Scientific Oration of Prof. Jimly Asshiddiqie at IPB
As part of the 53rd Anniversary Program of Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB Bogor Agricultural University), IPB organized the open session presenting the legal expert of the University of Indonesia (UI), who is also the Chairman of the Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia (ICMI – the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals), Prof. Dr. Jimly Asshiddiqie, SH, at Graha Widya Wisuda, Campus IPB, Dramaga, Bogor, on Wednesday, 5 October 2016. During which Prof. Asshiddiqie presented his scientific oration on "Undang-undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945 = The 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia," The Constitution of Liberty, Constitutional Exemption for Creativity and Innovation for the Advancement of the Nation ".
Rector of IPB, Prof. Dr. Herry Suhardiyanto, M.Sc., stated that 53 years ago, the first President of the Republic of Indonesia, Bung Karno, thoughtfully view the importance of agriculture for Indonesia. Accordingly, Bung Karno, provided such visionary problem solving by establishing IPB to enable Indonesia to be the independent nation for food. Today, as the challenge is getting stronger and the increasing growth rate the population, so the required food to feed the nation is sharply increased. Climate change in Indonesia not only has implications for the country’s environment, it also immensely affects its people and development. Faces challenges arising from low productivity, climate change, natural resource constraints, food security needs, and sustainable development, they have caused food security problem for Indonesia, thus Indonesia has to import various foods.
In order to meet the challenges that lie ahead, IPB continues to strive to create a culture of innovation in accordance nation. Moreover, for structuring and strengthening the downstream and upstream agriculture, creating progress in agricultural sustainability to support policy-making, and innovations to achieve food security system, Indonesia has launched LISat satellite. The satellite will be functioning as remote sensing and will generate more accurate data to support the development of agriculture.
Prof. Dr. Asshiddiqie, stated that the university communities of IPB should be proud of to know that they are member of one of the leading universities on agriculture in Indonesia. As the leading university in Indonesia IPB has successfully produced a lot of innovations. However, the most important of all, the research produced by IPB must be applicable in the community.
He said that the open mind and individual freedom in the community life, moreover the curiosity of the communities will be conducive for the growing of innovative thinking. In fact, the innovation itself requires freedom. If freedom won’t grow and develop in a common life, a lot of obstacles that will hamper the development of creativity and innovation.
In a religious society, who have different rituals and practices that accompany and highlight their believed respectively, the general attitude of the people is strongly influenced by their religious teachings and understandings about life. If the adopted person's religious understanding does not lead to a productive work ethic for the benefit of society at large, or even cause a person to be exclusive and shut themselves off from real life, thus the innovative culture will not grow and even will hinder and development. Similarly, if the feudal and paternalistic cultural traditions inherited from generation to generation has not changed, of course development of the culture of innovation will be hampered. Feudal culture won’t provide healthy competition and good quality life, accordingly innovations in all walk of life will also be hampered. (Wied)
