Anies Baswedan's name has been in the news lately. As is known, after being abandoned by a number of supporting parties, Anies' ticket as a gubernatorial candidate in the 2024 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election (Pilgub) is predicted to be lost even though his electability is high.
Having failed to advance in the Jakarta gubernatorial election, Anies also received an offer from the PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) to take part in the 2024 West Java (Jabar) regional election. However, he rejected the offer on the grounds that there were no aspirations from the people of West Java for Anies.
However, Anies Baswedan's career journey before entering the world of politics was quite long and full of achievements. Anies is known as a brilliant academic. His youth was also spent actively participating in organizations.
So what does the old portrait of Anies Baswedan look like? Here is a summary of brilio.net from Instagram @aniesbaswedan, Friday (30/8).
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Anies Baswedan is not only known in the academic world, but also as an activist from an early age.
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While still in high school, he became the vice chairman of OSIS and was elected as the chairman of OSIS throughout Indonesia at the age of 16.
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After being elected as chairman of OSIS in 1985, Anies even participated in the AFS student exchange program and lived for a year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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At the university level, Anies was active as Chairman of the UGM Senate in 1992.
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Anies' leadership period saw the start of a research-based movement, a response to the exposure of the Clove Buffer and Marketing Agency case involving President Soeharto's son, Hutomo Mandala Putra.
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After graduating with a BA, Anies Baswedan continued his MA in International Security and Economic Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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It didn't take long for Anies to get his doctoral degree, he also successfully completed a doctoral program in political science at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb in 2001.
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The man who was born on May 7, 1969 is known to have started his academic career as a lecturer at Paramadina University in 2001.
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He was then elected as the youngest Chancellor at Paramadina University in 2007 and served until 2015. At that time he was known to be 38 years old.
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While working as an educator, Anies also initiated the Indonesia Mengajar movement, a program that sends the best college graduates to teach in remote areas for one year.
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Anies himself has been involved in politics since 2013, when he participated in the presidential candidate convention held by the Democratic Party. At that time he was ranked third in the convention.