ITB encourages swimming

ITB encourages swimming

BANDUNG, West Java: If rector Wiranto Arismundandar's dream
comes true, the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
may be turned into the Bandung "swimming institute."

Wiranto wants all ITB students and anyone working at the
institute, without exception, to be able to swim, because sea
constitutes 70 percent of Indonesia's territory.

To drown is embarrassing for people from a maritime country
like Indonesia, he said.

"Not only that, we also have to master maritime science and
technology," he told 1,400 new ITB graduates of masters and
doctoral programs.

Wiranto was obviously serious about implementing his idea. The
state institute has been building an Olympic size swimming pool
and establishing a sports research and development center, Antara
reported. (imn)