The University of Indonesia is a modern, comprehensive, open, multicultural, and humanistic campus that encompasses a wide range of disciplines. UI currently always strives to be one of the leading research universities or academic institutions in the world. As a research university, efforts to achieve the highest level in terms of discovery, development and dissemination of knowledge regionally and globally are always carried out. Meanwhile, UI also deepens its commitment in the field of academic development and research activities through a number of disciplines within its scope.
Established in 1849, UI is a representation of the oldest educational institution with the longest history in Asia. Having produced more than 400,000 alumni, UI continues to play an important role at the national and international level. Nevertheless, UI cannot escape from its current mission to become a high-quality educational institution, world-standard research and maintain prestige standards in a number of top international journals.
With the predicate as the best state university in the country, UI actively develops global cooperation with many renowned universities in the world. Some leading universities that are currently recorded to have agreements with UI include:
Washington University,
Tokyo University,
Melbourne University,
Sydney University,
Leiden University,
Erasmus University,
Kyoto University,
Peking University,
Tsinghua University,
Australian National University,
Columbia University andNational University of Singapore. In addition, UI is currently also strengthening its cooperation with several educational and research associations including:
APRU (Association of Pacific Rim Universities) with a role as Board of Director,
AUN (ASEAN University Network), and
ASAIHL (Association of South East Asia Institution of Higher Learning).
Geographically, the position of the UI campus is in two distant areas, the Salemba campus and the Depok campus. Most faculties are located in Depok with an area of up to 320 hectares with a
green campus atmosphere because only 25% of the land is used as academic, research and student facilities. 75% of the UI area can be said to be a green area in the form of a city forest where there are 8 natural lakes. An area that promises a calm and shady traditional academic nuance.
