ANIS BASWEDAN

Mr.Anis Baswedan was born in 1969. He is the shon of Mr.Rassyd Baswedan,former vice Rector of UII Yogyakarta,and mrs.Aliyah,professor from Yogyakarta state University.

Since young,Anis baswedan has participated in many organizations. In 1983 he was the chairperson of farewell parti of SMPN 05 Yogyakarta. In 1987 he was the osis chairperson in SMA 02 Yogyakarta and later was appointed chairperson of the Indonesia OSIS. His participations in these organizations gave him a lot of experience which led him to become the chairman of the Gadjah Mada University Sanate in 1992.

In 1987 he was aparticipant of AFS,Indonesia-American student exchangen progam. He stayed in Milwakuee,Wisconsin,United States for one year which broadened his horizons.

He had experience as an interviewer when he worked for Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) Yogyakarta in 1989. He managed a program entitled Tanah Merdeka. He learned a lot of things from great people.

Mr.Anis Baswedan is a smart student. He received many scholarships from abroad, such as japan Airlines scholarships of JAL Foundation in 1993, a scholarships to continuehis master’s degree for international security and Economic Policy at the university with merit and integrity in the development of politicalacience in 2004. In addition, Mr.Anis also received many awards, such as William P.cole III Felloship of the school of public policy,university of Maryland in 1998 when he was taking his master’s degree and the ASEAN Student Awards progam of USAID-AGE-NAFSA in the same year.

Mr.Anis Baswedan also has many other awesome achievement. He was the Director of Indonesian Research Institute, an organization that focuses on research and analysis of public policy, in 2005. He became the youngest rector in Indonesia when he was elected as Rector of the University of Paramadina in 2007. Then he initiated paramidana Fellowship, a program to recruit the best student,and a compulsory subject entitled Against Corruption, an anti-corruption teaching. In 2008 he was elected as one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine. He was the only figure from Indonesia and Southeast Asia in the list of 100 intellectuals in the word. He established Gerakan Indonesia Mengajar which sends the best young people to teach at elementary schools in remote areas. The program is intendedto fill the shortage of qualified teachers and be a vehicle for the leadership of the best young generation to have global competence and understadibg of the grass roots. In the same year,he was appointedone of 20 important people for the next 20 years by Foresight Magazine. He is predicted to change the word in the next 20 years to come. Many more !!

Mr. Anis Baswedan married Ferry Farhati Ganis and has four children.

      Translated from :http//aniesbaswedan.com/biografi-anis-baswedan (September 1,2014)