Rebuttals for On Campus Military Training
Several civil society and student organizations are refuting a government plan to introduce military-type education on campus.
Tempo
August 24, 2020
RESEARCH coordinator for Imparsial, an NGO, Ardimanto Adiputra, assesses the plan as containing potential for slipping in militaristic sensibilities, including perpetuating the hazing tradition within the student community. “This is damaging to democratic principles in education,” he said on Tuesday, August 18.
Ardimanto is of the opinion the idea for defending the state need not only emerge from military training but can arise
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