IPB selects 41 rector candidates

BOGOR: The Rector Election Committee of the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) has shortlisted 41 people from 176 registered candidates for the rector election.

The Election Committee Chairman Ismudi Muchsin said that the candidates consist of lecturers from the institute and prominent figures from outside the institute.

He said that the next selection will get underway in the first week of October. "First we'll check their administrative requirements and then interview them. Then, we'll select 15 out of the 41 candidates to undergo the next process of the election," he said.

After that, he added, the 15 candidates will be eliminated to nine candidates and then later in November to five candidates.

He said that the IPB's Board of Trustees would elect one of the five candidates to become the new rector of the institute.--JP