The Friday Prayer speech was delivered by Drs. KH M. Dian Nafi, M.Pd. as the Administrator of PP Al Muayyad Windan. The Nurul Huda Mosque itself is a campus mosque that serves as the center of Islamic activities and dissemination in the UNS environment. Before leaving the venue, President Jokowi prayed with the UNS Leaders. The Friday prayer also marks the end of President Jokowi’s working visit to UNS.

Before this Friday’s Prayer, President Jokowi attended the Academic Senate Open Session for UNS 46th Anniversary at UNS Tower. In the Open Session of the Academic Senate, President Jokowi inaugurated the UNS Tower Ki Hadjar Dewantara Building, UNS Vocational School Campus at Madiun Campus, and visited the UNS Innovative Products Exhibition at Solo Technopark (STP).

“We thank Mr. President Joko Widodo for attending the peak of UNS 46th Anniversary, inaugurating the UNS Tower Ki Hadjar Dewantara Building, inaugurating the UNS Campus in Madiun Regency, reviewing the exhibition at STP, and Friday prayers at the UNS Nurul Huda Mosque,” said Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho. Humas UNS

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Responding to the plan, the Constitutional Law Expert (HTN) of the Faculty of Law (FH) Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta Dr. Agus Riewanto, stated that KPU needs to be prepared for all risks of collective election 2024. His particular concern is the increase in the number of casualties from Voting Organizers (KPPS) caused by fatigue that occurred in 2019.

“Because there is no revision on Law No. 7 of 2017, I am worried that the issue in the 2019 election will re-occur in the 2024 election. So, if we want to predict the 2024 election, we could observe from the 2019 election,” Dr. Agus Riewanto stated in Nge-HIK “The Efforts to Manage Complexity of General Election and 2024 Election” on Thursday (11/11/2021).

In the event held by KPU Surakarta through the Zoom Cloud Meeting, Dr. Agus Riewanto also shared his evaluation of the 2019 election, including the absence of revision on Law No. 7 of 2017 regarding General Election, PKPU creativity in designing general election technical matters, proportional results based on majority rule, and expensive costs that will be incurred.

“In preparing the technical parts of the general election, PKPU could add aspects that are not appropriate in 2019 and improve it in 2024. Usually, there is a revision on General Election Law nearing the election, but today, we did not have it,” he explained.

Dr. Agus Riewanto suggested that national and local government elections should be held separately with an interlude of 2.5 years so that the populace will not be focused only on President and Vice-President election but also observe the election for DPR, DPD, and DPRD members. He also considers that five ballots and five ballot boxes for 2024 will be challenging for constituents and for the managing committee. “Thus, it needs to be simplified,” he added.

He emphasized the open proportional system adopted by Indonesia as the best approach because it allows political parties to develop, benefitting Indonesia as a democratic country. Besides considering the diversity of the Indonesian population.

“Generally, in countries with multiple religions, ethnics, and races, creates a proportional system shaped from all interests aspirations, so that there is no party that holds a single control (over the government), but parties have room to gain access in legislative institutions,” he concluded. Humas UNS

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To the President, the Chairman of CRISU, and the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, reported the learning activities in universities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Chairman stated that currently, several public universities in several regions had started their face-to-face learning system (PTM) trial. The decision to start the trial was based on the PPKM status of each region that changed from level 4 to level 1, 2, or 3. Prof. Jamal added that the decision was also taken based on the improvement in the pandemic indicators, the decrease in new cases, and Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) in hospitals. “Therefore, considering these conditions, the members of CRISU agreed to start the PTM trial,” he concluded.

The UNS Rector also emphasized that the trial is based on gradual and conditional principles and has been promoted by Prof. Jamal to the rectors of public universities since February 2021. The principles are promoted by Prof. Jamal based on the concern that PTM activities could lead to the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The principal also asked universities to have 30% attendants from the room’s normal capacity, and all students who participated in the PTM are vaccinated against Covid-19.

“Although there are several universities that have not to conduct PTM trial due to situation and condition of their region that is in level 4 or vulnerable to the spread of Covid-19,” Prof. Jamal added.

To the President, Prof. Jamal also explained that the universities collaborate closely with the local government, TNI/ Polri, alumni association, and the Faculty of Medical Science to vaccinate their academic members. The Rector specifically asked for continuous support from the President in vaccinating the academic members of public universities, considering a large number of academic members and many did not get an opportunity to get vaccinated to this day. “Hopefully, the President could push to speed up the vaccination program in universities,” Prof. Jamal said.

University Role in Covid-19 Pandemic

In his report, Prof. Jamal also shared public university full involvement in adjusting to the online learning system, observed from the development of virtual learning platforms and transformation of university management into digital-based management. Public universities also spread positive energy and increased their research quality during the pandemic through creative and innovative jumps that created thousands of researches and prototypes, including innovation to handle the Covid-19 pandemic.

“To support the Covid-19 handling, universities responded through its refocusing and reallocation of budget. Even though this policy causes a heavy impact on the slowed down the achievement of previously set targets,” Prof. Jamal explained.

He added that refocusing and reallocation of the budget has slowed down several construction programs. But he hopes that the delay could be realized in the next financial year. Representing the CRISU, Prof. Jamal also thanked the President of Indonesia for attending the meeting as his last Central Java visit agenda started on Saturday (11/9/2021).

On occasion, the President was accompanied by the Coordinating Minister of Human Resource Development and Culture (PMK) RI Prof. Muhadjir Effendy, Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) RI Nadiem Makarim, Acting Director-General of Diktiristek Prof. Nizam, Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, and Surakarta Major, Gibran Rakabuming Raka. Humas UNS

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