Sujudi gets honoris causa

JAKARTA: Minister of Health Sujudi has received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Monash University, Australia for his outstanding service to the science of microbiology and education when he was rector of the Indonesian University, the Antara news agency reported.

Sujudi, who graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Indonesia in 1959, took his doctorate degree in microbiology at the same institution in 1972.

His thesis was entitled "Efforts to Differentiate and Identify Various Types of Norcadia Species". (prs)