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World News & Perspectives Photos: West Indonesian Union PRESIDENTIAL MEETING: General Conference president Pastor Ted N. C. Wilson, left, greets President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, near the capital of Jakarta, on February 12, 2013. Wilson expressed gratitude to President Yudhoyono for the religious liberty granted in Indonesia, and pledged the help of Seventh-day Adventists in the nation. ■■SOUTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC Wilson Meets Indonesia’s President Yudhoyono, Praises Religious Freedom Pledges cooperation to help people in need By MARK A. KELLNEr, news editor “It is an honor for us to be able to be in Indonesia and a good experience to meet with the president to share the views of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in helping the people,” Ted N. C. Wilson, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, said to reporters after an audience with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base near the capital of Jakarta, on February 12, 2013. Wilson is visiting Indonesia as part of celebrations of more than a century of Seventh-day Adventist work in the country. There are 1,547 Adventist congregations in Indonesia, and approximately 250,000 baptized members in the nation, whose majority population is Muslim. “We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute in this country, and I am grateful to the president for the religious freedom granted to groups in Indonesia,” Wilson added. “It’s amazing to hear that Indonesia is a country with the second-highest economic growth. But President Yudhoyono is also aware of the need to do more things for his people,” Wilson explained. The General Conference president said the church is committed to help in various ways, whether social, physical, emotional, or spiritual, as well as assisting in disaster relief on the island of Sumatra after the 2004 tsunami. “We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute in this country,” he said. The Seventh-day Adventist Church operates a number of facilities that help the Indonesian people, including Adventist hospitals in Bandung, Bandar Lampung, Manado and Medan. The church also operates 372 schools and three universities in Indonesia. “We hope to help the people of Indonesia to solve a number of problems. God understands what is best for our lives,” Wilson concluded. During his visit, Wilson helped inaugurate a new wing of the Manado Adventist Hospital on February 15. The new three-story facility, which first opened in 2008, provides an additional 55 beds. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the governor of the North Sulawesi Province, Sinyo Harry Sarundayang, said the additional facility was a response to primary health development goals of increasing longevity, reducing the infant mortality rate, and reducing the prevalence of malnutrition. “Optimizing private hospitals is our priority,” Sarundayang said. “Manado Adventist Hospital is a representation of strengthening community health resources and becomes the right answer to continuous development of welfare,” he said. The provincial government pledged US$400,000 for radio-diagnostic equipment and a new ambulance unit. The hospital has grown to employ 265 people, up from 25 employees when it opened five years ago. On February 13 Wilson visited Bandung Adventist Hospital, which is located about 90 miles southeast of Jakarta, and considered one of the top hospitals in West Java. Founded in 1950, it now has 230 beds and employs 700 people. A new $7 million building 8 (200) | www.AdventistReview.org | March 14, 2013
facility was inaugurated last year. Wilson also visited Indonesian Adventist University in Bandung, which was first opened in 1929. He helped to dedicate ground for the construction of a new science center, and later addressed an assembly in the university’s Alumni Center. “You are an important part of the worldwide Adventist education process,” Wilson told a group of 2,000 faculty, staff, and students. “You may seek knowledge of science and philosophy and all other bodies of knowledge, but remember that the foundation of all true knowledge is the knowledge of God,” he said. The Adventist Church also operates hospitals in Bandar Lampung and Medan. Wilson was joined on the trip by his wife, Nancy; Alberto Gulfan, president of the Adventist Church’s Southern Asia-Pacific Division; Joseph Peranginangin, president of the West Indonesia HOSPITAL INAUGURATION: Nancy Wilson, left, joined her husband, Ted N. C. Wilson, at the dedication of a new wing for Manado Adventist Hospital. At right is the Honorable Sinyo Harry Sarundajang, governor of North Sulawesi province in Indonesia. Union; Noldy Sakul, president of the East Indonesia Union; and T. B. Silalahi, a retired Army lieutenant general who is an Adventist Church member. n —with information from local media reports and Adventist News Network ■■NORTH AMERICA Adventist Schools, Security Leaders, Unite to Keep Campuses Safe PASS group to hold conference in July 2013 By KERI SUAREZ, media relations specialist, Andrews University, writing from Berrien Springs, Michigan As national debates intensify over how to effectively safeguard our educational institutions against future acts of violence, Professional Adventists for Safety and Security (PASS) is preparing for their third annual meeting, to be held in July 2013. PASS was organized in 2010 to bring together safety and security professionals serving at Seventhday Adventist schools, hospitals, and other institutions to discuss best practices, provide community resources, and maintain an Adventist network of security personnel to allow the distribution of important information. To date, there has been active involvement in PASS from campus security directors of Oakwood Adventist University, Southern Adventist University, Andrews University, and Loma Linda University, as well as the directors of security at ADRA, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the Review and Herald Publishing Association. For years there were discussions about the need to establish an organization that would connect the various safety and security departments at Adventist institutions. Although there was an acknowledged need for communication between the different entities, attempts to form a professional network never moved beyond preliminary stages. When Dale Hodges became the director of the Office of Campus Safety at Andrews University, he was concerned about the negative perceptions that had developed between students and campus safety. The term “veggie cop,” a slang term commonly used in Adventist settings to refer to safety or security professionals, was new to Hodges. As a retired homicide detective, Hodges wanted to repair any negative perceptions while building the professionalism of his office. “It was my desire to establish standards of service and levels of professionalism that had not been seen before,” he says, hoping such improve- www.AdventistReview.org | March 14, 2013 | (201) 9
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