirudin said, adding the decision was made during the university's senate meeting on Sept. 25, 2002.

He said Amien elegantly accommodated the demands of legislators wishing to insert Syariah law in Article 29 of the Constitution and finally left the article unchanged. --JP

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