Indonesia to train next ruling class at elite new university

On what was once a palm oil plantation outside Bogor, Indonesia’s government is planting the seeds of a new institution designed to nurture the next generation of leaders. But President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitions for the University of the Republic of Indonesia (URI) do not stop at statecraft – officials have also billed it as the answer to the Southeast Asian nation’s shortage of technological talent. “We have such abundant natural resources, but to this day we are technologically behind,”...

By Resty Woro Yuniar