The Director of Academic Reputation and Student Affairs Sutanto, S.Si. DEA., stated that it would be unfortunate if the Mayor’s phenomenal steps were not followed by all community members’ movements. For this reason, UNS, as one of the universities in Surakarta, contributes to this movement by holding this Expo. “Our intention today is to follow up the agenda set by Mayor Solo in Paris. Previously, the response of the people there (in Paris) was excellent, Indonesia’s reputation was getting known, and the French people talked about our city. To support this move, we are looking for more products from Solo, Ngawi, and beyond. These products will be assessed, and then we will find a sponsor to distribute the product, to send the product to Paris, to the gallery in France,” explained Dr. Sutanto at the soft opening of the UNS Entrepreneurship (KWU) Expo on Thursday (30/6/2022).

This initiative was welcomed by the Head of the Surakarta City Cooperative and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Office, Wahyu Kristina, as one of the Solo delegates at the show in Paris, who also appreciates the UNS Entrepreneurship (KWU) Expo. According to her, this activity is a concrete form of community support for the Surakarta City Government’s agenda. “I delivered a message from the Mayor. He highly appreciated this activity because to achieve QPI, UNS has developed students’ products, SMEs, and its partner villages, to be displayed at this Expo, which also worked with La Maison de l’Indonesie,” Kristina said.

The products exhibited in this Expo will be curated by four curators, namely the owner of La Maison de I’Indonesie, Mathieu Mergans; the owner of UD. Berlawalata Solo; importer of Indonesian products in France, Diana; and Deputy of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, Liliek Setiawan, S.E. The products that pass the curation stage will be tested for export to Paris. On the other hand, UNS will provide assistance in finding sponsors who will buy product samples and fund the shipping process to Paris, thus, the products can enter the Paris market, and the product owners can follow up on the export process independently.

Aside from the exhibition, the Expo will be enlivened by several activities, including a workshop on student village entrepreneurship development, a student entrepreneurship product development workshop, and the performance of each participating SME or student organization at UNS. Humas UNS

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The signing ceremony was attended by Surakarta Mayor, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and the Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) Representative Solo, Nugroho Joko Prastowo. The signing ceremony was held in Bale Tawangarum Balaikota Surakarta on Friday (25/3/2022) and was broadcasted through the Zoom Cloud Meeting, Bank Indonesia Solo YouTube, and Gibran TV.

The agreement aims to develop the curriculum of the research program of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) program and to open partnership opportunities between SV UNS and Baznas Surakarta. As mentioned by the Dean of SV UNS, Drs. Santoso Tri Hananto, M.Acc., Ak., the collaboration is an effort to support Surakarta Mayor’s program to shape Baznas Kota Surakarta as the best in Indonesia.

“SV UNS is ready to support through the Integrated Information System, Website, Accounting System, and Marketing Strategy,” Santoso stated.

The website prepared by SV UNS is available in four languages, Indonesia, English, Arab, and Mandarin. “This (language service) is provided to reach all nations globally,” Santoso stated.

The website also facilitates community members to perform Zakat, Infaq, and Sedekah (ZIS). Further, the website will also improve Baznas management by providing financial reporting accountability and transparency. Thus, improving the distribution of funds to those in need.

In developing the website, SV UNS involved students in six programs, Diploma Program (D3) in Informatics Engineering, Diploma Program (D3) in Accounting, Diploma Program (D3) in Marketing Management, Diploma Program (D3) in Applied Communication, Diploma Program (D3) in English, and Diploma Program (D3) Mandarin Language.

The Head of Baznas Surakarta, Muhammad Qayim, greatly appreciated the collaboration, stating, “I convey my gratitude to SV UNS for the developing the information technology for Baznas Surakarta. Hopefully, the synergy brings blessings.” Humas UNS

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The tree planting was conducted after Gibran Rakabuming Raka led the International Volunteer Day Ceremony in front of the dr. Prakosa Rectorate Building UNS.

The ceremony was participated by a group of SAR volunteers and TNI/Polri personnel in Surakarta.

