BUDI NURANI RUCHJANA
Budi Nurani Ruchjana
For a woman the opportunities in Indonesia are fewer than for men.
[...] At our department, I was the first woman to become a dean
(2012 – 2016) and we once had a female rector at our university. I was
the second female president of the Indonesian Mathematical Society,
and did two terms (2012 – 2016).
[My father] wanted me to become a doctor but instead I chose to do
laboratory such as dissecting an animal or carrying out chemical
experiments. When I did my Bachelor degree, I was told that one could
not make money with mathematics, at best you only could become a
teacher. However, I stuck to mathematics all the same