Agus Setiawan

Agus Setiawan (born 5 August 1975) is an Indonesian nurse and university administrator who is currently the deputy rector for infrastructure and facility of the University of Indonesia (UI), serving in the position since 16 December 2024. He was also the dean of the university's nursing faculty since 2018.

Education

Agus was born in Jakarta on 5 August 1975. He received his bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Indonesia in 1999. He then continued his studies at the University of Technology Sydney, where he received his master's degree in 2006 and his doctoral degree in 2014.

Academic career Agus began his lecturing career as a lecturer at UI's community health department of the nursing faculty. As a lecturer, Agus specializes in community-based intervention, child health, access to health care, human resource for health, and health inequalities. From 2014 to 2017, Agus was the chief of the nursing faculty's administrative center. Previously, he was AIPNI's secretary general and chair of the association's fifth region.

On 22 November 2017, Agus was selected as the new dean of UI's nursing faculty. In his presentation, Agus aimed at making the faculty as a leading center for nursing education in Southeast Asia and improving the quality of nursing graduates to compete in the ASEAN region. Agus plans to address several weaknesses at FIK UI, such as the imbalance between the number of lecturers and students, lack of coordination, limited facilities, and insufficient professional practice supervisors. He was installed for the position on 8 January 2018. During his tenure, the faculty was officially accredited by the ASEAN University Network and the International Organization for Standardization and the faculty's journal began to be indexed by Scopus.

During Agus's first term, the faculty was involved in combatting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The faculty established a crisis center to educate the general public regarding the pandemic and provide mental support. The center also trained volunteers from all over Indonesia. The faculty also trained nurses to help limit the spread of the virus in cooperation with institutions such as the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture. In December 2020, the faculty held an international conference involving nursing academicians from around the world to address the-then ongoing pandemic. He also served as the coordinator for deans in the university's health sciences cluster from 2020 to 2023. In 2023, the faculty's undergraduate program was officially accredited by the (AHPGS, Accreditation Agency in Health and Social Sciences). On 1 October 2023, Agus was promoted to the rank of full professor.

Agus ran as a candidate for UI's rector in mid-2024, but failed to pass the final selection process prior to an election by the board of trustees. Heri Hermansyah from the engineering faculty was elected as UI's new rector, who then appointed Agus as acting deputy rector for academic and student affairs to replace the outgoing acting deputy Dedi Priadi. As part of his duties as deputy rector, on 2 January 2025 Agus became a member of the supervisory board of the University of Indonesia's hospital, representing the rector.

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