AC21 International Graduate School 2017 Held at Gadjah Mada University
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
October 2017, Volume 24 AC21 International Graduate School 2017 Held at Gadjah Mada University Contents: "Indigenous Root and Modern Approach for Resilient 内容 Society" 目次項目が見つかりません。 An epilogue of the 2017 AC21 International Graduate AC21 International Graduate School (IGS 2017) School 2017 Held at Gadjah Mada University...................... 1 I Made Andi Arsana Head of Office of International Affairs Participants' Voices in AC21 International Graduate School Gadjah Mada University 2017 ....................................... 3 Student Report 1 ...................... 3 Student Report 2 ...................... 3 e, at Gadjah Mada University, Student Report 3 ...................... 4 were honored to be the host of W the 2017 AC21 Steering Com- APAIE 2017 at Kaohsiung, mittee Meeting (STC) and the International Taiwan .................................... 5 Graduate School (IGS) in July 2017. The AC21 Special Project Fund programs went well with enthusiastic partic- 2017: Three Proposals selected ipants. Not only the participants, but we, the ............................................... 5 organizing committee, too, obtained a lot of NAFSA 2017 .......................... 6 benefits from the organization. The 9th AC21 International Forum to be organized by Jilin It was clearly noted by the Rector of Gadjah University, Changchun, China 7 Mada University during the opening of the IGS 2017 that collaborative efforts must be izing committee of the IGS 2017. The en- Upcoming AC21 Activities and Events .................................... 8 in place to deal with transnational issues fac- thusiasm of all parties was well captured in ing the society nowadays. It appears that the almost every moment during the event, AC21 General Secretariat message was well received by participants, manifesting the message of the rector. Activities (May 2017 – Sep 2017) ...................................... 8 lecturers, professors, officials and the organ- It was a great honor for Gadjah Mada Uni- AC21 Members ...................... 8 versity to have been trusted as the host of the 2017 event. With great support from the AC21 secretariat the organizing committee managed to gather 18 delegation members from eight countries for the STC meeting, 44 participants for IGS and six professors for lectures during the program. Not only 1 that, the involvement of a number of academics from UGM was also Chancellor, Nanjing University), and Prof. Zullies Ikawati (Faculty a positive contribution to the program. The IGS 2017, which facili- of Pharmacy, UGM). In addition, participants were also taken to visit tated the interaction among people from different discipline, was per- key relevant industries in Yogyakarta, including PIAT, the one man- fectly in line with UGM's vision towards promotion of trans-discipli- aged by Gadjah Mada University. The visits certainly provided par- nary research. ticipants with a better understanding on the three lecture themes. Three days of lectures were conducted during the IGS, which covers It was quite notable that participants enjoyed the program and they three different themes: Sustainable Agricultural Project Study, Tech- had learned a lot from each other. As a member institution of AC21, nology for Sustainable Development and Community Resilience, and Gadjah Mada University views that the program has contributed pos- Indigenous-based Health Product. The lecturers involved in the de- itively to build awareness and understanding among participants re- livery of three themes were Prof. Shogo Matsumoto (Graduate garding the need and importance of collaboration and cooperation be- School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University), Dr. Murtin- yond borders. Having said that, we are confident that AC21 will re- ingrum (Faculty of Agricultural Technology, UGM), Prof. Lothar main to play important role in fostering international collaboration in Kroll (Dean for Research, International Relations and Gender, Chem- education sector. We look forward to fostering collaboration with all nitz University of Technology), Prof. Irfan Dwidya Prijambada (Di- individual members of AC21 and also with AC21 as a consortium rector of Community Service, UGM), Prof. Chen Yu Zhang (Vice- . 2 Vol. 24 Participants' Voices in AC21 International Graduate School 2017 Student Report 1 Ibrahim Eissa, Nagoya University had a great honor supported by a field tour to to represent understand the agriculture recycling I Nagoya University process to produce biogas. In the at AC21 International coomunity service program, we Graduate School 2017. realized the university role to serve This event was held at the community through visiting a Universitas Gadjah local cacao plantation, where they Mada from July 10-15, produced high purity cacao chocolate. 2017 in Indonesia (the land of harmony The last pillar was seminars for traditional and diversity). herbal medicine and internship at Merapi for agriculture, community, and health Once, I left Nagoya, the questions Herbal traditional company. We divided us products for Sustainable Development. followed one by one to storm my brain. into four groups to make a traditional The Last day was amazing by visiting the But, when I arrived at Yogyakarta airport, Indonesian herbal medicine called Jamu magnificent Borobudur temple is the my feeling became better because of one that consisted of ginger mixed with water world's biggest Buddhist monument. of the organizers wait for me. On the first and sugar, prepared by local technique. Overall, the summer school was really well day, I met around 46 students who came The competition among groups started to organized. I enjoyed with an intercultural from different continents of the world. prepare Jamu. In these moments, I exchange. The diversity between students When the organizers gave us a green bag remembered my undergraduate chemistry was really an effective point and we with green t-shirt, I realized the course when the ginger become exchanged our contacts. After all, I am relationship between the green color and crystallized! At the end of the event, we really surprised because of one of the summer school theme that entitled participated in group discussion to participated student has been accepted to "Community and indigenous-based summarize the benefits and the key words continue his Ph.D. in Japan. Finally, I technology for sustainable development would like to thanks the organizers, AC21 towards resilient society". Three days staff and all the participants (my friends lectures focused on three pillars the now) who made successful International agriculture sustainability, community Graduate School 2017. service and Indigenous-based health product. The agriculture sustainability pillar was Student Report 2 Anne-Coralie Bonnaire, Chemnitz University of Technology limate change, globalisation and resiliency in the realms of research and service somewhere on one of the over migration are three great science, as well as in students' life. 11,000 Indonesian islands, students work C challenges of this century. The Impressive for all participants in IGS was for one community and receive three credit AC21 International Graduate School 2017 the concept of "Community Services", points. Students may be sent to work on held at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) which each student at UGM should fulfil existing projects or they may help develop in Indonesia questioned those topics and before graduating. For their two months of new ones, for example the improvement of offered answers to us, centering around the family gold mining; however, these theme "Community and Indigenous-based projects are always developed and always Technology for Sustainable Development take place with and for the local towards Resilient Society". The solutions community. were Indonesian-made and community- During the IGS 2017, two community based, as the UGM's leitmotiv "Locally services projects were visited: the Rooted, Globally Respected" implies the Wanagama Forest, which was created by prioritization of working with the local the University and expanded with the help population for their needs and their will, of the local communities, and the cocoa along with the development of a global plantation in Gunung Kidul (East of 3 Vol. 24 Indonesian lifestyles. Practical learning As Olivia Cousins, one of the participants, was completed on site via lectures in the noted, "Community, Technology, and morning given by international professors. Sustainability" were the three keywords of Lectures by UGM professors, including Dr. the week, where students from around the Murtiningrum and Dr. Ir. Bambang world learned together from each other, Suhartanto, gave insights into the urge to became friends and planted plants to make develop strategies for better water and land the world a better place to live. Getting to management, as the Indonesian (and know the Indonesian culture, along with world) population keeps growing but (or those of the participants', was also a main more likely therefore) the resources and learning outcome ofthe IGS. Excursions to Yogyakarta). This cocoa-plantation grows (cultivable) land capacities keep main Indonesian cultural sites were also cocoa beans, processes them and produces regressing: more people need to build a part of the programme and allowed us to chocolate under its own name (Gun-Kid house, therefore less land can be better understand Indonesian history and Cokelat). All the processes, from plants' cultivated; yet more people need to be fed. needs. Those three words are the answer to