ONE day in 2009, an angry man burst into the campus startling the new students welcoming committee of the Ciputra University. The man, outraged by his son’s decision to choose Ciputra University over the Medical Faculty of the University of Indonesia even as the latter had accepted him, vented his anger at the committee members.

The son, as it turned out, had his own reasons to insist on choosing Ciputra University instead. He wanted to be an