UNS — Student Association of Chemistry Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held a national webinar. The online event was attended by around 150 participants from various universities and served as the closing ceremony of Kovalen Edu Fair XI 2021.
Three speakers were invited to the webinar: Prof. Richardus Eko Indrajit, Rector of Universitas Pradita, Dr. Paed. Nurma Yunita Indriyanti, the Head of Natural Science Program UNS, and dr. Dian Nugroho, faculty member of Medicine Education Program UNS. Anita Sukarini, S.Pd., as the Vice-School Headmaster for Curriculum SMA Bina Widya Solo, acted as the moderator in the webinar.
Prof. Richardus delivered the first material on the golden generation of 2045. He argued that golden Indonesia is an independent and sovereign country that could fulfill its clothing, food, and shelter needs without help from other countries. According to him, the pandemic is an opportunity to learn and be independent.
“We need to take the ball to learn that we should become an independent learner, without commanded, (we) need to improve our self-quality to get the benefits from the demography bonus,” he stated.
dr. Dian Nugroho argued that people in their productive age need to be diligent in learning to ensure that they would reap something in the future.
“Learn today for the future, not to act for today. Before the pandemic, we experienced the time of technology destruction with a lack of technological development, while the pandemic destruction period, (we) faces double destruction that requires us to do something outside the norms, (because) when it is done following the norms, there are no added values. Move away from the comfort zone,” he stated in the webinar on Saturday (31/10/2021).
He also added that in welcoming golden Indonesia, there are three keys in the education sector: students, teachers, and the learning process. He added that to welcome the change, people need to prepare a strategy or literacy on communication and technology. This includes improving the efficiency of resources.
The last speaker, Dr. paed Nurma Yunita Indriyanti, argued that Golden Indonesia 2045 is a bright, strong, and independent country. In the education sector, university students will be free to learn wherever. “Currently, the education also builds a meta knowledge, not only knowledge. Knowledge could be gained from wherever, meta knowledge, problem-solving, and humanitarian,” Dr. Nurma explained. Humas UNS
Reporter: Bayu Prasetya Aji
Editor: Dwi Hastuti