UNS — The Vibrant 46th Anniversary of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta is still echoing in the campus environment. This time, the Faculty of Teachers and Educational Sciences (FKIP) UNS showed its participation in the celebration through the Nusantara Traditional Fashion Competition: Guyub Rukun Keluarga FKIP UNS.
The event was held in the FKIP UNS Postgraduate Building courtyard Friday (18/3/2022). Viewers can enjoy the show, on-site live performance, Zoom Cloud Meeting, and a live broadcast at the official SEMAR TV Youtube channel. This event is a part of a series of activities to celebrate the 46th Anniversary of UNS. The competition participants in this activity include the FKIP UNS leaders, staff, employees, and lecturers from all study programs at FKIP UNS.
The competition was officially opened by Dr. Mardiyana, M.Sc., as Dean of FKIP UNS. In his remarks, he conveyed the purpose of this traditional fashion competition. He argued that this traditional fashion competition was essential in maintaining fellowship in the FKIP UNS environment. “This activity is one of the artistic activities hosted by the Faculty as a means of gathering for lecturers, academic support staff, students, and all academic communities at FKIP UNS. In addition, this activity aims to instill national culture, where we showed our diversified nationalism. I think we can witness the result together in the morning race today,” explained Dr. Mardiyana.
Dr. Mardiyana is also grateful that, even with a strict health protocol implementation, many FKIP UNS activities in welcoming the UNS anniversary can be carried out on-site (live). Moreover, the various activities held are also expected to be entertainment media for all academic communities in the FKIP UNS environment. Dr. Mardiyana also said that FKIP also enlivened the UNS 46th Anniversary by organizing various activities. These activities are expected to be a continuous and sustainable event in the next UNS anniversary. “We organized several activities, specifically in FKIP. There are blood donor activities, meetings with the leaders of State University FKIP throughout Indonesia, training activities for lecturers and students as facilitators for children with special needs, academic activities, artistic activities, sports activities, and many other activities,” he added.
The implementation of fashion competitions is prepared in a careful manner. The competition venue has been arranged in such a way to resemble a catwalk area for a fashion show model. The participants walked around and showed off the very diverse fashion of the Indonesia archipelago. They also pose in front of the camera.
FKIP UNS also invited competent judges in this field. There were three judges, Eko Wakyu Prihantoro from the Indonesia Institute of Art (ISI) Surakarta, Kusnanta from the Batik Surakarta Foundation, and Intan Winda, S.Sn., as an art and modelling practitioner. Humas UNS
Reporter: Rangga Pangestu Adji
Editor: Dwi Hastuti
