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academic staff and administration staff. Number of administration and academic

staff in each UPBJJ can be found in Annex 6.

4) Development of Facilities
At the beginning of UT's operation, UPBJJ's office buildings yvere borrowed

from partner universities (except UPBBJ Bogor wh ich made use of an office
building at STM Negeri Boger), but for the UPBJJs set up after 2000, UT or its

partners rent buildings for their offices. The build ing for UPBJJ Pangkal Pinang,
for example, the Provincial Government rented a building for it for three years. It

was a form of the Governor's (Drs Hudarni Rani) attention to efforts of qual ity
improvement of human resources in the province. UPBJJ Gorontalo formerly

occupied History Laboratory Building at IKIP Negeri Gorontalo. In a short time,
on September 2003 UPBJJ Gorontalo built a 500 square meters office building on

a 1.662 square meters land. The office was built by Gorontalo Governor's
assistance - H. Fadel Mohammad . On 23 January 2004 , UPBBJ Gorontalo was

officially open, in commemoration of Gorontalo Patriot's Day.
Beside office bu ildings , UPBBJs also got modest equipment from partner

universities, such as typewriters, tables, chairs and wooden cupboard . All
UPBJJs set up at the beginning of UT's establishment used simple and manual

facilities while new UPBJJs had adequate facil ities, even though their office
buildings were rented .
As the number of students increased, UPBJJs add some more facilities to

give better services to students. It happened at almost all UPBJJs but the

development of UPBBJ was different from one another depending on the number
of students and their unique local conditions. UPBJJs in Java and Sumatera have
more students than UPBBJs in other regions . It is understandable as the two

islands are more populous .

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