(July, 29th 2022) International Office of Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa held Research Talk 12 with theme “Digital Technology Supporting English Learning Among Indonesian University Students”. PELITA invited Didin Nuruddin Hidayat, M.A., Ph.D. from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta as the speaker and Dr. Siti Suharsih from Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa as the moderator. The event was online via zoom platform.
Didin Nuruddin Hidayat, M. A., Ph.D is a lecturer at Department of English Education and language instructor at Center for Languages Development, State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta. He completed his master degree in TESOL and Ph.D degree in Education from The University of Canberra, Australia. He explained Digital Technology show that online activities, skills, and perceived usefulness were positively correlated with positive experiences of learning English online. In particular, the perceived usefulness of the Internet and the ability to use different functions of digital devices and applications had a stronger correlation with increased benefits of online English learning.
Research Talk 12 Online participants were from University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa’s students and UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta’s students. Estimated 45 Participants were joined in zoom. This program purpose to encourage and enrich the knowledge development of Indonesian University Students.
(June, 6th 2022) International Office of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University (PELITA) presented Dr. Alex Lechner, an Australian Associate Professor and landscape ecologist, as a speaker at the Visiting Scholar themed “Global Business and Sustainability”, followed by a Guest Lecture entitled “Weaving Teacher and Researching: Going Beyond the ‘Local Academics’ stigma” on Monday (6/06). /2022) at the Integrated Lecture Building, Untirta Sindangsari’s Campus. The event was opened by the Rector of Untirta, Prof. Dr. Ir. H. Fatah Sulaiman, ST, MT. as he stated this is the first time PELITA has held it face-to-face since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The two events are a form of implementation of the signing of the MoU and cooperation agreement by Untirta, Monash University Australia, and Monash University Indonesia on January 19, 2022 ago. Therefore, the Head of International Office, Dr. Udi Samanhudi, Ph. D ensures that this event will become a regular agenda to support knowledge exchange, develop insight, build perspectives, and increase the self-confidence of Untirta students and lecturers.
“Through sharing like this, hopefully the knowledge of students and lecturers will be more developed. Mindset or the way we see things we try to synchronize. What we still lack, we enrich with what they already have. If you have been exposed to many people from various backgrounds, we hope that students have a better perspective. The more we bring in lecturers from abroad who are credible from high-ranking campuses, the confidence of students and lecturers will also increase.” Obviously Udi.
“The implementation of the Guest Lecture and Visiting Scholar activities this time is a sub-program of Global Academic Mobility (GOAL) in the form of packaging and branding programs and strategies aimed at providing an international outlook as well as increasing experience and academic networks to Untirta as an institution and all its academics.” stated Eko Supriyanto, S.Kom., MM., M.Ak as the Sub Coordinator of Program, Partnership, and PLI Administration. Global Academic Mobility (GOAL) itself is one of the ‘Panca Pelita’ namely the five main programs of PLI Untirta as part of implementing the internationalization acceleration program.
The Guest Lecture was attended by lecturers from each faculty at Untirta. The Visiting Scholar was attended by dozens of students from the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Untirta. Based on Udi’s statements, FEB students were presented because they studied fields of science that were relevant to the topics discussed. Meanwhile, FKIP students, such as English Language Education, came with an interest in learning English, especially directly from native speakers. Responding to the extraordinary enthusiasm of the participants, PELITA admitted that they would soon invite academics from the University of Nottingham for the next Guest Lecture.
Dr. Alex Lechner, who is currently working at Monash University Indonesia, said he was impressed by the enthusiasm of the students and lecturers who were responsive and active in asking questions. “It was a really exciting day. Both the students and lecturers were very dynamic, engaged, and interesting. I had lots of excellent questions and I generally had a lot of fun, so I’d be happy to do it again.” He smiled.
Regarding the topic he presented, Alex thought that lecturers and students, especially the younger generation, had a big role in voicing the dangers of climate change and the biodiversity crisis to the community. As the people who know and are most aware of this issue, Alex recommends students to act as leaders or agents of change so that they are able to communicate this issue even if it is in a small circle of family and friends. Meanwhile, he hopes that lecturers as researchers can intensify research in this field.
“I think both academics and students have a really important role in terms of communication and 1-on-1 with family and friends in order to communicate this big issue and how important they are. I think as students in their future jobs, they can look for roles where they can be leaders, where they can be change makers, where they can address this climate change and biodiversity impact. As a researcher, there’s a huge opportunity. We need a lot more research and information. So researchers have a huge role to play as change makers and leaders.” Obviously.
Alex assesses that dramatic changes related to climate change and the biodiversity crisis will occur in the next 10, 20, even 30 years, accompanied by new opportunities. He hopes that young students and lecturers can open themselves up to this change and opportunity because they will be the ones who will feel the impact.
