Kuala Lumpur, 19 June 2023
The essence of education is adaptation, self-reliance, and the maturation of children in living within society. This was the key message fully conveyed by the students along with lecturers from PTMA who carried out the 7th Cohort of the Community Empowerment Program (PPM)/Community Service (KKN)/Educational Community Service (KKNDik)/International Partnership PkM.
The Indonesian Ambassador, Mr. Hermono, along with the Education and Cultural Attaché, Prof. Muh Firdaus, and Mrs. Frini, Head of SIKL (Indonesian School of Kuala Lumpur), warmly welcomed this PTMA program. It is a concrete initiative that has been conducted continuously in collaboration among PTMAs throughout Indonesia, from the first cohort a year ago up to this 7th cohort. This program has had a significant impact on the target communities and is an excellent platform for providing international experience to PTMA students and lecturers within the international education context of Education for All (PUS) in the Kuala Lumpur Peninsula. In his speech, the Ambassador expressed hope that this program will continue and foster further synergies with other universities, with PTMA as the main driver.
On the same occasion, the Chairman of the PTMA LPTK Association and Program Coordinator for PPM/KKN/KKNDik/PkM KI PTMA, Prof. Harun Joko Prayitno, reported that the program continues to innovate from one cohort to the next.
Cohorts 1 to 3 focused their innovations on talent-based outputs. Starting from the 4th cohort, innovations included the publication of ISBN-registered books. By the 5th cohort, additional innovations included the ICEDUALL (International Conference on Education for All), with selected outputs published in Sinta-indexed journals for qualifying papers and ISSN-registered proceedings.
Several invited speakers, including Prof. Hairy from UPSI Malaysia and Azis Awaludin from the University of Wisconsin, USA, encouraged the Education for All initiative led by PTMA across various remote areas and even in several countries. They emphasized that this movement should uphold human dignity through holistic education and social-life-oriented education in this era of global communication and computation.
Hopefully.
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