International Office Activities – Page 7 – Office of International Affairs

UAD Sends Joint Degree Students to Guangxi University for Nationalities

October 5, 2017/in Event, International Office Activities, News /by admin

Located at Ruang Dekanat Faculty of Industrial Technology, Prof. Sarbiran, Ph.D. (Vice Rector IV), and Kartika Firdausy, S.T., M.T. (Dean of Faculty of Industrial Technology) officially delivered speech in the Technical Meeting of Joint Degree Program Departure Preparation.

This year, UAD sent nine students to study at Guangxi University for Nationalities under Joint Degree Program. They are seven students from Informatics Engineering Program and two students from Economics Management. All of them have studies in UAD for two year since 2015, and they are scheduled to study at UAD’s partner university in China from 2017 to 2019.

Good luck!

UAD Strengthen Cooperation in Thailand

August 23, 2017/in Event, International Office Activities /by admin

Universitas Ahmad Dahlan participated in Thailand Education Fair at Convention Center of Prince of Songkla University. In this opportunity, Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (Director of International Office of UAD) and Ina Ruslinah, M.Hum. (Staff of International Office of UAD) introduced UAD to thousands of visitors who visited UAD’s booth. The visitors are mostly students of Senior High Schools, students of Junior High Schools, their teachers, representatives of UAD’s partner schools in Thailand, alumni of UAD, etc.

Further, Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. and Ruslinah, M.Hum. were invited by Consulate of Republic Indonesia in Songhkla. In this visit, they discussed series of cooperation between Indonesia and Thailand, besides representative of Consulate of Republic Indonesia in Songhkla appreciated large number cooperation between UAD and Educational Institutions in Thailand.

In the next day, representative of Directorate of Higher Education of Muhammadiyah Central Assembly, Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (Director of International Office of UAD) and some representatives of Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Education discussed series of possible cooperation with representatives of Prince of Songkla University.

UAD Strengthens Cooperation with Indian University

August 9, 2017/in Event, International Office Activities, News /by admin

After, the first and outstanding India Edu Fair, that was conducted under cooperation between Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) with TIE-UPS International in 29 January t0 1 February 2017 at Kampus 1 UAD, Dr. Kasiyarno, M.Hum. (Rector of UAD) and Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (Director of International Office) visited some Indian universities for one week.

During the visit, Dr. Kasiyarno, M.Hum. and Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. visited, met and discussed with some universities those have singned MoU woth UAD. Further, in this visit, Dr. Kasiyarno, M.Hum. was invited as one of the keynote speaker in a conference conducted by Garden City University (one of UAD’s partner). He also visited some laboratories of the universities.

To strengthen cooperation, Rector of UAD signed MoU with Sona College of Technology, AIMS Institutes of Banglore and Krupanidhi Group of Institutions.

UAD Sends Seven Graduate Students to Sathyabama University India

August 9, 2017/in International Office Activities, News /by admin

Students of Graduate Program of Engineering of UAD did Internship at Sathyabama University

Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) under Master of Informatics Engineering Study sent seven students to conduct internship at Sathyabama University India. This program was held during one week, starting from 29 June to 5 July 2017. One week internship program is a pilot project after singing MoU between both parties at Kampus 1 UAD during India Edu Fair conducted by TIE-UPS International and UAD last January 2017.

In this great opportunity, students got hands-on experience of Indian culture and education, further they attended classes, participated in seminar and visited some laboratories.

UAD Strengthen Cooperation with Taiwan Universities

March 16, 2017/in Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News /by admin

Jakarta, 9th March 2017, located at Gedung Pimpinan Pusat Muhammadiyah (PPM), Directorate of Higher Education of Muhammadiyah Central Assembly conducted an official MoU signing between 35 Muhammadiyah Higher Education with 12 Taiwan Universities.

This event was officially opened by speeches those were delivered by Dr. H. Haedar Nashir, M.Si. (The head Muhammadiyah Islamic Organization) and Dr. William Lai (representative of Tainan government, Taiwan). Then it was followed by official signing MoU ceremony. In this opportunity, UAD was represented by Dr.Kasiyarno,M.Hum. (Rector of UAD) and Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (Director of International Office of UAD).

UAD has long history of cooperation with Taiwan Universities, one of them is sending one lecturer to study at National Dong Hwa University as one of UAD’s partners. (photo by kuiptm)

Internship Program of USANT’s Students in UAD 2017

February 18, 2017/in Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News, Scholarship /by admin

Internship is one of the most active students’ program between Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) and University of Saint Anthony (USANT) Philippines. This yearly event has been conducted for two times and the number of participant rapidly increased. There are 15 students participated in this event, they come three different programs; eight students of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, three students of Faculty of Psychology and four students of communication Faculty of Letters, Culture and Communication. Further, Nelia A. Britanico from Faculty of Teacher Training and Education and William Peter Teddy T. Guyt from Communication Program Faculty of Liberal Art were represented USANT as their supervisors. .

