National Admission Selection of Academic Achievement for State Islamic Higher Education Institutions 2018 Has Been Officially Opened
Monday, January 29th 2018. Minister of Religious Affairs of Republic of Indonesia, Lukman Hakim Syaifuddin has officially opened the National Admission Selection of Academic Achievement for State Islamic Higher Education Institutions 2018 in Jakarta. With the theme of “Future Gate of the Plenary Human Being”, there are many things discussed in the opening of National Admission Selection 2018 yesterday.
The Minister of Religious Affairs asked all leaders of State Islamic Higher Education Institutions to oversee the development of all Islamic study programs. According to him, the phenomenon of the lack of prospective students to the majors or courses of Islamic studies should be immediately responded. Meanwhile, the study program that is very interested to students today is Economics and Islamic Banking. “There should be an effort to respond this,” as the Minister said. For UIN Antasari itself, the hope of the Minister have been realized with the opening of the Faculty of Economics and Islamic Business in Academic Year 2018/2019 later.
Separately, Secretary General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Nur Syam requested that State Islamic Higher Education Institutions are being a part that can educate Indonesian people with religious literacy which are the ability to see and analyze the intersection between religion and social life, politics, and culture from various points of view, as he said, “State Islamic Higher Education Institutions should promote the moderation of religion and society must be educated by increasing religious literacy.”
The scheme of admission of foreign students is also included in this year’s selection. According to the Director General of Islamic Education, Kamaruddin Amin, that it is done in order to make State Islamic Higher Education Institutions can expand their influences and gain recognition at the international level. “State Islamic Higher Education Institutions should open their gates to foreign students, even have the courage to give scholarships at least standard tuition fee. Related to living cost, I and Director of Islamic Higher Education Institutions will try to find it out, “he said. Furthermore, the Director General of Islamic Education hopes that in 2019 all State Islamic Universities will be accredited A. For IAIN and STAIN should also be upgraded, at least no one is accredited C. So far, UIN Antasari has been accredited B and encourages accreditation of study program into A so as to improve university accreditation.
A total of 57 State Islamic Higher Education Institutions will hold National Admission Selection of Academic Achievement for State Islamic Higher Education Institutions 2018. The registration is scheduled to take place from 1st to 29th March 2018. The selection results will be announced on May 1st, 2018. For registration of National Admission Selection is planned to open from 12th April to 8th May 2018. The admission selection will be held on May 22nd and the results will be announced on July 10th. (Courtesy of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Republic of Indonesia).