Arbi Sanit (4 June 1939 – 25 March 2021)
was an Indonesian political scientist and lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Indonesia
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. He wrote several books on the Indonesian political system.
Early life
Sanit was born in
Painan,
West Sumatra
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. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political sciences from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, in 1969. He also studied at the
University of Wisconsin
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from 1973–1974.
References
1939 births
Minangkabau people
2021 deaths
People from Pesisir Selatan Regency
Indonesian political scientists
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Academic staff of the University of Indonesia
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