In his report, Prof. Dody stated that KRTI 2021 is participated by 163 teams from 61 universities in Indonesia in four divisions with different themes. The divisions are Racing Plane (RP), Fixed-Wing (FW), Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL), and Technology Development (TD). “This competition aims to facilitate students in creating in the aerodynamic field, especially flying robot. Besides as a means of building networking, information exchange, and educating the community, students, observers, researchers, and flying robot activists,” Prof. Dody reported.

Muslih, M.Si., the Head of Administration Subdivision Puspresnas, stated that KRTI is a part of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) implementation that aims to encourage university students to be active in an academic while developing themselves as a creative, competitive individual with strong characters. “KRTI is held to train university students on unmanned flying vehicles, which includes an assessment on configuration, control, data collection, flying parameters, observation, mapping, and delivery of packages in a location or vertical building,” he added.

In his opening remark, the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, appreciated Kemendikbudristek’s trust towards the Faculty of Engineering (FT) UNS as host and managing committee of KRTI 2021. “UNS is committed to always providing the best services for the success of unmanned vehicle or KRTI contest from 15-20 November 2021. Welcome and have a fair competition, 163 teams from 61 universities in Sumatera, Batam, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi, to Maluku Utara,” Prof. Jamal said.

In the next five days, all 163 teams will compete in the annual contest held by Puspresnas. Besides hosting the contest, UNS also participated in the competition through its representatives from the Bengawan UV team, who succeeded in participating in the final round in all four divisions. Humas UNS

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“Art and Design Faculty of Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta wants to support internationalization programs, one of them is introducing Indonesian batik for further on international scale, especially to foreign students, so that Indonesian batik can be more acknowledged, not only from its visual motif but also from its magnificent meaning,” Tiwi Bina Affanti said, as the Chairman of Textile Craft Department on her greeting.

This short course was presented through a series of theories and practical activities about batik which was held in Javanologi Hall. In order to give deeper information about batik, in this activity, the participants were asked to visit Batik Dalem Hardjonegoro, Batik Abstrak Pandono and practicing batik together with the local community called Batik Mekar Jaya at Pilang Village, Sragen. They joined the occasion for six days and get introduced to various kinds of batik; batik klasik (classic), batik pedesaan (countryside), batik tulis (hand-writing), batik cap (stamped), batik lukis (painted), natural dyeing, synthesis coloring, and pelorotan (wax-removing).

Irene, one of the participants coming from Madagascar, who is currently studying visual communication design, said that she was interested in Indonesia culture, which one of the is batik. “I have already been able to speak Bahasa Indonesia since 2014 and I want to know batik making process and to find out more any information relating to batik,” she said.

It is different for Nor Zana, a course participant form Malaysia who studies History said that she wanted to know more about batik because it has various philosophical values and they were related to the life value.[](azaria.red.uns.ac.id)

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