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In 1964-1970 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sardjito as rector, UII developed and expanded its wings at the central level and opened branches in the regions, as well as opened exact faculties at UII. One of them is the opening of the Faculty of Medicine at UII Surakarta. The Faculty of Medicine, UII Surakarta, was established on December 9, 1964, which was initiated by Prof. Dr. Sardjito, Prof KHA Kahar Muzakir, Dr Soekiman Wijosandjojo and KH Imam Ghazali.
In 1967 the Director General of Higher Education issued a decree No. 164 of 1967 concerning "Requirements for the Development of Private Higher Education", the implementation of which was explained in a written explanation from the head of the Bureau of Private Higher Education and Service of the Directorate General of Higher Education no 1223/PT/III/1968 dated December 3, 1968. Based on this decision, UII branches in the regions had to be released, even though they had been initiated and nurtured for a long time. Then some UII branches in the regions disbanded, after sending their students to UII Yogyakarta center, some became autonomous tertiary institutions, or merged with similar faculties in the area concerned. Likewise, the Faculty of Medicine, UII Surakarta merged with the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta.

During its liquidation, it turned out that the Faculty of Medicine, UII, Surakarta, found it difficult to break away from UII, not all of them accepted it. Many want to continue their studies as UII medical students. Finally, the leadership staff of the Surakarta Medical Faculty proposed to the board of waqf boards that the UII Medical Faculty be moved to Yogyakarta.

Until the end of 1974, the Medical Faculty of UII was still officially running. In 1975, because the facilities were still limited and especially because of a government regulation regarding the administration of private medical faculties, students who had already been accepted were transferred to the Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta Faculty of Medicine. Since then UII has no medical faculty.

Later in its development, driven by the desire to take part in improving health status, as well as the high demand for doctors in Indonesia, UII plans to open another medical faculty in the first decade of the 21st century. With a hard struggle, FK UII finally got permission to organize a medical education program based on the letter from the Director General of Higher Education Ministry of National Education no 3084/D/T/2001. Since September 3, 2001 the learning process has begun to be implemented at the Faculty of Medicine, UII.

[:en]Established in between 1964-1970 during Prof. Dr. Sardjito serving a period as a Rector, Universitas Islam Indonesia developed rapidly both in the hub and the regions around Indonesia. The university began to inaugurate exact sciences faculties. One of them is the UII Medical School located in Surakarta. The Medical School was established on 9 December 1964, initiated by Prof. Dr. Sardjito, Prof. KHA Kahar Muzakir, Dr. Soekiman Wijosandjojo and KH Imam Ghazali.

In 1967, the Director General of Higher Education issued an order No.164 of 1967 regarding the “Requirements of Private University Management”, to be set out particularly in a written instruction issued by the Head of Private University Bureau and the Official of the Directorate General of Higher Education No.1223/PT/III/1968 on 3 December 1968. The order resulted in the disseverance of UII long nurtured regional branches. Some of the regional branches are gone through dismissal soon after transferring their prospective students to the UII main campus in Yogyakarta, while the rest of them are transforming into a new private university or consolidating to a local university sharing a similar branch of knowledge. similarly what happened to UII Medical School at Surakarta which then consolidated with Universitas Sebelas Maret Medical School (UNS) Surakarta.

UII Medical School Surakarta has a hard time to adjust their condition post the dismissal. Many of the students are eager to continue their studies as part of UII Medical students. This has caused the leader of the Medical School Surakarta to offer a notion of translocating the UII Faculty of Medicine to Yogyakarta.

The Medical School of UII was officially run until the late 197, however in 1975 due to lack of supportive facilities and mainly because of the government policy on the management of the private medical school, every prospective student is assigned to Universitas Sebelas Maret Medical School (UNS) Surakarta. Since then UII no longer maintains the Faculty of Medicine.

Subsequently motivated to improve Indonesian health care and fulfill the high demands of doctors, UII set up a goal to reestablish their Faculty of Medicine during the first decade of the 21st century. All the efforts finally paid when UII granted the permission to reestablish their Faculty of Medicine through the letter of Director General of Higher Education Ministry of Education No. 3084/D/T/2001. Hence, since 3 September 2001 the UII Faculty of Medicine recommends their learning activity.[:]