UIN Sunan Kalijaga's Medicine Study Program was officially established following the issuance of a Decree from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, and was subsequently launched by Indonesia's Minister of Religious Affairs, Prof. Dr. Nasaruddin Umar. Ahead of the start of classes for its first cohort of 50 students, UIN Sunan Kalijaga is now strengthening its institutional readiness to ensure every stage of medical education runs in a well-directed and sustainable manner.

As part of institutional arrangements during this transition period, while awaiting the issuance of regulations on the university's Organizational Structure and Working Procedures (SOTK), UIN Sunan Kalijaga Rector Prof. Noorhaidi Hasan issued Interim Duty Assignment Letters to a number of lecturers and education staff. This planned step was taken to ensure that leadership functions, governance, and educational services within the Medicine Study Program run in an orderly and sustained manner.

The assignment letters were presented on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, in the 1st Floor PAU Meeting Room at UIN Sunan Kalijaga. The event was attended by the Vice Rectors, deans, the Director of the Graduate School, and all lecturers and education staff of the Medicine Study Program.

In his remarks, Prof. Noorhaidi affirmed that this strengthening of governance is a concrete step by UIN Sunan Kalijaga to support the education of its first cohort of 50 students. Through a clear division of tasks and responsibilities, the university is ensuring that academic services, administration, laboratory work, student affairs, and quality assurance all run in a coordinated way at every stage of medical education.

“We have prepared every stage of medical education as thoroughly as possible so that the learning process can run smoothly,” he said.

Alongside this step, UIN Sunan Kalijaga is also prioritizing a revision of the Ministerial Regulation of Religious Affairs (PMA) that forms the basis of the university's SOTK. This regulatory revision is needed to formally position the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as an integral part of UIN Sunan Kalijaga's institutional structure.

While that regulatory process is underway, the appointment of interim duty officers serves as an initial foundation to ensure that leadership, academic services, administration, finance, student affairs, cooperation, laboratory management, and quality assurance can all continue to function.

The Rector reminded all interim duty officers to carry out their responsibilities with full accountability and to remain consistently oriented toward students' best interests. “Give your very best for the future doctors we are training,” he said.

Among the lecturers and education staff issued Interim Duty Assignment Letters were dr. Murtafiqoh Hasanah, S.P.; dr. Adina Silviasari, Sp.Kj.; Dr. Agus Mulyanto, S.Si., M.Kom., ASEAN Eng.; and Prof. Dr. Imam Machali, S.Pd.I., M.Pd.

Assignment letters were also issued to dr. Ilma Rizkia Rahma, M.Biomed., as Interim Head of the Laboratory; Mukhbarotul Haqqoniyaty, A.Md., as Interim Head of the Academic and Finance Team; Awan Pramudya Wardani, S.Kom., as Interim Member of the General Administration Team; and dr. Likuida Yona R., M.Biomed., as Interim Quality System Controller for the Medicine Study Program.

This step is expected to lay the groundwork for delivering professional medical education, while also ensuring the first cohort of 50 students receives optimal educational service at every stage of their studies. (humassk)