JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek) Togar MSimatupang said that various activities held by members of the Indonesian National Army (TNI) on campuses were part of the openness of universities.
"The presence of the TNI is part of the openness itself," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 30.
He explained that universities are open or inclusive scientific spaces, where all children of the nation can access and contribute to them.
Togra ensures that various activities in universities that involve the TNI in general are related to university tridarms, both based on invitations, cooperation, and statutory mandates.
In addition, Togar ensured that the public's negative stigma regarding the TNI's expertise as speakers on campuses was not true, because each agency had the best standards and practices that became the reference for activities involving third parties.
"Experts and competence as well as technology are also developing in the TNI. Sharing knowledge and skills is needed so that more advanced scientific development can be developed," he said.
If the activities involving the TNI are related to teaching in class, he said, then each university also has the condition that the strata and qualifications of the TNI members concerned are fulfilled.
Togar also emphasized that the presence of the TNI on campuses was not in an effort to silence public voices channeled through students.
"There is a quality guarantor process, there is an audit, even a complaint system to prevent or enforce or deal with problems," he said.
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