University of Indonesia
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| Established | February 2, 1950 |
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| Type | State University |
| Rector | Prof.Dr.Usman Chatib Warsa |
| Staff | 1982 (Full-Time Staff on 2005/2006 Fiscal Year) |
| Students | 11,011 students (2005/2006) |
| Location | Depok and Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Campus | Both urban and rural (Total Area 3,152,713 m²) With 3 areas: Depok, Salemba, PGT-17 |
| Colors | Yellow |
| Website | www.ui.ac.id |
The University of Indonesia (Universitas Indonesia/UI in Indonesian) is an Indonesian university located in and around the capital of Jakarta. The yellow jacket is worn by UI students.
UI is also one of the leader of student movement in important points of Indonesian history, notably the Indonesian Reforms Movement of 1998 and Indonesian Revolution of 1966.[citation needed]
[edit] Institution
As one of the oldest universities in Indonesia, the University of Indonesia (UI) prides itself on its reputation that is well established within its 12 faculties (also one in polytechnics which later separated to become Jakarta State Polytechnic/PNJ) and graduate school. The university offers a superior standard of tertiary education in many fields of specialisation and is well-known for producing graduates who have gone on to become exteremely successful and influential people in the country’s history. Since its establishment in 1950, UI has continued to grow and develop. Today, UI remains a dynamic centre of excellence for research and learning, attracting more than 30,000 Indonesian and international students. Only the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) exceeds UI in prestige as an institute of higher learning in Indonesia (Cardiyan HIS, 1991).
As part of the international community, UI has actively co-operated with other international universities and instititutions in the areas of teaching, research, consultation and student and staff exchange. It also has strong links and connections with international embassies and industry.
[edit] History
After the proclamation of independence on the August 17th, 1945, the Indonesian government has realized that education is of utmost important for progress so that a few days afterwards The Republic of Indonesia Institute for Higher Education (BPTRI) was established in Jakarta consisting of the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, Letters and Law, which had its first graduation of 90 medical doctors the same year. When the Dutch colonial army occupied Jakarta at the end of 1945, the BPTRI moved to Klaten, Surakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Malang. Meanwhile, the Dutch colonial government, which by 1946 had occupied the big cities and surrounding areas in Indonesia, established a Nood Universiteit or "Emergency University" at Jakarta in 1946. In 1947 the name was changed into "Universitaet van Indonesie" (UVI) or "University of Indonesia" After the end of Indonesian war of independence, when Jakarta became once again the capital of Indonesia, the government established a state university in Jakarta in February 1950 called, Universitaet Indonesia, comprising of units of the BPTRI and UVI. The name Universitaet Indonesia was later changed into Universitas Indonesia (UI).
In 1950, UI was a multi campus university with faculties in Jakarta (Medicine, Law, and Letters), Bogor (Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine), Bandung (Engineering, Mathematics and Natural Sciences), Surabaya (Medicine and Dentistry), and Makassar (Economics). In 1954, the Surabaya campus became Universitas Airlangga; in 1955 the Ujung Pandang campus became Universitas Hasanuddin; in 1959 the Bandung campus became Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB or Bandung Institute of Technology), while the School for Physical Education, which was also located in Bandung, became part of Padjajaran University, in 1960. In 1964, the Bogor campus became Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and the Faculty of Education (FKIP) at Jakarta, became IKIP Jakarta. In a sense UI was the mother of several universities. In 1965, UI consisted of three campuses all in Jakarta, i.e. the Salemba Campus (Medicine, Dentistry, Economics, Engineering, Science and the Graduate School), the Rawamangun Campus (Letters, Law, Social Science and Psychology) and the Pegangsaan Campus (Public Health and parts of Medicine).
[edit] Campus
[edit] Salemba
Salemba Campus, located in Central Jakarta, is dedicated mostly for the faculty of medicine, faculty of denstistry and faculty of nursing. It was built adjoining the Cipto Mangunkusumo National Hospital (RSCM) as well as the University Dental Hospital. It also has some remaining sites of the Faculty of Economics and Engineering.
[edit] Depok
Depok Campus, located in the (no longer an administrative region, but) city of Depok in the south of Jakarta, was built around the mid-1980s to accommodate the modernization of the university — the Salemba Campus which is in the urban area has already been confined to a small place which cannot accommodate further requirements for space. Most of the faculties (mathematics & natural sciences, engineering, psychology, letters, economics, social politics, law) have been relocated here. A plan is also has been made to relocate the undergraduate training of the medical and dental faculties to Depok in 2010.
Currently, Depok Campus is also the base of most student activities, from sports to arts, from English debating to religion, most located on Student's Activity Centre (Pusgiwa). All this organisations along with their fellow at Salemba are part of Student Family Association (IKM) which have Student Executive Body (BEM) as leader and Student Consultative Assembly (MPM) as the highest body that watching the BEM to ensure it performs its function to fulfill the students' aspiration.
[edit] Faculties
The university consists of 12 faculties, spread between the 2 campuses.
[edit] Faculty of Medicine - FK
FK stands for Fakultas Kedokteran. Located at Salemba campus. [1]
[edit] Faculty of Dentistry - FKG
FKG is an acronym for Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi or Faculty of Dentistry and located in Salemba.
The faculty was first developed in 1954 by the Indonesian Dental Association, Professor Ouw Eng Liang and his colleagues. This idea was supported by Rector of the University of Indonesia (Prof. Dr. Sudjono Djuned Pusponegoro) and Dean Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Prof. Dr. Soekarjo), and finally the Indonesian Minister of Education recognized the faculty through his formal letter 108049, dated December 21, 1960. In 1961, the faculty started accepting students. All facilities used were belonged to the Central Public Hospital (known as the Cipto Mangunkusumo National Central General Hospital) and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. During the first years, lectures were done together with the medical faculty.
