Silencing Students Voice
Sunday, July 4, 2021
No matter how impolite it is, criticism of the government from students must not be muzzled. Allowing rectors to hold a position in state-owned companies weakens the independence of campuses.
WHEN it comes to muzzling student criticism, the governments of Suharto and Joko Widodo seem just the same. The difference is in the method. During the Suharto era, repression was done by the implementation of the Normalization of Campus Life and the Student Coordination Board (NKK/BKK). Nowadays a different method is used: university rectors are controlled by giving them lucrative positions as commissioners of state-owned
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