UI promotes new professor

UI promotes new professor

H. Loebby Loqman is scheduled to be promoted to the rank of
professor at the College of Law of the University of Indonesia
today.

The promotion ceremony will be held at the university's campus
in Depok, where Loqman will deliver a speech entitled Presumption
of Innocence in Mass Media Reporting.

Loebby Loqman was born in Surabaya on Oct. 14, 1935. He
finished his elementary and junior high school education in
Surabaya before moving to Jakarta to continue his education at a
senior high school.

In 1967 he graduated from the College of Law of the University
of Indonesia. He earned a postgraduate degree in 1984 and his
doctorate degree in 1990 after defending a dissertation entitled
The Analysis of Law and Legislation of Crime towards National
Security in Indonesia.

Loebby and his wife Timoe have six children. He is one of the
14 professors to be named by the University of Indonesia up to
now. (22)