They studied in UAD from 23rd of January to 17th of February 2017. This three weeks intership program consists of some activities. Students of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education did sit in the class, had first hand excperience on teaching in some lab schools of UAD and Muhammadiyah Islamic Organizations, seminar in teaching method, discussion on Indonesian education, etc. Students of Psychology did sit in the class, visited some labs, etc. Students of communication studied photography, broadcasting media, editing and visited ADI TV (Local TV station belongs to Muhammadiyah Islamic Organization). Moreover, for the final project students were asked to make a short movie.

Students and supervisors are also given hand on experience of learning Indonesian culture by visiting some historical places such as Borobudur temple, Prambanan temple, hand-made handycraft, Merapi Volcano Mount etc.

To close the event, faculty conducted “The 2nd International Television Broadcasting Competition”. This competition were opened for local students and internship students. There were twelve categories contested, those are best photo, unique photo, best camera person, best journalistic photo, most talented news readers, most talented presenter, best setting and properties, bests scenario, best sound director, best movie editor, best director and best short movie.

Best talented news reader is won by Kimberly N Nacario
Most talented presenter is won by Hesti Sukma Setianingsih
Best photo is seized by Beradette Aldos
Best setting and properties is seized by “unending love” movie
Best scenario is won by Kimberly N Nacario and Hesti Sukma S
Best director is seized by Rifky Nanda F
Best Camera person is seized by Sara O. Mirasol
Uniq photo is seized by Veronica Kulsum and Rufai Nanda F
Best jurnalistic photo is won by Rizki Delisia U and Ray Reneg
Best movie editor is won by Veronica Kulsum
Best sound director is seized by Alfi Fitriyani
Best short move is seized by “Regret” short movie

We congratulate to all the winners! We are waiting for the next activities!

UAD Cooperated with TIE-UPS International Proudly Present The First Indian Education Fair in Yogyakarta

February 6, 2017/in Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News /by admin

Located at Ruang Auditorium 3rd floor of Kampus 1 Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD), UAD and TIE-UPS International proudly presented the first Indian education fair. It was titled “Incredible India Education Fair”, and it was conducted for three days from 30th January to 1st February 2017.

There were 14 Indian universities participated in this event. In the first day, 30th January 2017, representative of 14 Indian universities met representative (Principals/vice principals/ teachers) from Senior High School. In this great chance, all representatives of Indian universities introduced their universities to the students through their principals. Further, some of them offered scholarship.

In the afternoon, Incredible Education Fair was officially opened by Dr.Kasiyarno, M.Hum. (Rector of UAD), representatives of Indian embassy, and Mr. Ravi Makhija (director of TIE-UPS International). This event was attended by thousands of students of senior high schools and universities in Yogyakarta. Apart from Education Fair, in the same building seminar on Indian universities were also held. In the mini seminar, visitors got deeper information about each university and their offers.

In the second day, representative of Indian universities, TIE-UPS International, Dr. Kasiyarno,M.Hum. (Rector of UAD and the head of Association of Private Higher Education Institutions in Yogyakarta), and 35 private universities of Yogyakarta conducted warm meeting then signed MoU. In the afternoon, the exhibition was continued.

“We believe that after signing MoU, all of the private universities directly take an action to realize the signed Mou” said Dr. Kasiyarno, M.Hum.

In the last day, Dr. Kasiyarno,M.Hum. (Rector of UAD) signed Mou with Mr.Ravi Makhija as the director of TIE-UPS International (representative of Indian universities in Indonesia) and three universities, those are Dr. AMBEDKARInstitute of Technology Bengaluru Karnatak, Sathyabama University and Garden City University, India.

Annual Meeting of National Forum of International Office of Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Education

December 17, 2016/in Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News /by admin

Located at Universitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo, Universitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo cooperated with conducted an annual workshop from 9th to 11st December 2016. This workshop is titled ” Developing Global Network Toward International Outreach”. This event was officially opened by the opening speeches delivered by Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (the director of International Office of UAD and the head of National Forum of International Office of Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Education) and it was attended by the head and staff of international office of all of Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Educations.

In this great opportunity, there were some cases delivered such as “Best Practice of International Community Service Program (KKN Internasional) by Ida Puspita, M.A.Res., then, Purwanto Subroto,Ph.D. (Chief of Sub-directory of Inter-Institution Cooperation of DIKTI) as the keynote speaker delivered speech on “qualification of higher education/university ranking in national and international level in 2016”. Further, representative from India’s Government presented “Education India”, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang presented Summer Course Program, etc.

Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. was the moderator of lesson learned session with the tittle “the outbound KKN Internasional by Secretary of Islamic Integrated School Network Thailand (IISN)”. The speaker of this session was Mr. Zaki Roengsamut. He is the coordinator of KKN International between UAD and partner schools in Thailand. His outstanding speech encouraged participants to ask many questions related to KKN Internasional. Further, KKN Internasional between UAD and partner school in Thailand is one of the best International program of UAD.

