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Lambung Mangkurat University

university in Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1896627
Source-derived summary

Lambung Mangkurat University (Indonesian: Universitas Lambung Mangkurat) is a public university in Banjarmasin and Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is established on September 1, 1958. Its current rector is Prof. Dr. Ahmad Alim Bachri. It is named after Lambung Mangkurat, the first Negara Dipa's patih (prime minister).

Schools

The university has 10 faculties.

Banjarmasin campus

Faculty of Education

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Economics

Faculty of Social and Politics Sciences

Faculty of Medicine (Departments of Medicine and Dentistry)

Department of Architecture (under Faculty of Engineering)

Banjarbaru campus

Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

Faculty of Engineering (all departments include Architecture)

Faculty of Agriculture

Faculty of Forestry

Faculty of Fishery

Faculty of Medicine (Departments of Psychology, Public Health and Nursery)

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Since 2011, the Department of Medicine and Dentistry (Faculty of Medicine) has been moved to a new campus in Banjarmasin, adjacent to Duta Mall.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Lambung Mangkurat University” as university in Indonesia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lambung, Mangkurat and University.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2011—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1958, 1960-01-01, 1958-09-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lambung, Mangkurat and University providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Lambung Mangkurat University”, the useful work is to connect “university in Indonesia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1896627. VIAF identifies the subject as 157104224. The Library of Congress control number is n80076166. Authority coordinates are -3.298, 114.586. 5 of 7 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 2011.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Lambung Mangkurat University” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.