UIN Jakarta to Confer Honorary Doctorate (DR HC) Degree to Lukman Hakim Saifuddin

UIN Jakarta to Confer Honorary Doctorate (DR HC) Degree to Lukman Hakim Saifuddin

  • 13 May 2022
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Rectorate, UIN News Online – UIN Jakarta will confer an honorary doctorate (DR. HC) degree to the Indonesian Monister of Religious Affairs for the period of 2014-2019 Lukman Hakim Saifuddin. The honorary doctoral conferment ceremony will be held on Tuesday (05/31/2022) at Harun Nasution Auditorium, campus I of UIN Jakarta.

Based on the release of the Public Relations office of UIN Jakarta received by UIN News Online, Thursday (05/13/2022). LHS will be given an honorary doctorate due to his services in developing the country, especially in terms of developing Islamic education and religious moderation in Indonesia. Acting as the Promoter were Professor of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities and Chancellor of UIN Jakarta for the period 1998-2006, Azyumardi Azra.

LHS was born in Jakarta on November 26, 1962 to Saefuddin Zuhri and Solichah. He studied at SD Negeri Jakarta and Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Manaratul Ulum Jakarta, SMP Negeri XI Jakarta, Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor, Ponorogo, East Java (1983), and a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Da'wah, As-Syafiiyah Islamic University, Jakarta (1990).

At the age of 35, he became a member of the Indonesian People's Representative Council for the 1997-1999 period from the United Development Party (PPP). He was subsequently re-elected in the 1999, 2004, and 2009 legislative elections, eventually becoming the Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly.

At the end of 2014, he was appointed by president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Minister of Religious Affairs, replacing Suryadharma Ali, and when Joko Widodo was elected as the new president in 2014, he was reappointed as Minister of Religious Affairs fin the 2014-2019 Working Indonesia Cabinet.

Apart from being the Minister of Religion, LHS was also active in various organizations. He was noted as Deputy Chair of the Program Development Division of the Saifuddin Zuhri Foundation (1994-present), Deputy Secretary of the Central Executive Board of the Nadhlatul Ulama Family Welfare Institution (1985-1988), Secretary of YISC Al-Azhar (1985-1988), Chairman of the NU Lakpesdam Board (1992-1995), Member of the Board of Education and Training Center of the PPP DPP (1994-1999), Head of the PPP DPP Education and Training Center (1999-2003), Secretary of PH DPP PPP (2003-2007), Head of PH DPP PPP (2007-2012), Head of the Lakpesdam Study Program NU (1989–1995), and Project Manager Helen Keller International, Jakarta (1995–1997). (ns/usa/vrssrc)