Musamus Merauke University (

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: ''Universitas Musamus Merauke'', often abbreviated UNMUS) is a public university in

Merauke Merauke is a large town and the capital of the South Papua province, Indonesia. It is also the administrative centre of Merauke Regency in South Papua. It is considered the easternmost city in Indonesia. The town was originally called Ermasoe. It ...

South Papua South Papua, officially the South Papua Province ( id, Provinsi Papua Selatan), is an Indonesian province located in the southern portion of Papua, following the borders of Papuan customary region of Anim Ha. Formally established on 11 November 2 ...

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. The only public university (''Perguruan Tinggi Negeri'') in

, it is located at the southeastern corner of the Merauke main town and next to its airport. The university was founded in 2006, after having been a technological academy for 5 years. Later on, it was absorbed by the

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and became a public university.

History

The university was initially founded as ''Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Merauke'' (Merauke Technological Academy) on 26 January 2001. Their first cohort of 99 earned diploma degrees in 2005, and in the same year feasibility studies began for its conversion into a university. Following an investigation by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, the institute received its operational permit as a university on 16 August 2006, officially making it into a private university. On April the same year, president

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), commonly referred to by his initials SBY, is an Indonesian politician and retired army general who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party ...

stated that "there shall be a public university in Merauke within the next two years". Following further investigations, the university handed its assets to the central government on 23 May 2009, and was officially made a public university on 22 November 2010. More recently, there have been complaints about the underrepresentation of native

Papuan people The indigenous peoples of West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Arc ...

in the university's teaching staff. In 2016, the rectorate election of UNMUS was postponed by the

Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia (abbrievated as Kemenristek, or RISTEK-BRIN on its logo) was a government ministry that has the task of conducting affairs in the field of research, science and technology to ass ...

(''Kemenristekdikti'') due to irregularities in the voting university senate. In 2016, it was placed 251st in rank from 3,244 universities and other higher education institutes in Indonesia by ''Kemenristekdikti''.

Faculties and students

The university accepts students through the SNMPTN and SBMPTN, as with other public universities in Indonesia. The university provided 260 slots across all programs for the latter's exam-based selection for 2017 intake. The university has the following faculties: # Faculty of Agriculture # Faculty of Engineering # Faculty of Economy and Business # Faculty of Education # Faculty of Social and Political Sciences # Faculty of Law

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{{authority control 2001 establishments in Indonesia Educational institutions established in 2001 Indonesian state universities Merauke Universities in South Papua

History

Faculties and students

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