Rift in rectorial election continues

Rift in rectorial election continues

BOGOR: Lecturers and other employees at the Bogor Institute of
Agriculture demanded on Wednesday the annulment of the result of
the selection of rectorial candidates by the Academic Senate
Secretariat.

Tutut Sunarminto, an assistant to the dean of the School of
Forestry, said that it should be annulled as it lacked
transparency, and the selection criteria for candidates was not
clear.

Tutut said the rector should be elected by students and
institute employees instead of the Academic Senate Secretariat.

Students and the employees had earlier elected nine rectorial
candidates. The secretariat last week reduced the nine to five
via a secret vote. Among the four losers was Siswadi, who had won
the most ballots in the previous round.

Enraged by the result of the vote, students also condemned the
process as undemocratic.--JP