UI to promote new professor

The School of Law of the University of Indonesia will promote R.M. Girindro to the rank of professor on Nov. 11.

The promotion ceremony will be held at the university's campus in Depok, where Girindro will deliver a speech titled The hierarchy of law and policies in the context of the development of the Indonesian public administration.

Girindro was born in Jakarta on Nov. 16, 1938. He finished his elementary, junior and senior high school education in Jakarta. In 1964 he graduated from the College of Law of the University of Indonesia. He studied public administration at the Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, in 1966.

His career ranges from academic postings at his almamater to diplomatic assignments in the Department of Foreign Affairs as the educational and cultural attache in Bangkok, Thailand, and Bonn, Germany, from 1984 to 1992.

Girindo is active in many organizations, one of which is the American Association of School Administrators where he is an honorary member. He also holds the post of vice president of the ASEAN law schools' association.

He and his wife Sitti Fatiah have three children and four grandchildren. He is one of 17 professors named by the University of Indonesia up to this time. (22)