UGM mulls title for Iliescu

UGM mulls title for Iliescu

YOGYAKARTA: Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Rector Sofian Effendi
said on Wednesday the university was considering awarding
Romanian President Ion Iliescu an honorary doctorate.

He said the university's Professorial Council had formed a
team to gather the necessary information on Iliescu needed to
grant the president a recipient of the academic title.

Iliescu visited the university as part of his trip to the
sultanate town. He also visited Prambanan temple, some 20
kilometers east of here.

Sofian said the university had received a call from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking about the possibility of
awarding Iliescu an honorary doctorate in culture and humanities.

"I hope to relay the decision of the council to Your
Excellency in time," Sofian said in his welcome remarks.

During his visit to the university campus, Iliescu handed over
some 20 books on reform and globalization, national integration,
and poverty elimination that he wrote.

President Iliescu had lunch at Yogyakarta Palace with Sultan
Hamengkubuwono X and visited Borobudur temple in the Central Java
town of Magelang before flying to Bali through Adi Sumarmo
Airport in Surakarta. -- JP