In the tree planting ceremony, Gibran Rakabuming Raka was accompanied by the Vice-Mayor of Surakarta Teguh Prakosa, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation Affairs UNS, Prof. Kuncoro Diharjo, and Tawang as the representative from Eka Tjipta Foundation (ETF).

“Hopefully, this tree could add to the green impression. Moreover, the green area is one of disaster mitigation efforts performed in Surakarta,” Gibran Rakabuming Raka stated.

In the official release received by uns.ac.id, the Chairman of Eka Tjipta Foundation, Hong Tjhin, explained that the tree seeds planted in UNS Reservoir are a starting step of more than 1,000 tree seeds planting in the city.

The tree seed provided is also supported by the green area and protection of Surakarta. The trees planted on this occasion are Bougainville, mahogany, and many other kinds of plants.

“There are more than 1,000 tree seeds provided. Planting is the simplest effort but effective in maintaining the city’s green spaces, taking care of the environment, and fighting climate change. Almost all people can be involved in performing (tree planting),” Hong Tjhin stated.

The tree-planting ceremony is expected to provide continuous benefits for the surrounding community.

“All parties participated in taking care of the trees. Almost all people could be involved. It will be good if the volunteerism can be translated into tree planting and caring activities.” Humas UNS

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Launched as a startup company, Zyklus Indonesia is a waste management startup, digital technology, and community empowerment. Zyklus App was launched by Ir. Gatot Sutanto as the Head of Environmental Office of Surakarta. Gatot Sutanto stated the message from the Mayor of Surakarta, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, that the Government of Surakarta supports and opens an opportunity to collaborate with Zyklus Indonesia. The remark is also marked as Zyklus Indonesia launching and signing of launching certificate by Gatot Sutanto.

The idea to establish Zyklus Indonesia startup comes from its founder’s concern on the increasing waste production and lack of waste management in Indonesia. Five UNS students created Zyklus Indonesia: Ammar Abdurrohman (CEO), Hendrika Ayuliani Muntiyas (CFO), Muhammad Fadhli Putra Mulyana (CTO), Nurul Faiqoh (COO), and Rendra Tri Kusuma (CMO). This main team is also supported by ten other students who contribute to the finance, operational, marketing, and development departments.

In the launching ceremony, CEO Zyklus Indonesia, Ammar, stated that the Zyklus application could be downloaded in Google Play Store. The app was funded by UNS and therefore has a legal name of PT Zyklus Lestari Indonesia per 17 September 2021.

“To achieve a more sustainable Indonesia, Zyklus believes that synergy among many parties could achieve sustainability and well-being. The company also has several taglines #KolaborasiLestari and #PilahPilihSampah,” Ammar stated.

The launching ceremony was concluded with an explanation of the application by the COO and CTO Zyklus, Faiq and Fadhli. Zyklus App has several accessible and easy-to-use features such as ZiPick, ZiDrop, Zinfo, ZiPay, and ZiPajak. These features are for picking wastes (ZiPick), wastes drop off in Zyklus Agents (ZiDrop), actual environmental information and news (Zinfo), Zyklus digital wallet (Zipay), and digital tax payment (ZiPajak). People were invited to collaborate with Zyklus to achieve the grand vision of creating a more sustainable environment in Indonesia. Humas UNS

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The expo has 150 stands with a total of 1,155 exhibited products consisting of 212 digital products, 246 education products, 157 appropriate technology, 178 handicraft products, 212 processed food products, and other 150 creative products.

“Representing the Government of Surakarta Municipality, we appreciate and thank all UNS academic members for holding this KKN product exhibition. Hopefully, this expo could empower the community by introducing (and) developing the excellent products from each village,” Teguh stated.

Teguh was amazed by the exhibited products because the KKN program usually only lasted for two months. He added that the expo proved that community-university student collaboration could be implemented well.

“These products also could be developed by the students so that when they were graduated, they could work in the entrepreneurship field. Utilized what the municipal government has because it is a part of UNS as well; please utilize the facility during this event,” he added.

The Vice Mayor of Surakarta also hoped that this event could be a milestone between UNS and municipal government collaboration through product exhibition.

