Ismet Ahmad
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Ismet Ahmed | |
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| Member of the People's Representative Council | |
| In office 1 October 2009 – 1 October 2014 | |
| Constituency | South Kalimantan I |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 February 1945 Hulu Sungai Selatan, South Kalimantan, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies |
| Died | 25 August 2023 (aged 78) |
| Party | PAN |
| Spouse | Fauthyda Ismet |
| Children | 2 |
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Ismet Ahmed (26 February 1945 – 25 August 2023) was an Indonesian academic, bureaucrat, and politician. He was a member of the People's Representative Council from 2009 until 2014. He also served as a bureaucrat in the South Kalimantan government and as a professor of agricultural economics at Lambung Mangkurat University.
Ismet Ahmad was born in Negara, a small town in the South Hulu Sungai locality, on 26 February 1945, as the son of Ahmad and Majehan.[1] Upon completing his primary education at a local state elementary school in 1957, he moved to Barabai in Central Hulu Sungai, where he attended a state junior high school. He then moved to Banjarbaru and enrolled at a state agricultural high school. He received his high school diploma in 1963 and continued to study agriculture at the Lambung Mangkurat University (ULM) in Banjarbaru. During his time in the university, Ismet joined the Suryanata student regiment, a paramilitary student organization.[2][3]
Ismet graduated from the university in 1970 and began teaching at his alma mater. Four years later, in 1974 Ismet received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. After completing his postgraduate studies in 1976, Ismet became the vice dean of ULM's agriculture faculty. He resigned from the position two years later after receiving scholarship to study at the University of Florida from the Rockefeller Foundation's Agricultural Development Council. He became a member of a Muslim student union in the university and received his Ph.D. in economic development in 1982.[2][3]
Upon returning from the United States, ULM's rector appointed him as the dean of the agriculture faculty. During his tenure as faculty dean, he founded the agricultural socioeconomics major (later renamed to agribusiness).[4] Ismet retained his position as dean until 1989.[2][3]