“I hope Indonesian academics reflect on and take the perspective that Indonesia is indeed one of the key places where these challenges are around climate change, biodiversity, and socioeconomic development. So Indonesian academics have a key role in working in this area. So what I hope they do is take this perspective that western academics view Indonesia as this place where they’d love to research and love to do work. It’s an exciting place, dynamic place. I hope Indonesian researchers realize that.” he concluded. (SAC/ AAP/ VDF)
(24/05/2022) Pusat Layanan Internasional Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (PLI-UNTIRTA) bekerja sama dengan Lembaga Pengembangan Pendidikan Penjaminan Mutu (LP3M) Untirta mengadakan kegiatan berbagi informasi dan pengalaman secara daring via zoom di kegiatan “Sharing Session: PMM, IISMA dan ICT 2022.” Webinar ini mengundang Dr. Yudi Juniardi dari LP3M Untirta sebagai penanggungjawab PMM di UNTIRTA; Dr. Dina Rachmawati dari PLI –UNTIRTA sebagai penanggungjawab IISMA dan ICT di UNTIRTA; Tsabat Muhammad Abdillah mahasiswa Jurusan Metalurgi UNTIRTA sebagai IISMA Awardee National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), serta Tiara Fadia Savitri mahasiswa Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris UNTIRTA, ISMA Awardee Universti Sains Malaysia (USM). Peserta dari kegiatan daring ini merupakan mahasiswa untirta dan mahasiswa program pertukaran mahasiswa merdeka dengan jumlah keseluruhan 88 peserta. Tujuan dari webinar ini adalah berbagi informasi seputar PMM, IISMA dan ICT serta pengalaman dari Awardee IISMA 2022.
Dr. Yudi Juniardi menjelaskan tentang PMM (Pertukaran Mahasiswa Merdeka) adalah salah satu bentuk dari program merdeka belajar kampus merdeka yang memberikan kesempatan bagi mahasiswa untuk belajar dari lintas perguruan tinggi, provinsi, dan budaya. Dalam paparannya, Dr. Dina Rachmawati menerangkan bahwa IISMA (International Indonesian Student Mobility Awards) dan International Credit Transfer (ICT) merupakan program yang bertujuan untuk memberikan hak dan kesempatan bagi mahasiswa penerima beasiswa tersebut untuk mengembangkan kompetensi dan pengetahuan, serta memberikan pengalaman studi di perguruan tinggi luar negeri terbaik sebagai implementasi Program Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka dari Kemendikbudristek. Selain itu, kedua program tersebut diarahkan untuk memperluas jejaring para mahasiswa, mempersiapkan mereka agar dapat berkompetensi secara global dan menjadi Global Citizen (Warga Dunia).
(17/05/2022) Pusat Layanan Internasional Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (PELITA) mengadakan webinar dengan tema “Pemberdayaan Asosiasi BIPA Se-Banten. Kegiatan daring ini mengundang Dr. Niknik M. Kurtanto, M.Hum. sebagai pembicara pertama, beliau adalah praktisi BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia Penutur Asing) dan pendiri Kampung Bahasa Bloombank dan Dr. Ade Husnul Mawadah, M.Hum. sebagai pembicara kedua, beliau merupakan Dosen Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. Webinar ini dilaksanakan menggunakan aplikasi Zoom serta di buka oleh Dr. H. Aceng Hasani, M.Pd sebagai Wakil Rektor Bidang Kerjasama, Sistem Informasi, Penguatan Kemitraan dan Layanan Industri. Total peserta pada kegiatan ini berjumlah 144 peserta yang terdiri dari mahasiswa untirta, praktisi BIPA universitas-universitas yang ada di Banten serta Dosen Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. Tujuan dari kegiatan daring ini bertujuan untuk membagi pengalaman dan ilmu terhadap BIPA dan perkembangannya di Banten.
Ibu Niknik di sesi pertama menjelaskan tentang prestasi beliau, bagaimana beliau bisa mendirikan Kampung Bahasa Bloombank dan menerangkan peran serta guru dalam mengajar BIPA itu penting di kelas BIPA. Ibu Ade dalam sesi kedua memaparkan tentang Afiliasi Pengajar dan Pegiat Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (APPBIPA) adalah organisasi profesi yang beranggotakan pengajar BIPA dan pegiat BIPA baik di Indonesia maupun luar Indonesia. Misi utama APPBIPA adalah memartabatkan bahasa Indonesia dan memperkenalkan bahasa dan budaya Indonesia kepada orang asing.
