Faculty of Pharmacy UAD – Office of International Affairs

Tuesday, January 7, 2015, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan held an International Conference on Herbal Medicine the International Conference on Herbal Medicine Industrialization as Complementary Therapy in Natural Disaster (HMIND) 2015 at Royal Ambarukmo Hotel, Yogyakarta. Officially opened by Rector of UAD, Dr. Kasiyarno, M.Hum., this seminar was held as one of agenda to celebrate the 54th Anniversary of UAD.

The Chairman of HMIND, Dr. Kintoko, M.Sc., Apt. said that the conference is aimed to strengthen herbal medicine industrialization based on scientific evidences, and to support herbal medicines as complementary therapy especially applied on natural disasters. Dr. Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, Ph.D., Apt., the Chairperson of Milad UAD-54 Committee, said that the committee considered the conference topic due to the various of natural disasters which were often happened in Indonesia.

The keynote speech was by Governor of Special Region of Yogyakarta, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X which was delivered by GBPH Yudhaningrat as the representative. In the plenary sessions, there were four invited speakers, Prof. Huang Renbin (Guangxi Medical University, China), Prof. Dr. Oliver Kayser (Professor of the Technical Biochemistry, TU Dortmund, Germany), Prof. Dr. Krisana Kraisintu (Dean of Faculty of Oriental Medicine, Rangsit University, Thailand), and from Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), also one speaker from Faculty of Pharmacy UAD, Dr. dr. Akrom, M.Kes. Before the plenary session, there was also Saman Dance performed by 14 Chinese students who currenty study at Indonesian Literature Study Program, Faculty of Literature, Culture and Communication UAD.

Yogyakarta, Faculty of Pharmacy UAD held an international guest lecture on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at Kampus 3 UAD. This international guest lecture invited three international speakers from Thailand who are expert in traditional medicine. This guest lecture, entitled Development of Traditional Medicine was officially opened by the Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, M. Sc. Ph. D., Apt. In her opening speech, she expected this event could inspire the candidate of pharmacists especially in traditional medicine field.

The event was divided into three presentation sessions from Thai speakers. The first was presentation from Prof. Dr. Krisana Kraisintu, Dean of Faculty of Oriental Medicine at Rangsit University, talking about her experience in African countries in making traditional medicines and her experience of making the Halal Products of them. Then it continued by Assistant Professor Sirirat Pinsuwan, Dean of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Prince of Songkla University, explaining about the job field for pharmacists. The last speaker, Assistant Professor Yupa Tengwattanachoti, Deputy Dean Faculty of Oriental Medicine at Rangsit University, gave tutorial of Thailand traditional massage and the practice of it. Between the first and the second presentation, Assistant Professor Yupa Tengwattanachoti gave a streaching as trained all participants to do traditional massage by themselves. The success of the event can be seen from the huge number of participants in the room and also the interactive question-answer session. The event was closed by handing over the souvenir from UAD for the speakers.

On the next day, all the speakers had a business meeting with UAD, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM), and Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo (UMP) at Kampus 1 UAD. This meeting was attended by Rector of UAD (Drs. Kasiyarno, M.Hum), Vice Reactor I of UAD (Drs. Muchlas, M.T.), Dean Faculty of Pharmacy UAD (Dr. Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, S.Si.,M.Si.,Apt.), Director of Pharmacy Postgraduate Program (Prof. Dr. Achmad Mursyidi, Apt.,M.Sc.), Head of Office of International Affairs (Ida Puspita, M.A.), Vice Rector I of Universitas Muhammadiyah, and Vice Rector I of Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang. This meeting discussed about the cooperation between UAD, Rangsit University, and Prince of Songkla University. (Eci,-Ryn)