An annual event of National Forum of International Office of Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Education was officially closed by speeches those were delivered by Dr.dr. H. Muhammad Isman Jusuf,Sp.S. (Rector of Umiversitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo) and Ida Puspita, M.A.Res.
We wish the best future ahead for all Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Higher Educations.

UAD Holds The 7th International Day

December 2, 2016/in Darmasiswa, Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News /by admin

Located at green hall Kampus 1 Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta, Dr. Kasiyarno M.Hum. (Rektor of UAD) and Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (Director of International Office) officially opened the 7th International Day of UAD. Further, this amazing event was attended by Dr. Abdul Fadlil, M.T. (Vice Rector III), Prof. Sarbiran,Ph.D. (Vice Rector IV), and Faculty members.
There were two main agendas in this great opportunity, and all of them are free in charge!
The first is international food exhibition. This exhibition was started at 9am and finished at 12 am. There were 13 booths from 8 different countries. International students from some universities, many students of UAD, faculty members and staff of UAD eagerly came and tasted the served foods.

“This event is always marvelous, we hardly wait this event” said some visitors.

The second is “UAD Asing Star”. UAD Asing Star is a singing competition, the participants are international students from all of universities in Yogyakarta and Central Java. Some of them sang Indonesian songs and others sang English songs.

From food festival stage, about 500 visitors came to the international food festival of the 7th International Day.
They enthusiastically tasted international flavors , they moved from one booth to others in 13 booths.
In the closing ceremony, all of international students curiously waited the announcement of the food festival winners. The winners were chosen based on the numbers of the visitors in their booth.
The visitors chose team Thailand 2 UAD as the most favorite team, team China UAD as the best team work, team Thailand 1 UAD as the most creative team, and team Malaysia UAD as the best booth. Every year, team Thailand is always granted as one of the winners!
“Decoration of their booth attracts as to visit, taste their food and ask deeper about Thailand”, said some visitors.
Note: Please kindly tag yourselves.

From UAD Asing Start singing competition Stage. As all of the performances deeply touch the adjudicators’ hearth, the final round tightly run. Then, finally, the adjudicators decided that the first winner is Randrianary Bodeniraina (international student of UGM from Madagascar), the second winner is Le Phong Vinh (international student of UNY fron Vietnam), the third winner is Li Ji (international student of UAD from China), and the forth winner is Maia B. X. D. Baptista (international student of STTNAS from Timor Leste).
Further, the best participants are given to duet of Mus-ab Buenae Leetha Kaddah (international students of UAD from Thailand and Suraida Salaeh (international student of UGM from Thailand).

“It was quite hard to decide the winners, all of the participants did their best. Finally, we chose Randrianary Bodeniraina as the first winner because she sang from the deepest of her heart and softly touch our feeling.” Said Ida Puspita, M.A.Res. (The director of OIA UAD) as one of the adjudicators.
Congratulation to all of the winners!
We deeply appreciate all the participants!
We are waiting for your participation next year!

International Students of UAD Win Indonesian Language National Competition

November 22, 2016/in Darmasiswa, Event, Feature, International Office Activities, News /by admin

International students of UAD has long history of winning Indonesian Language and Culture National Competition

Located at Unversitas Negeri Solo, Nguyen Thi Thu Thao (a Darmasiswa student of UAD from Vietnam) won the most favorite participant in Indonesian Language Speech Competition in Indonesian Language for Students in International Level Competition. In This great chance, UAD under International Office Affairs sent two students to participate in, they are; Ali Abdulraoof Taha Al-Maktari, an international student from Yemen who has been studying in Chemical Engineering Program since September 2015 and Nguyen Thi Thu Thao (Tina, Indonesian name) is a Darmasiswa student who has been studying in Darmasiswa program since September 2016.

Ali delivered speech on “ Budaya Indonesia di Era Globalisasi: Sebagai Identitas atau Komoditas” and Tina delivered speech on “Bahasa Indonesia Dalam Ruang Publik dan Media Sosial”. Tina was granted as the most favorite participant after competing with 13 Indonesian students and four international students.

Besides that, a month ago, 21 October 2016 located at Universitas Indonesia, team Pembacaan Cerita (Story Telling) of International students of UAD was granted as the winner. the team was consisted of Guo Yaomin, Zheng Huangting, Qian Shan Yu, Tong Qiang and Ren Yu Jie (International students under U to U Program from China).

As widely known, one of the best program for international students in UAD is Indonesian Language and Culture, routinely UAD under International Office Affairs (OIA) sends international students to participate in national competition. Further, international students of UAD has along history of winning Indonesian Language and culture national competition. Tania won the second trophy for UAD this year.

Yeeee, we are always proud of you.

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