THE cleanliness of the campus grounds at Jatinangor appears truly enticing. From the gateway, designed as a symbolic rice mountain cut into four, only a well-kept dense expanse of green grass stretches off towards the red-roofed luxurious buildings in the background. At one edge of a garden, large, clear letters in shrubbery form STPDN.

Located on the main Bandung-Sumedang road in cool air, the campus of the Public Administration Institute (STPDN)