Aliyah Rasyid

Aliyah Rasyid
Rasyid with her sons Anies and Abdillah Baswedan in 2019
Born	(1940-03-20) 20 March 1940 Kuningan, West Java, Dutch East Indies
Alma mater	Padjadjaran University State University of Jakarta
Occupation	Academic
Spouse	Rasyid Baswedan ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	4, including Anies Baswedan
Relatives	Abdurrahman Baswedan (father-in-law)

Aliyah Rasyid (born 20 March 1940) is an Indonesian academic.

Early life and education

Rasyid was born on 20 March 1940 in Kuningan, West Java. She graduated from SD Negeri 1 Cipicung in 1952 and middle high school in Kuningan, and moved to Cirebon to attend high school at SMA Negeri 1 Cirebon because there were no high school in her hometown, in 1956. At that time, sending a girl to school and leaving her hometown was taboo. However, her father still sent her to Cirebon to live with her relatives so she could continue her high school education and she graduated from high school in 1958. Rasyid has a strong desire to become a teacher in the future. Although accepted into the faculty of economics and law, he still chose the field of education. Rasyid then decided to study at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at Padjadjaran University, and earned her master's degree from State University of Jakarta in 1982. She then earned her Ph.D from the same university in 1990 at the age of 50.

Personal life

Rasyid was married to Rasyid Baswedan, a lecturer, in 1968. They had three sons, Anies (born 1969), Ridwan (1973–2017), and Abdillah Baswedan (born 1980), and a daughter, Haifa Baswedan (1971–1978).

In 2015, Rasyid suffered from calcification in her knees that required surgery so that the bones in both her legs had to be replaced with titanium. Since then she has not been able to walk far and must use a wheelchair.

Career

After getting married, even though she lived in Yogyakarta, Rasyid still taught at the Indonesia University of Education. While pregnant with her first child, Anies Baswedan, she even took the train from Yogyakarta to Bandung every week to teach, before she was finally transferred to become a lecturer at Yogyakarta State University. She then became a lecturer there from 1970 until retired in 2005. During her service, the university honored Rasyid by conferring the title of emeritus Professor. Despite having retired, she is still asked by the university to continue teaching until the maximum age limit, which is 75 years. Even though Rasyid has retired from Yogyakarta State University, she is still actively involved in various academic activities such as teaching and supervising dissertations at various universities in Yogyakarta in the field of human resource management. She was appointed as associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences Education at Yogyakarta State University and was appointed as professor emeritus of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics at Yogyakarta State University and actively taught until 2015. In addition to teaching at Yogyakarta State University, Rasyid is also recorded as still actively teaching as a lecturer in educational management at the Postgraduate School of Ahmad Dahlan University in Yogyakarta.

In addition to being famous for her extraordinary dedication in the field of education, Rasyid is a figure who has high social awareness. She is actively involved in various social, religious, and community activities in Yogyakarta. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Hikmah Dharma Assembly of the Islamic Women's Association (DPW) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. During her participation in the Dharma Persatuan Wanita Islam, Rasyid was active in leading the distribution of scholarships for students and students from underprivileged families for more than 3 decades.