Tue, 28 Dec 2004

Seminar to discuss antigraft education

YOGYAKARTA: An interfaith coalition of religious-based universities said it will hold a seminar here on Tuesday to discuss war on corruption through educational courses.

The forum will specifically discuss an anticorruption education program for university students, which has been designed by the coalition.

Muhammadiyah chairman Ahmad Syafii Maarif, People's Consultative Assembly speaker Hidayat Nurwahid and Minister of Religious Affairs M. Maftuh Basyuni are scheduled to address the one-day seminar.

Other speakers include Frans Magnis Suseno, Emanuel Gerrit Singgih and Johar M.S.

The coalition's program manager for anticorruption education, Isnaini Muallidin, said his side considers that antigraft education is urgent to encourage people to say "No" to corruption.

The coalition plans to educate people so as to avoid or fight corruption through formal courses and religious sermons in houses of worship, he added. --JP