ITB rector post offered to public

ITB rector post offered to public

BANDUNG (JP): In a bid to implement its newly achieved
autonomy, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) will offer
the position of rector to the general public, an institute
official announced on Tuesday.

ITB rector election committee chairman Hariadi Paminto
Soepangkat said the committee would advertise the vacancy through
several forms of mass media, including at its official website
http://www.pilihrektor.itb.ac.id from Aug. 5.

"A candidate must be an Indonesian citizen, hold a doctoral
degree and be healthy... Military officers, police officers,
chairpersons of political parties, politicians, or conglomerates
are not prohibited from nominating themselves as candidates,"
Hariadi said here.

Interested persons from outside the ITB can submit their names
to the committee on Aug. 10, Hariadi added.

In addition to publicly advertising the post, the committee
will also accept nominations proposed by ITB lecturers, employees
or students, Hariadi said.

He said the initial phase of the election would select 15
eligible candidates, who would then be shortlisted to five for
the second phase. The candidates will then be reduced to three in
the third phase.

"After arriving at three candidates, an election will be held
on Oct. 6," Hariadi said.

He said advertising the rector vacancy was a common practice
of universities in developed countries, such as in the United
States.

"ITB must make itself more open by, among other things,
advertising its rector vacancy, as it may help find a rector who
is capable of laying the foundations to develop ITB as an
autonomous, progressive and prestigious institute," he said. (25)