IT was September 1964. I moved from Yogyakarta to Bogor, West Java. The government appointed me as Director of the National Institute of Biology, concurrently as Director of the Bogor Botanical Gardens. It was a new assignment because during the four years prior to this (1960-1964), I was Professor of Soil Sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University, in Yogyakarta.

I was the third national who became the Director of the Bogor