THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT TO INVOLVE IN THE ELECTION OF RECTOR
A rector ("ruler", from the Latin regere and rector meaning "ruler" in Latin) is the highest academic official of many universities and in certain other institutions of higher education, as well as even in some secondarylevel schools. The term and office of a rector are called a rectorate. In a campus, rector become a very crucial position and the spotlight is the election of rector. This election become controversial among people, especially for university student.
Nowadays, many students are talking about this election. That has been controversial is the inability of students to choose their rector directly. Actually, most universities in Indonesia do not involve their students in Rector Election because there are pro and contra aspects that will appear if the students are involved in Rector Election.
These are the pro aspects of the election of rector in closed mode:
1. The election of Rector is too high level election, just ministry of education and senator who are fully responsible on it. There are three steps to choose the new rector in Brawijaya University for example, the first is crawl, and then screening, and the last is election. The people who have right to participate choose rectors are professors, representatives of academic staff, and student representatives, such as the president of the university student, representative of executive student, and faculty student groups. After that, the filtering is done by the council of the senate, and the final selection made by the Minister of Education. It should have been inappropriate to choose a good rector for university. Voters was also from people who are competent to decide which the rector is proper or not. If a university engage all students to vote, they may vote at random and do not thinking about the consequences, or even abstain. The things like that will bring out the bad habits for students.
2. University student are easy to be influenced. As we know, the student still has labile thinking, and emotions are easily provoked. In that election, the rector if they choose not elected, they could only perform actions anarchists. It can occur as well, the rector candidates affect a number of their students to choose in an open election. This should be avoided since the student is the agent of change and the future for our country.
3. students dont know exactly who is the most competent candidate to be a rector. A student may be inconsequential in selecting candidates for a new rector. The university of Brawijaya, rector election contained in a regulation that only the Ministry of Education and the council of the senate who know the regulation. Although the criteria to be listed prominently rector to the students, they still will not know wether their chosen rector fulfill the criteria or not.
4. It will affect their studies. In addition, students must think of their lecture, they still have to think about where rector candidates who fulfill the criteria or not. It would bother with their concentration in the teaching and learning activities.
5. This controversial case among universities students make them do such an anarchy, like demonstration and so on. If the new rector that the ministry have choose is not compatible and competent, for example it turns out that the new rector do the corruption, and so on, the student will do the demo or even bad things that they may can do.
Beside the pro aspects, these are also the contra aspects of the election of rector in closed mode :
1. University student is agent of change. They must able to apply their knowledge to social life because young people like university student have important roles in the government. If the election of rector, that become the important thing in university, should be closed election, the university student will not able to train their ability to be agent of change in society.
2. They are mature people means that they are able to select which is the best one to be leader. University students not only physically but also mature adults in mind and behavior. They are able to understand complicated things, such as political and social. With it, the students would have been able to think maturely in choosing a new rector for their kindness. In Brawijaya University, that the election of rector is in closed method, so who can choose just ministry of education, council of the senate, and representative of executive student. It would not be effective and can be worse for the student, they will not know who is their new rector, from where, and what’s his or her ability or mission and vision.
3. Students will sharpen their sense of social commitment and purpose, and marry ideals with action. Beside that, university students are already able to understand thing like the regulation of the election of rector.
4. The young generation will form the backbone of politics in the coming years. As we know that university student is agent of change and they already learnt how to socialize and organization during in university, so they must involved in rector election.
5. Teaches the application of democracy in university to students. It is very important for students, remembering the students are young people who can advance and develop the future of our country. Democracy since the university will teach them to socialize in the community, especially in the general election whether headman of village elections or presidential elections.
