Dedicated Scholar 2017

Kompas/Wawan H Prabowo

Adi Andojo Soetjipto

When the Kompas newspaper introduced an award with the word “scholar” in 2008, there was no intention of oversimplifying the term “scholar”. Kompas also did not want to become trapped in the discourse of differentiating between scholars, intellectuals, observers, experts, academic scholars and non-academic scholars.

The initiator of this award, Kompas president commissioner Jakob Oetama, initially only wanted to express his gratitude to the newspaper’s writers and contributors for pages 4-5, which was later moved to pages 6-7. Appreciation was also given to those that persevered in their respective expertise and wanted to share it with the people amid a lack of media exposure.