“Hopefully, this (exhibition) also inspires other campuses. For the previous KKNs, maybe they could be included in the next period. There will be more potential outputs. We challenge the students to develop (these products),” he concluded. Humas UNS

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Olivia – her nickname – is a representative from Jebres Subdistrict. In her 20 years of age, she collected her courage to participate in the competition, an event she has longed for a long time. To the board of juries, the fifth-semester student shared her wish to encourage the young generation to preserve the Javanese culture.

“I want to have a real contribution to the development of arts, culture, and tourism in Solo,” she said.

In an interview with the uns.ac.id team, Olivia said that her willingness was inspired by the Solo slogan, Solo the Spirit of Java. She thinks the slogan means that Solo is the center for Javanese tourism, and awareness to preserve the nation’s wealth is vital.

“If we, who live in Solo, do not understand Javanese culture, how it develops, how it survives amid the changing times,” Olivia stated.

In achieving the title, Olivia needed to compete with 114 other participants in Putra and Putri categories. She won over 90 participants through written tests and interviews that consisted of public speaking tests and interests and talents. In the final round, the finalists were required to participate in the briefing before participating in the Grand Final that was attended by the Mayor of Surakarta, Gibran Rakabuming.

During the briefing, Olivia was highly interested in the series of training. She felt lucky to have the opportunity to learn Javanese culture in-depth, leaving a deep impression for her, especially when she learned about Javanese culture she did not know before. “About tourism as well. So, it is easier to learn,” she shared.

As a prize for believing in God’s help, Olivia was elected as Putri Solo 2021 and received rewards directly from Gibran and his wife, Selvi Ananda Putri. Olivia said that she was surprised with the result and that she was despondent in the mid of the briefing and wanted to drop out of the program. “Thank God, (I) had the strength and got elected as Putri Solo 2021,” she added. Olivia stated that she is ready to make a real contribution in introducing Solo culture and tourism and hoped that her involvement could encourage the youth to learn and care for their culture because the young generation is the spearhead for cultural conservation. “To care and have a sense of belonging towards the culture in Solo, especially Javanese culture, because if not us, who else will (conserve the culture)?”

Olivia also wants to get involved in the promotion of the tourism sector because the opportunity is something she must be thankful for, and that she needs to work harder in solving challenges she has in the future. She also reminded that people need to work on their dream, but God will decide the results. “We do our best; the rest is God’s works,” she concluded. Humas UNS

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In his visit to UNS, a unique moment occurred when he suddenly entered a classroom and made FEB UNS students who participated in the PTM surprised. Students who participated through the Zoom Cloud Meeting were also surprised by the Major appearing in their gadget monitors. This moment occurred in the Introduction to Macroeconomic course taught by Prof. Izza Mafruhah.

“Come on, open your camera, do not close it. I want to see UNS students’ faces who study today,” Gibran Rakabuming Raka said, greeting FEB UNS students.

In this opportunity, he asked about student’s conditions and wondered where the students were from. Aditya, FEB UNS student, had a chance to chat with the Major directly through the Zoom Cloud Meeting. Rivaldo, another student, also had a similar opportunity to talk to Gibran Rakabuming Raka directly. Rivaldo mentioned that he is from Semarang, but since June 2021 stays in UNS. “PPKM in Solo, and I do not go home,” Rivaldo said.

Gibran Rakabuming Raka then asked if Rivaldo had been vaccinated against Covid-19. The conversation between the Number 1 person in Solo and FEB UNS students was relaxed and full of jokes. Another FEB UNS student, Bintang, said that the visit surprised him and he did not expect the first son of Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, would enter his classroom

“Truthfully, did not expect Mas Gibran to come,” Bintang said to uns.ac.id. He added that UNS courage to hold PTM makes him understand materials fasters. The first-semester student also admitted that he has difficulty understanding mathematical courses explained through an online platform. “I am also happy to come to the campus because it is often awkward in online learning and feels like there is limit or distance with the teacher,” Bintang added.

