{"id":13079,"date":"2022-01-20T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:23:37","slug":"najib-complaints-of-mit-indonesian-campus-based-on-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13079","title":{"rendered":"Najib’s complaints of MIT Indonesian campus based on fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kuala Lumpur, Jan 20 — Najib Razak’s claims, based on unverified news that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is opening a joint campus with a leading Chinese university in Indonesia has turned out to be fake, with the US university denying the claim published in Indonesian media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former prime minister said the decision by MIT and Tsinghua University to set up a campus in Bali showed that the two leading universities preferred Indonesia over Malaysia, adding that it was a setback for the country\u2019s vision of becoming an international educational hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then said that during his time as education minister and prime minister, a total of 11 foreign universities had set up campuses in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHundreds of thousands of Malaysian students benefited at the same time, saving on their education costs,\u201d <\/em>Najib said in a Facebook post yesterday, adding that the plan to make Malaysia a center of learning appeared to have stopped after his fall from power in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Najib said the idea by former prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to bring in a Japanese university never received any follow-up either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope the current education minister will work to attract the University of Tsukuba and other world-renowned universities to set up a campus in Malaysia so that the country can continue its aspiration to become an international education hub and grow its human capital.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MIT denies the report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a response to the claims made in the Indonesian media, MIT said it had never inked any cooperation with Tsinghua University to set up a campus in Bali, adding that a university complex being built on the holiday island had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last December, Bali\u2019s former governor Made Mangku Pastika told the press that a new technological university was under construction in cooperation with the two universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is understood that the university, Upaya Indonesia Damai, would be inaugurated by President Joko Widodo sometime in the middle of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MIT has already established educational cooperation with Malaysia thru the formation of the Asia Business School (ASB), a partnership between Bank Negara Malaysia and the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASB\u2019s faculty and board members also comprise leading American academics, including MIT Sloan founding president Charles Fine, Athanasios Orphanides, Richard Schmalensee, and David Schmittlein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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