Kartini Muljadi SH

President of Commissioner

Board

Mrs. Muljadi is the founder and senior partner of Kartini Muljadi & Rekan, and is one of Indonesia's most distinguished corporate and commercial lawyers.

For many years, Mrs. Muljadi has provided counsel to business leaders, government representatives, practicing lawyers and academics, from within Indonesia and overseas. She has advised many leading domestic and international enterprises on their investment and operations in Indonesia and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and project finance and capital markets. Mrs. Muljadi is regularly ranked by the likes of "Who's Who Legal" as among Indonesia's leading lawyers in these fields. 

In addition to her practice advising private enterprises, Mrs. Muljadi is also prominent in the public sector. She is regularly consulted by the Indonesian government and has worked closely with the government institutions such as IBRA, INDRA and the Jakarta Initiative, in efforts to improve governance, and foster Indonesia's private economy. She is also regularly consulted by multinational agencies such as the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. 

Mrs. Muljadi has been actively involved in a number of significant law reform initiatives in Indonesia including law reform relating to the capital markets, company law and insolvency.

Mrs. Muljadi graduated from the University of Indonesia in 1958, having earlier studied in Holland. She served as a Judge of the Special Court in Jakarta from 1958 until her voluntary retirement in 1970, and has taught civil procedure, corporate and commercial law at several law faculties in Jakarta. As well as being a senior partner of Kartini Muljadi & Rekan, Mrs. Muljadi is an honarary member of the Indonesian Bar Association and the Indonesian Capital Market Arbitration Board. She is also the member of the Board Trustees of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Indonesian Institute of Commissioners and Directors and the Indonesian AIDS Foundation.

Mrs. Muljadi is also Indonesia's most successful woman entrepreneur (Forbes Magazine) with her PT Tempo Scan Pacific Tbk. Mrs. Muljadi was one of the members (2002 - 2004) and the Chairman (2004 - 2007) of the Board of Trustees of University of Indonesia. She is also one of a few woman mentors at the Jakarta Founder Institute, a global network of startups, mentors, and investors, started in Silicon Valley. 

In 2004, Mrs. Muljadi a Capital Markets Lifetime Achievement Award from the President of the Republic of Indonesia. 

Online Education Facts

In 2002, less than one-half (50%) of all higher education institutions reported online education was critical to their long-term strategy. In 2013, that number is close to seventy percent (70%).

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

The proportion of chief academic leaders that say online learning is critical to their long-term strategy is now at 69.1 percent – the highest it has been for this ten-year period.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

The number of students taking at least one online course increased by over 570,000 to a new total of 6.7 million.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

Students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction.

Source: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, US Department of Education, September 2010.

edX and San Jose State University pilot a difficult circuits and electronic course. The result: 40% of student in the conventional class got a grade of C or lower, and only 9% in the blended edX class got such a lower grade.

Source: The New York Times, January 15th, 2013.

The Indonesian government approved a new regulation to make it easier for higher education institutions to offer high quality online degrees: Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan No. 24 Tahun 2012 (April 26th, 2012).

Mr. Boediono, Indonesia’s Vice President, requested the Minister of Education to continue developing the blue print for online education in Indonesia during an annual meeting with Presidents of all universities in Indonesia (January 28th, 2013).

71% of leaders of for-profit colleges and universities report that their institutions offer classes online, and more than half (54%) say these classes offer the same value as classes taken in person.

Source: The Digital Revolution and Higher Education, Pew Research Center.

The proportion of all students taking at least one online course is at an all-time high of 32.0 percent.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.