Petra Christian University is a major private university in Indonesia. It has about 9,900 students and 6 faculties. The founding of Petra Christian University cannot be separated from the role of Petra Christian Education and Teaching Association (PPPK Petra). The latter was a Christian association founded in 1951 aiming at providing education from kindergarten to high school level. The longing to give a wider chance for people to get higher education encouraged the officials of this association to set up a university. To realize that ideal, an Adhoc committee was set up, namely Preparatory Committee for Planning the University Founding, which was given the task to prepare anything related to the founding of a Christian university. On September 22, 1961, right on the tenth anniversary of PPPK, it was officially announced that Petra Christian University was founded with the Faculty of Letters as the first faculty. One year later, in 1962, the Faculty of Civil Engineering was established.