First year STPDN students to be moved to IIP Jakarta
First year STPDN students to be moved to IIP Jakarta
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung
The Ministry of Home Affairs will start to transfer by
Saturday some 1,200 first-year students of the Institute of
Public Administration (STPDN) to the Institute of Public
Administration Sciences (IIP).
The decision was executed in order to sever the tradition of
campus violence at the STPDN, which cultivates students into
future bureaucrats.
The students are to be moved on Saturday by bus from the STPDN
campus in Jatinangor, West Java, to Cilandak, South Jakarta,
where the IIP campus is located, said STPDN director I Nyoman
Sumaryadi.
Sumaryadi said the new IIP students would receive an official
welcome by home minister Hari Sabarno in a ceremony next Monday.
"Based on studies, moving a generation of students from
Jatinangor is one of the measures that can get rid of the culture
of violence at the STPDN," he told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
Violence at the STPDN came into the spotlight after the death
of Wahyu Hidayat on Sept. 2, 2003. Wahyu, a second-year student
at STPDN died after a severe beating by his seniors.
His death revealed the culture of violence at the institute,
which caused a public outcry, and the public demanded a thorough
change in the educational environment at the school.
Sumaryadi said the decision to move the students was based on
a study conducted by the home ministry, supervised by secretary-
general Siti Nurbaya and IIP rector Prof. Ngadisah.
Once the first-year students were admitted to the IIP, they
would be provided educational models far different from their
seniors at the STPDN.
At the IIP, the militaristic educational system and tradition
of hazing would be scrapped. Classes would focus on acquiring
knowledge, for example, through book reviews, discussions and
presentations.
The remaining 3,000 second- to fourth-year students at the
Jatinangor campus would also be provided a change in educational
models at their school. -- JP