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Service System

The better the services to students , the more students register. As an example ,

this happened in 1986 when UT tried to improve its services to the students by
applying three registration periods in one year. However, because the facilities
and infrastructures could not support the service system , there appeared serious

problems so that the number of students decreased in the following year.

Cooperation with other Government Offices

The highest number of registering students ever recorded was 356,581 in the
1995.2 registration period . Of this number, 251 ,435 of them (70%) were the

students of D-11 PGSD Program, and 44.116 of them (12%) were the students of
D-Ill PGSMP Program . Until 2005 the number of students of D-11 PGSD program

was 696 .184, S1 PGSD program was 40,223 , D-Ill PTPL program was 11 ,122,
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D-Ill PGSMP program was 65.723 and the students who came from AI Zaitun
Muslim School was 5.816. These programs, at the beginning , were cooperative

programs with other government offices. Besides , there were still many
cooperation's with other Government Offices such as PT Garuda, PT Merpati,
BRI , BNI , TNI , PT ACS , and Biro Pusat Statistik.

Changes in the Amount of Tuition Fee

The increase in tuition fee brought about significant impact on the number

of reg istering students, although after quite a while this would no longer become
significant. As an example, the number of new reg istering students of regular
program in 1999.2 registration period was 30,992 . After the tuition fee increased

from 6,000 rupiahs per semester credit unit to 11 ,000 rupiahs in 2000 , the
number of new registering students decreased to 21,715 in the 2000 .1

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The Government requires agriculture extension workers to hold at least a three year University
Diploma (D-Ill).

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