The webinar was opened by Prof. Dr. Leo Agung S., M.Pd., as the Chief of PSPP UNS. The invited speakers shared their views, starting from Dr. Sarbini, a Faculty Member of Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Raden Mas Said Surakarta, who discussed the gap in understanding religiosity in the public space and to be pious privately is often clash with Pancasila. Dr Sarbini explained that religiosity at public places needs to put forward the collective life, similar to adopting Pancasila in the public space, that needs to be aligned with the religious values to minimize the difference between the two.

“Pancasila must be defined in the daily life through religious practices that prioritize collectiveness above all differences. Therefore, religion could serve as an ethical foundation for the development of good nationalism in the healthy public spaces,” Dr. Sarbini, M.Ag., stated.

Different from Dr. Sarbini, who suggested Pancasila implementation through religious practices, Dr. Winarno, M.Pd as the head of Pancasila and Civics Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) UNS, stated that Pancasila is basically the abstract values of an object. Some people even dubbed it as The Five Principles. “While the concrete application of these values is norms,” he explained.

Dr. Mibtadin, a researcher at PSPP UNS, shared another different view that the religious values or tawasut needs to be developed with Pancasila development could be implemented through education. Therefore, in the Global-Millennials era, the comprehension on Pancasila, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, NKRI, and the 1945 Constitution could be pursued through the Information Technology (IT), for example, by providing creative and up-to-date contents, such as vlogs or TikTok so that education could connect with the millennials.

Characters development also need to start early through the involvement of the millennials generation in the Pancasila community, Ihya a-turats Pancasila, and national knowledge such as the spirit to be united, respect differences, willingness to sacrifice, never give up, patriotism, nationalism, optimism, self-esteem, togetherness, and self-confidence. Character buildings need to involve cultures and traditions to prevent identity loss in the millennials. This effort could be implemented by introducing Pancasila as the nation’s ideology through formal education.

“Or through developing national knowledge and Pancasila through educational institutions, national literacy, and history books,” Dr. Mibtadin concluded. Humas UNS

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In the international forum, Afrizal who is also the member of International  Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) will present the renewable energy. According to Afrizal, renewable energy remains facing the obstacles especially in Indonesia. In the recent 3-5 years, the number of electrical generator is only 5% and dominated by geothermal and solarcell. According to Rizal, although Indonesia has numerous islands and becomes the fourth longest coast in the world, however, there is no electrical generator using ocean poweryet, especially using wave power.

“The subject of my research took place in Bawean island which spent 7 hours using cruiser from Gresik,” explained Afrizal during the interview on Friday (6/3/2016). The research findings  conducted from January to December 2015  will be presented in Norway as well as his mission to promote the potency of renewable energy in Indonesia to the world. Based on his research, Afrizal finds that the people living near the shoreline have not used the electricity yet.

Go Abroad Needs Effort

Traveling to Norway to attend the conference is not the first trip for Afrizal. In 2015, Afrizal joined Asean Youth Energy Summit in Singapore as well as International Student Energy Summitas the world level gathering. Afrizal remains having the same problems whenever he goes abroad, namely sponsorship funding. He has consequently passed up the chance to go to a prestigious international event due to this problem. Moreover, Afrizal also becomes the only delegation from UNS. “Other universities are represented by several delegations, however, I’m the only one from UNS,” he explained. This situation encourages him to seek other opportunities to go abroad and bring UNS to be the World Class University.

The insufficient financial support from the university is not the primary problem for Afrizal. Afrizal said,  “There is not nearly enough willingness to go abroad. If there is not enough fund, the students whose mental is rather low will give up. Otherwise, they will attempt to find other sponsorship by arranging a good proposal.”

Mental test

According to Afrizal, the researches for the students of UNS is merely as the graduation requirement. However, published journals as well as the paper involved in the forum have the important contribution for the university and the researcher. Afrizal admitted, “The researches of UNS students are mostly good in average. Nonetheless, arranging five pages journals seems rather difficult for them.” The engineering research as Afrizal conducted must be a published journal as one of the graduation requirements, however, most of them are satisfied  when their researches published only in their department journal.

Afrizal stated that the journals dissemination in the scope of international level is very important for the students. It can be the chance for them to promote the researchers’ ability in Indonesia. Afrizal, who comes from Gresik, said  that ‘the students are demanded to be a driver not a passanger’, a quote from his favorite book entitled Paspor whose author is J.S. Khairen. Afrizal emphasized, “Those two things will definitely journey the same destination but the process makes them different”. He also reminds the UNS students that there are bunch of opportunities to go abroad. “When studying until midnight, you may have internet surfing through Google to seek the events based on your passion and ability instead of doing your assignments only. There are many events to look for,” he ended. [denty.red.uns.ac.id]

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