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Quick facts
- Born
- 6 November 1963
- Birthplace
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nationality
- Not independently established
- Known for
- Physics educator.
- Research collaborator
- Franz Gross
- Educational project
- TOFI
Why this life matters
His career spans theoretical research, student training and educational institutions; these activities require different kinds of evidence about their results.
Timeline
Key moments
Original report
Joint work with Gross.
Educational leadership
Multimedia Nusantara rector.
Governance
Dated Telkom board decisions.
Physics training and theoretical research
Surya studied physics at Universitas Indonesia and pursued graduate study at William and Mary.
The dated corporate profile records his doctorate in 1994.
With Franz Gross, he developed a relativistic pionโnucleon scattering model documented in a 1992 report.
The model is a substantive part of the early career, not merely a credential preceding educational work. The guide uses one inspected kinematic relation, without pretending to reproduce the modelโs integral-equation calculation.
Teaching and student development
The university prospectus describes theoretical-physics consulting in Virginia, a return to teaching nuclear physics and the TOFI project for physics-competition students.
Training a competition team and improving broad access to education are different undertakings. A prospectus states an institutionโs ambitions; it does not independently measure the effect of every programme.
Sources for this section: [2]
Leading educational institutions
The issuer profile lists rector roles at Multimedia Nusantara University in 2007โ2010, STKIP Surya in 2010โ2012 and Surya University from 2013.
These stages show sustained organisational work alongside teaching. The open-ended entry in a historical profile is not used as proof that the same office continued unchanged into 2026.
Sources for this section: [1]
Advisory and governance work
The 2025 annual-report profile records ministerial advisory work in 2018โ2025. It lists 27 May 2025 as the appointment basis and 12 December 2025 as the dismissal basis for the Telkom independent-commissioner role.
Academic expertise, advice and board membership involve different responsibilities. Keeping those roles and dates separate gives a fuller account of the later career without implying that scientific qualifications establish every institutional outcome.
Sources for this section: [3]
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Yohanes Surya
- Is a historical open-ended appointment treated as current?
- No. The biography uses dated records and does not infer an uninterrupted present office.
- Does the energy exercise reproduce the scattering model?
- No. It uses one inspected kinematic relation with expressly invented masses and energies.
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Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. PT Solusi Bangun Indonesia / issuer presentation retained by StockbitYohanes Surya: public-expose profile, printed41
- 2. Surya University prospectusYohanes Surya: founder profile, selected prospectus spread
- 3. PT Telkom Indonesia, 2025 annual report filed May 2026 / SECYohanes Surya: 2025 annual-report profile, printed73
Only the actual indexed profile was read, not the full annual report. The doctorate is described generically because degree-field wording varies across records.
- 4. Franz Gross and Yohanes Surya / CEBAF-TH-92-19,1992; Phys.Rev.C47,1993Unitary, relativistic resonance model for pi-N scattering
Only selected full sheets were read; the complete report and later journal article are not claimed as consumed.