(20/04/2022) Pusat Layanan Internasional Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa menggelar kegiatan daring Berbagi Cerita (GITA): Ramadhan di Negeri Orang. Acara ini mengundang Ina Indriana, SE., M. Si., Ph.D (Universitas Sains Malaysia) dan Eva Johan, Ph.D Candidate (LAW Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands). Peserta zoom terdiri dari 53 peserta yang merupakan Mahasiswa Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. Kegiatan ini diharapkan dapat memotivasi mahasiswa yang akan mengambil studi di luar negeri.Ibu Ina berbagi pengalamannya tentang suasana ramadhan di kampus Universitas Sains Malaysia. Keadaan sosial dan budaya melayu yang terasa ketika menjalankan puasa di Malaysia. Ibu Eva menceritakan pengalaman berpuasa di kampus Wageningen University yang ada di Belanda. Jam sahur dan berbuka yang berbeda dengan wilayah Asia serta lingkungan Eropa yang membuat puasa disana terasa berbeda.
(Thursday, March 31st 2022) International Office of Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa with Sampoerna University In Collaboration with English Department UNTIRTA held Research Talk #11 with topic “Vocabulary Profile and Lexical Bundles of EFL Academic Writing: A Corpus-based Study in English Teaching”. The event was held online via zoom meeting with 96 participants from UNTIRTA’s students and lecturers. The speaker was Christianus I Wayan Eka Budiartha from Sampoerna University who presented the topic and the moderator was Siti Aisah, M.Hum. from English Department Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtaysa. These online program purposes are to empower and share the knowledge about the use lexical knowledge by the choice of words of vocabulary knowledge.
Christianus I Wayan Eka Budiartha explained clearly about lexical in English grammar knowledge and the system of corpus and coca in search of frequently used words in a language, especially English language. Mr. Eka also gave some tips in IELTS Essay writing, constructing and developing ideas in text.
(Thursday, February 31, 2022) International Office of Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (IO-UNTIRTA) with POSCO Indonesia Inti has organized an online event program, INFO SESSION: POSCO TJ Park Foundation Asia Fellowship 2022. This event aims to propagate information related to the POSCO TJ Scholarship Park Foundation Asia Fellowship whose registration is open from April 11, 2022, to May 30, 2022.
The event was attended by Mrs. Nadhira Rahadi from POSCO Indonesia Inti as the Keynote Speaker, and Mrs. Dina Rachmawati and Mrs. Mira Maulani Utami who gave the Opening Speech at the beginning of the event. And than the event was moderated by Berliana Tristati Putri from Chemical Engineering 2019 who is the POSCO 202 Awardee and also invited Yuli Meliyani (Alumni Posco Awardee 2018/2019) and Muhammad Eka Setio Aji (Posco Awardee 2021/2022) in a sharing session with alumni who told about the benefits and experience as a POSCO Awardee.
We hope with the INFO SESSION: POSCO TJ Park Foundation Asia Fellowship 2022, Untirta students can find out more information about the POSCO Scholarship, and as a form of Pelita’s massive movement to propagate Scholarship Information at Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University.
(Serang, March 18th 2022) Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA and International Office of Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (IO-UNTIRTA) held an online guest lecture in collaboration with Mahkota Health Center Malaysia. The collaboration was part in Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa and Mahkota Health Center Malaysia. The Online Guest Lecture invited dr. Kenny Cheng Keng Peng from Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Mahkota Medical Centre, Malaysia and dr. Ade Ikhwan, Sp.An., M.Kes. from Faculty member of Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA with both of them as the speakers. The online event moderated by dr. Louisa Ivana Utami from Faculty member of Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA. The event was held online via zoom. The participants were from University college students across Java islands, estimated 104 participant online in the zoom event. This program purpose is to enrich the knowledge in the Medicine world and its research.
dr. Kenny present regarding the topic of thoracic surgical disease, there are many types of heart and lung disease in which dr. Kenny has a counter on his career as a doctor. One of the most common diseases that dr. Kenny’s encounter is lung cancer which is one of the most common cancer that occurs on a patient and it’s asymptomatic. Signs such as coughing blood, shortness in breathing, etc usually occur when cancer is already in the later stage. Surgery on heart disease is also manageable by cutting open on the center of the chest, and cutting the thorax bone to expose the heart so surgery becomes possible. Throughout the years, thoracic surgery has developed and there are many ways that can be executed to become as more effective as possible with less cost and less risk.
dr. Ade brought the topic of hemodynamic monitoring, the function of hemodynamic monitoring itself is to directly measure the patient blood pressure. This system measures the blood system from inside the veins. dr. Ade also gives advice or information to young doctors is that don’t just think of the measurement from the hemodynamic monitoring as numbers, but we also need to identify the problem or abnormal activity that occurs.
