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by West Java Education Office until 1991 . Therefore , UPBJJ Bogor at that time

recruited 5 staff consisting of 2 academic staff and 3 administration staff. The
number of staff in each UPBJJ varied . The need for staff also varied according to

the size of UPBJJ and the service areas. At the beginning, the number of staff at
each UPBJJ ranged from 3 to 8.

As the number of students increased starting from the second year of UT's
operation, UT Head Office recru ited new staff for the UPBJJs almost every year.

After having adequate staff, UPBJJs gradually returned on-loan staff to the
partner universities. Those who wanted to stay were asked to be transferred to
UT. Nowadays, many Heads of UPBJJ are still those with on-loan status, but

some UPBJJs have started to be managed by UT staff assigned by UT Head

Office . The UPBJJs with the heads from UT staff are Heads of UPBJJ Jakarta,
Bogor, Bandung , Yogyakarta , Serang , Bangka Belitung , and Ternate . In the
future, more UPBJJs will be managed by UT's staff. Some honorary staffs of

UPBJJs have gradually become civil servants . Apart from staff recruited by
UPBJJs themselves , some staffs are assigned by UT Head Office to be placed at

UPBJJs.
In 1991 /1992 academic year, Department of Education and Culture (now

Department of National Education) through a decree instructed UT to accept
around 500 former teachers of SPG and SGO to be academic staff at UT. They

were assigned to work at UPBJJs , except those with S2 or S3 degrees whose
qualifications were needed at UT Head Office. UPBBJs with extended areas like

UPBJJs Bandung and Surabaya, and some other UPBJJs, assigned some of the
new staff to extended areas with the same tasks as those at UPBJJs . UPBJJ

Surabaya received 32 new academic staff. Regional coordinators selected from
former teachers of SPG and SGO had their own offices at their areas.

Recruitment of these new staff posed certain problems to those UPBJJ with
relatively small number of students and inadequate office facilities , as it

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