Cacuk elected new chairman of ITB alumni

Cacuk elected new chairman of ITB alumni

BANDUNG (JP): Cacuk Sudarijanto was elected the new chairman
of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) alumni association
yesterday, replacing Giri Suseno.

Of the 1,264 ballots, Cacuk, former general manager of state-
owned telecommunications company PT Telkom, won 583 votes. He
beat his closest rival Meilono Siswondo, president of
construction company PT Bangun Cipta Sarana, who collected 314
votes.

The election, presided over by ITB's leading figures Soedjana
Sapi'ie and Arifin Panigoro, concluded the association's fifth
congress opened by President Soeharto in Jakarta Tuesday.

ITB is one of the leading suppliers of the country's
technocrats. Eleven of the 40 members of the present cabinet
graduated from the institute.

Other candidates were noted businessman Fadel Muhammad, the
Jakarta Stock Exchange director Darwin Cyril Noerhadi and
president of state-owned telecommunications company PT Indosat
Tjahjono Soerjodibroto.

A director at the Technology Assessment and Application Agency
(BPPT), Prasetyo Sunaryo, was originally listed among the
candidates, but withdrew at the last minute.

Cacuk, a 1973 graduate from the school of mining engineering,
said in a post-election conference that he planned to establish a
network among the institute's alumni, with other universities,
non-governmental organizations, the public and the government.

He expressed his guarded optimism that he could carry out the
job, with the cooperation of other alumni.

"If we are open to other academicians from different
disciplines, for example economics, the ITB alumni will not only
have the expertise to produce goods, but also the skills to sell
them," Cacuk said.

Cacuk added that he needed at least one month to draw up his
programs in detail.

"I will need at least a month to formulate the programs," he
said. (10)