Registrasi International Indonesian Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) 2022 telah dibuka. Silakan kunjungi https://site.iisma.id/ untuk informasi dan registrasi IISMA 2022. Informasi lebih lanjut @iountirta dan https://io.untirta.ac.id
SERANG – The Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemdikbud) of the Republic of Indonesia together with the Education Fund Management Institute (LPDP) has again opened up opportunities for the best Indonesian students to study at one of the 73 best universities spread across 31 countries through the Indonesian International Student Mobility program. Awards (IISMA). This was socialized through the “Untirta IISMA 2022 Preparation Program” facilitated by the International Service Center (PELITA) Untirta on Thursday, February 10, 2022 to the leaders, deans, vice deans, lecturers, and students of Untirta and several other universities such as Uniba, Unsera , Unbaja, and UNMA online via the zoom app.
“Students who are members of the IISMA program will study in other study programs and take courses that are not in the curriculum in the current study program,” explained the Head of IISMA Program, Dr. eng. Ir. R. Rachmat A. Sriwijaya, S.T., M.T., D.Eng., IPM., ASEAN Eng. “The campuses are also different because students will study at the best universities abroad that have experience managing international students.” he continued.
Rachmat emphasized that IISMA aims to create global leaders who are able to compete in the international world of work, so that participants are ensured to gain real experience in the destination country, not online distance learning. “This IISMA program is not an online program, but offline because we want you to feel like you are in a new environment that you are not familiar with.” he said.
IISMA participants are encouraged to not only study in class, but also to explore in the destination country in order to learn and familiarize themselves with the culture of the local community. Therefore, the number of courses that can be taken by IISMA participants is also adjusted to local students, namely 3-4 courses out of 20 courses offered.
Obviously, “Based on surveys and observations, the study (portion) of normal students (abroad) is 4 subjects, so we give the same weight to local students there. You have to put your energy into exploring the city, not just studying in class.”
The method used in the IISMA program is recognition or recognition, not conversion or credit transfer which is often done in other student exchange programs. “So far we have known credit conversion, but IISMA uses recognition or recognition. IISMA will not use academic calculators and do not think about (chosen courses) which courses (which are equivalent to the original university curriculum) will go into.” Grace explained. Thus, the courses taken by students at the destination tertiary institution will be listed as is on the transcript with a weight of 20 credits even though the course is not included in the curriculum of the original tertiary institution. “If you replace the courses with courses that are already in the curriculum, then there is no difference between students who take part in IISMA and students who study at the original campus.” Strictly speaking.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Innovation Development, Service, and Research Downstream, Dr. H. Agus Sjafari, S.Sos., M.Si welcomed the IISMA socialization which he considered important to provide briefing to students who are eager and have great interest. “This is a very good program programmed by the Ministry of Education and Culture as part of the wider MBKM, not only at the national but international level. The learning experience that will be gained by students is certainly valuable.” he said.
Agus also reminded students to prepare thoroughly if they are interested in participating in this program. “This program cannot be easily implemented. There are preparations that need to be carried out, including this morning, namely the socialization of what IISMA is, how to be accepted, and what to prepare when you become a participant. The most important preparation is the problem of English which can be represented by TOEFL or IELTS scores. Then, other academic preparations and mental readiness as well.” The message.
Revina Dea Nanda, the only Untirta student who passed the IISMA program in 2021, also shared her experiences when implementing the program in Ireland. He shared that there were various interesting activities that he did not encounter in universities in Indonesia.
“I graduated at the National University of Ireland, Galway. During that time I took 3 courses. So we can take a cross-departmental matkul. I am in the same class with students from Germany, Spain, Italy, and others and can also enter the regular class with Irish students.” The story.
According to him, stomach problems were the biggest challenge while studying in Ireland, so he needed to cook his own food to ensure it was halal. “Life there is difficult and easy because Indonesian food is not widely sold there, so we have to be smart about finding halal food ingredients and processing them ourselves.” The story.
The IISMA program, which was first held in 2021, is listed as one of the nine Merdeka Learning Campus Merdeka (MBKM) programs launched by Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim. Therefore, IISMA has a legal and strong position because it is regulated in the Decree of the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Number 74/P/2021 concerning Recognition of Semester Learning Credit Units for the Independent Campus Program. Registration for IISMA 2022 will be open from March 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022. Students who want to learn more about IISMA can visit the official website https://kampusmerdeka.kemdikbud.go.id/km/IISMA or Instagram account @IISMA_RI
Also present at this outreach event, Dr. Udi Samanhudi M.Pd as Head of Pelita Untirta, Eko Supriyanto, S.Kom., MM., M.Ak as Sub Coordinator of Program, Partnership and Adm UPT International Services Untirta, deans and deputy deans of faculties, coordinators and sub-coordinators, the heads of UPP and UPT, heads of departments and study programs, as well as students in Untirta and a number of other universities in Banten. (Humas – SAC / AAP / VDF / RJ) (Translated by IO-NS)
