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Meanwhile, UT’s strategic environment that as PTNBH, UT’s revenue will no longer
is also facing dynamic development. The be categorized as the state revenue, and
implementation of the ASEAN Economic thus UT will have complete autonomy in
Community agreement, the development managing the financial affairs as is any non-
of advanced information technology, governmental institutions. This change will
globalization, and changes in government dramatically allow UT to develop its existing
policies, forces UT to have a high level of potentials and to provide better services.
anticipation, adaptability, and flexibility. UT Financial autonomy would also allow UT
must be able to respond to the changing to explore and capitalize on the latest
demands of society and dynamics of technology for its system and operations.
environment by continuously enhancing As well all understand, technology is the key
the relevance of its educational programs element to the current and future educational
and services using the state-of-the-art provision. With technology, UT will be able to
technology. However, UT also must provide achieve its milestones and to realize its vision
quality higher education at an affordable effectively and efficiently. As a consequence,
level to all society. In a situation like this, UT such autonomy would of course need to be
is required to have an ability to find various implemented with increased transparency
sources of income and utilize them efficiently and accountability.
for optimal education services.
MANAGEMENT
Organizationally, UT had a significant change
in 2011. Through a Decree of the Minister of Organizational Structure
Finance No. 268/ KMK.05 /2011, UT’s status UT has a headquarter in the capital city
changed from a ‘regular’ state university of Jakarta and 39 ROs spread throughout
to become a state university with a ‘public Indonesia (Figure 1). To support the new
service agency’ (Badan Layanan Umum – BLU) PTNBH status, UT’s organizational structure
status known as PTN-BLU. This change is very needed also to be updated, and it is now
essential to UT. As a public service agency, UT still in the making process. The current
can directly use its revenue without having organizational structure is the one officiated
to deposit it in the state treasury first, even by the Decree of Minister of Research,
though it is still categorized as state revenue. Technology, and Higher Education of
Thus, UT can be more flexible in managing the Indonesia No. 16, 2017Juncto Decree of
use of funds in accordance with operational Minister of Research, Technology, and
needs to support quality learning. UT is Higher Education of Indonesia No. 84 of 2017
currently preparing the transformation again which lays out the statutes of the university
from the status of PTN-BLU to State University as well as the organizational structure. In
with Legal Entities (known as PTNBH). As a implementation, some additional working
PTNBH, UT would have a full autonomy in units were added to the official organizational
both academic and non-academic affairs. structure in line with UT needs.
One of the most significant differences is

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