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Therefore, ICDE confers the status of Internationally Accredited and ISA

Certificate of Quality.
The ICDE Certificate of Quality and International Accreditation was

conferred on the opening ceremony of "The 19 h Asian Association of Open
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University (AAOU) Annual Conference" in Jakarta on the 15 h of September 2005.
It was presented by Secretary General of ICDE to the Rector of UT and
witnessed by the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Yusuf Kalla, who

officially opened the OOAU Conference , and the Minister of National Education ,
Bambang Sudibyo.

Striving for ISO 9001 :2000

UT has been awarded by ICDE the Certificate of Quality and International
Accreditation , however, its effort to reach higher standards in quality
management system continues . UT continually improves its management system

in many aspects of distance education activities. In conducting th is, UT is of the
opinion that the ISO quality management system is instrumental in nature for

setting benchmark of the standardized process control and is believed to bring
UT towards becoming a well structured and managed institution . For this

purpose, UT has taken all necessary measures to invite the ISO certification
agency to assure the quality management of its products , processes and

services.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which was introduced

in Indonesia in 1987, is an international agency that provides Standards for
Quality Management System. The system has been initially used in business and

service industry; however, it can also be implemented in educational sector -
which can be categorized as service industry. The ISO 9000 series, for example,

aim to standardise institutional quality assurance that is used by more than

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