The Minister Of PANRB Ensures That The Recommendation For The Increase In The Status Of The State Hindu Religious High School Is Still Being Processed

Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Abdulah Azwar Anas visited STAHN Mpu Kuturan Singaraja, Bali, Monday (20/5/2024). ANTARA/IMBA Purnomo

DENPASAR - Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Abdulah Azwar Anas ensured that the recommendation to increase the status of the State Hindu Religious High School (STAHN) Mpu Kuturan Singaraja to the State Hindu Religious Institute is still in process.

"In the near future (recommendations) will soon go down. Currently it is still in process," said Abdulah Azwar Anas while reviewing the STAHN Mpu Kuturan Singaraja Campus in Banyuning Village, Singaraja City, Buleleng Regency, Bali, Monday, May 20.

According to him, the largest and only country religious education campus in northern Bali deserves to increase the status of high schools to institutes because the education process has been carried out well, as well as the terms of student requirements and others that have met the minimum requirements.

Anas explained that the proposed increase in status from high school to institute was also an effort to strengthen higher education governance so that later it could have an impact on the common people.

"I hope that campuses can support bureaucratic programs with an impact, where indicators such as poverty alleviation, investment, handling inflation, and digitization. I think the campus can jointly encourage digitalization in various sectors," explained Anas.

In the future, continued Minister Anas, STAHNMpu Kuturan Singaraja collaborated with local governments and representative councils in the regions in an effort to build the community.

"So, the government must be assessed together between the regional government and the DPRD. If the participation of universities is added, it will be extraordinary," he said.

The former Banyuwangi Regent also hopes that STAHN Mpu Kuturan Singaraja graduates can become great ideas, not only from the religious side, but also from other understandings and horizons based on grounded religious knowledge.

"Of course the challenges of achieving it are many. But my hope is that the rector and staff will be able to realize qualified higher education governance, starting from institutional evaluation, equitable distribution, proportionality of the ratio of lecturers and students, increasing the competence of lecturers, and studies programs in the religious sector must be the focus of State Religious Universities (PTKN)," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of STAHN Mpu Kutpuran Singaraja Prof. Dr. I Gede Suwindia said the increase in STAHN status to an institute has been processed and has been carried out in accordance with the mandate of the Master Plan for Development (RIP) and Strategic Plans (Renstra), as well as all minimum requirements can be exceeded.

"Requirements such as educators, study programs, students and campus infrastructure that we continue to improve," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

Suwindia explained that Suwindia Mpu Kuturan Singaraja's Sun with a superior vision of dignified and character "Tri Kaya Parisudha" always strives to increase capacity and capability related to higher education governance.

In the future, the high public interest and the number of students who continue to grow every year will be a challenge in itself.

"Hopefully we can carry out the transformation from high school to institute immediately," added Suwindia.