Manasse Malo

Manasse Malo Ndapatondo (2 May 19416 January 2007) was an Indonesian professor of sociology and politician. He was the dean of the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Social and Political Sciences from 1982 to 1988 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2004.

Early life and education Malo was born on 2 May 1941 at a village in West Sumba as the child of Herman Malo Ndapatondo, the first indigenuous reverend of the Christian Church of Sumba, and Yuliana. His father was a well-known preacher in West Sumba. While he was in elementary school, Mallo recalled nominating himself for class president and being beaten 50 times by his teacher after failing to answer a math question.

Upon commencing high school education, Malo received a church fellowship to study theology at the Satya Wacana Christian University, and the Jakarta Theological Seminary.

As secretary general, Malo became one of the key figures of the anti-Sukarno student protests, although not as prominent as other GMKI members. Due to his high position in GMKI, Malo frequently travelled to other provinces to provide instruction to GMKI branches. His instructional speeches to these branches were mostly inspired by his father's sermons. He served as secretary general until the 11th congress, which was held in Makale from 17 to 30 September 1967.

Academic career Upon receiving his doctorate, Malo joined the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Indonesia (UI) and became a sociology lecturer. He was well-liked by student and received a "most favorite" lecturer award from the students. He was installed by Nugroho for a second term on 23 February 1985, a few months before Nugroho's death.

As dean, Malo oversaw major changes to the faculty's management and structure. Early in his term, the faculty's name was changed to the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, in accordance with a presidential decree issued on 7 September 1982. He implemented an open management system and adjusted the faculty's academic system to the credit system. He initiated short term courses for provincial parliament members, which was part of a cooperation with the Department of Home Affairs training agency.

During his tenure, two new departments became part of the faculty. The anthropology department was transferred to the faculty from the faculty of letters on 27 June 1983 and the international relations department was established in July 1985 after previously being part of the political science department.

Later career After his deanship, Malo continued his activity in the academia and the government. He retained his leadership of the Inter-University Center for Social Sciences, a role that he had assumed since 1986. Malo was appointed as the expert staff for socio-economic affairs to the Coordinating Minister for Economics, Finance, Industry and Development Supervision Radius Prawiro in 1989. Outside UI and the government, Malo established the Widuri School of Social and Political Sciences and its supporting foundation, the Widuri Foundation. Malo became the chairman of the school's postgraduate programme. Shortly after the party was formed, the government issued a regulation which banned civil servants from joining political parties, and Malo resigned from the civil service in early 1999.

The party was registered to contest in the 1999 Indonesian legislative election on 7 June 1999, becoming one of the three Christian parties to participate in the election and the only Christian party to not explicitly mention Christianity in its name.

Malo's notability in his hometown garnered a significant number of votes, with 31.2% of votes from his hometown in West Waijewa (Wewewa) subdistrict, and 17,000 votes from West Sumba. and a library at the Widuri School of Social and Political Sciences is named after him.