As for my credentials, I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law at Universitas Gadjah Mada, which is the largest and oldest state university in the country, in 1989. (Gadjah Mada was ranked first in Indonesia in the Times Higher Education Supplement-Quacquarelly Symonds (THES-QS) University Rankings 2007.) A year before graduation, I had been in charge of co-ordinating hundreds of students from about fifteen different faculties with their respective development programs (locally known as "Kuliah Kerja Nyata" or KKN) to support people's livelihoods in rural areas, the result of which became the province's pilot project. I also gained some early organizational experience by actively being involved in such student activities as managing educational tours and comparative studies to other law schools across the country. At the end of my study, I focused on Environmental Law and did research on Industrial Pollution Control, the basis for my undergraduate thesis. Previously, I had received my Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Management, from the prestigious Diponegoro University Economics Faculty.
In addition to the Bachelor's Degrees, I received a Master's Degree in Management in 1993, also from Universitas Gadjah Mada (the Faculty of Economics and Business), and a Master of Laws Degree from Harvard University Law School in 1997. These four degrees have offered me an extraordinary perspective on law, economics, and business management. Furthermore, I have attended various courses and training at some renowned institutions, including a training workshop on "Environmental Reform: the Next Generation Project" at Yale University Law School in 1996 and a 1997 spring semester course on "The Manager's Legal Function" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.
In October 1989, I was accepted as a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Tarumanagara University in Jakarta. At that time, as a representative of Tarumanagara University to BP7 Pusat (Central National Ideology Agency), I was awarded the first rank out of 111 delegates in the national training of P4 (the implementation of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila). Since then I have been assigned to teach several courses such as Environmental Law, International Business Transactions, Introduction to Law, Business Law, Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Economics, Principles of Management, and Development Economics.
Apart from teaching activities, I have had considerable experience working with organizations. For example, from June 2004 to May 2005 I had been assigned as national co-ordinator for legal verifications of 14,635 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) assets of the State-owned Asset Management Company (PPA). PPA is the successor to the Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), responsible for managing assets totalling billions of US dollars of the Indonesian defunct banks. In November 2002, in response to the Bali bombings, I was appointed as a member of the National Committee for Indonesian Economic Recovery, established by a co-ordinating minister's decree.
In addition, I have been involved as either chairman or secretary of committees in arranging seminars, symposia, and business and academic meetings, such as yearly international events of Tourism Indonesia Mart and Expo (TIME) attended by participants from some 30 countries, a conference of Intellectual Property Rights (in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] and the United Nations Development Programme [UNDP]), as well as many others. I have earned honours from those activities.
In addition to the Bachelor's Degrees, I received a Master's Degree in Management in 1993, also from Universitas Gadjah Mada (the Faculty of Economics and Business), and a Master of Laws Degree from Harvard University Law School in 1997. These four degrees have offered me an extraordinary perspective on law, economics, and business management. Furthermore, I have attended various courses and training at some renowned institutions, including a training workshop on "Environmental Reform: the Next Generation Project" at Yale University Law School in 1996 and a 1997 spring semester course on "The Manager's Legal Function" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.
In October 1989, I was accepted as a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Tarumanagara University in Jakarta. At that time, as a representative of Tarumanagara University to BP7 Pusat (Central National Ideology Agency), I was awarded the first rank out of 111 delegates in the national training of P4 (the implementation of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila). Since then I have been assigned to teach several courses such as Environmental Law, International Business Transactions, Introduction to Law, Business Law, Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Economics, Principles of Management, and Development Economics.
Apart from teaching activities, I have had considerable experience working with organizations. For example, from June 2004 to May 2005 I had been assigned as national co-ordinator for legal verifications of 14,635 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) assets of the State-owned Asset Management Company (PPA). PPA is the successor to the Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), responsible for managing assets totalling billions of US dollars of the Indonesian defunct banks. In November 2002, in response to the Bali bombings, I was appointed as a member of the National Committee for Indonesian Economic Recovery, established by a co-ordinating minister's decree.
In addition, I have been involved as either chairman or secretary of committees in arranging seminars, symposia, and business and academic meetings, such as yearly international events of Tourism Indonesia Mart and Expo (TIME) attended by participants from some 30 countries, a conference of Intellectual Property Rights (in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] and the United Nations Development Programme [UNDP]), as well as many others. I have earned honours from those activities.