On March 27, 1965, the faculty opened a dental clinic for public services under the Faculty Foundation. In 1967, it graduated its first 15 dentists, and the alumni organization ,which is known as ILUNI-FKGUI, was established. Until 1986, three main bulidings have been established, located at Jalan Salemba 4, and later on an additional classroom in building D is available for lecture. These buildings has been used for classrooms, auditorium, student activities, administration rooms, lecturer’s rooms, laboratories, cafetaria, musholla, and other facilities. To support the community service education, a dental clinic of Public Health Center located in Serpong, Tangerang was established in collaboration with the university’s rural project.
Postgraduate specialist program in clinical dentistry was started in 1982 and has developed into seven specialties in dentistry, followed by the establishment of Doctorate Program in Dental Science in 1991. The curriculum for undergraduate student was changed in 1996 according to the new paradigm for dental science education, and then recognized Sarjana Kedokteran Gigi, and Dokter Gigi. Students achieved 147 credit points (SKS) entitled to a Bachelor degree (Sarjana Kedokteran Gigi) and eligible to continue their studies by completing another 28 credit points to graduate as dentist (Dokter Gigi). In 1998, the faculty established Master Degree Programs consist of Basic Dental Sciences and Preventive and Community Dentistry as an opportunity for Sarjana Kedokteran Gigi to pursue and continue higher education.
The Dental Clinic has developed into University Dental Hospital (RSGM FKG UI) that officially established in 1996. This hospital is the main focus of the faculty teaching activities as well as dental public services.
The faculty also covers several departments, i.e. Conservative Dentistry, Dental Materials & Technology, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Oral Biology, Oral Medicine, Orthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Dentistry, Preventive & Community Dentistry, Prosthodontics and Periodontics. All these departments reflects the specialty dental services and training provided in the faculty, except Dental Materials and Oral Biology, which scope the basic dental sciences. [2]
[edit] Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - FMIPA
FMIPA is an acronym for Fakultas Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam or Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Located on both Salemba and Depok campus. [3]
[edit] Faculty of Law
Initially, Faculty of Law was a secondary education, specializing in law (Dutch: rechtsschool). It was established by the Dutch colonial government to cater the need of Indonesian clerks within the courts, that were dominated by Dutch judges. In 1924, the rechtsschool was upgraded into tertiary education, known as rechtshogeschool, with two departments: the Law and Social Sciences. The Rechtshogeschool was merged with the medical school (School tot Opleiding van Inlandsche Artsen or Stovia) into Universiteit van Indonesie. In 1955, the name was changed into University of Indonesia (Indonesian: Universitas Indonesia). In 1968, the Social Sciences Department is splitted into a new faculty, named Faculty of Social Sciences.
[edit] Faculty of Psychology - FPsi
FPsi is an acronym for Fakultas Psikologi or Faculty of Psychology; Located at Depok campus. The faculty was establish in 1953 by Prof Dr Slamet iman Santoso, who became the first dean. At the beginning, it was a specialty unit under the faculty of medicine.
[edit] Faculty of Engineering - FT
FT is an acronym for Fakultas Teknik or Faculty of Engineering; Located at Depok campus. [4]
[edit] Faculty of Economics - FE
FE is an acronym for Fakultas Ekonomi or Faculty of Economics; Located at both Salemba and Depok campus. Many Indonesian economics expert came from this faculty [citation needed]. [5]
[edit] Faculty of Public Health - FKM
FKM is an acronym for Fakultas Kesehatan Masyrakat or Faculty of Public Health; Located at both Salemba and Depok campus. [6]
[edit] Faculty of Social and Political Sciences - FISIP
FISIP is an acronym for Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik or Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at University of Indonesia; Located at Depok campus.
[edit] Faculty of Humanities - FIB
FIB is an acronym for Fakultas Ilmu Budaya or Faculty of Humanities at University of Indonesia; Located at Depok campus. It is known before as Fakultas Sastra.
[edit] Faculty of Computer Science - Fasilkom
Fasilkom is an acronym for Fakultas Ilmu Komputer or Faculty of Computer Science at University of Indonesia; located in the Depok campus and also in Salemba, Jakarta. This faculty was originated from the Computer Science Study Programme which dated back to 1986, which is an independent study programme of other faculties (under Indonesia Inter-University Centre for Computer Science - PUSILKOM UI), directly under the university rectorate. The study programme eventually established as the Faculty of Computer Science in 1993. [7]
Fasilkom offered two major of postgraduate. The first one is Magister Teknik Informasi (MTI / Master of Information Technology) which is located in Salemba. Another one is "Magister Ilmu Komputer" (Master of Computer Science) which is located in Depok. Fasilkom also offer Doctorate program of Computer Science. [8]
Currently, Faculty of Computer Science only has one major for undergraduate, which is Computer Science. The graduate will held title Sarjana Komputer (Bachelor of Computer). However, there is a plan to introduce new major for undergraduate at 2007, which is Information System. Since 2002, it offers International class which cooperates with School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, [[University of Queensland] [9]. The first class has graduated from UQ in December 2005 and graduated from Fasilkom itself in September 2006.
Fasilkom is also home of Lab Riset Kecerdasan Komputasional (Computational Intelligent Research Lab) which publish Indonesian Society on Computer and Information Science (ICIS) journal.[10]
[edit] Faculty of Nursing - FIK
In the old days, Faculty of Nursing is Located at Salemba campus. Now, Faculty of Nursing is located in both Depok and Salemba Campus. Faculty of Nursing is the youngest faculty at University of Indonesia and most of the students is women.