As reported previously, this visit was Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s third visit to UNS to review the implementation of PTM. The major was accompanied by the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, and the faculty dean. In this visit, Gibran also observed the blood donation event and Covid-19 survivor screening in FK UNS Hall, where he greeted faculty members and academic staff who participated in the blood donation event.

When accompanying Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho said that the visit was not planned.

“So, suddenly he contacted that he wanted to come, and this was not planned beforehand,” Prof. Jamal said. Humas UNS

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“I ask support from people in Solo to reach level two or level one (on the restriction of community activities scale). When we open schools, automatically the economic wheels will move faster, especially in UNS, because it has 40 thousand students who obviously have a great impact on the economic activities around the campus, for those owning hostel, restaurant, photocopy, and laundry,” Gibran said to uns.ac.id after reviewing PTM implementation in FEB UNS on Wednesday morning (8/9/2021).

Gibran Rakabuming Raka said that he could not wait to open all schools and campuses and hoped that student’s parents were not worried about the start of PTM in UNS. He mainly guarantees that UNS students from other cities who meet the requirements to participate in PTM will come and go home healthily. He added that UNS had implemented tight health protocols and disciplinary approaches to its students who meet the criteria to participate in the PTM.

“Parents should not worry, especially in UNS, come healthy go home also healthy, and those unvaccinated do not need to be afraid because the vaccine is to achieve herd immunity,” he added.

To the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, who accompanied him in reviewing the PTM implementation in the three faculties, Gibran Rakabuming Raka appreciated UNS’ quick steps that directly responded to Surakarta Municipal Government to start PTM. He said that online learning experienced by UNS students since 16 March 2021 makes them got a long learning loss.

“We do not want to restrict for too long. We want our young to start learning because the learning loss has taken place for almost two years, and we do not want to worsen it, and what’s important is the learning spirit; the learning spirit is vital,” he said.

When the central government lowers the Surakarta PPKM level to the third stage, the municipal government directly encourages UNS to start PTM. To which the Rector acted promptly and opened the PTM in the following week.

“This is incredible,” Gibran Rakabuming Raka concluded. Humas UNS

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The Team was supervised by Pomo Warih Adi, S. Pd., M.Or as the field supervisor (DPL) and has nine members. The members are Arshy Abdullah Abdad from Food Technology Program, Inna Imro’atu Sholiha from the Mathematics Program, Intan Larasati from Soil Science Program, Intan Muliasari from Chemistry Education Program, Iqbal Albani from Fine Arts Program, Iqlima Aulia Fiddina from Chemistry Program, Jagad Gumelar from Informatics (Computer Science), Annida Lili Emeraldin from Agrotechnology Program, and Jenni Fertanauli Saragih from Law Science Program.

The empowerment programs include distributing herbal beverages kit, providing and planting plants, and creating a website. The distribution of herbal beverages kit aims to introduce various herbal drinks with natural ingredients that are easy to find. Group 375 KKN UNS member Arshy Abdullah Abdad, explained that this program is his Group’s effort to provide sales ideas for the community members amid the ongoing pandemic.

“The herbal drink kit we distributed are 60 boxes of wedang uwuh package and leaflet on the benefits of the beverage,” Arshy Abdullah Abdad explained.

The second program, providing and planting plants, aims to improve local people’s skills in growing plants. The cultivated plants are also expected to provide yields to meet people’s daily needs.

“The KKN was held from 3 August (2021). We also combine it with a socialization program on the danger of waste that aims to educate the local community on the danger and household waste sorting to create a clean environment,” Arshy Abdullah Abdad said.

And lastly, on creating a website, Group 375 KKN UNS encouraged the Gajahan Village community to build and improve their village’s image on the internet.

“Later (red: website) will be managed by the local community. Hopefully, the website could improve the image of Gajahan in cyberspace and provides opportunities for Gajahan people to publish their history, pictures from Gajahan, culinary, MSME, and other interesting sport through the website,” he concluded.

Besides the three community empowerment programs, Group 375 KKN UNS also implemented other programs such as mathematics consultation for school children, socialization of Pancasila values inculcation for elementary school, and counseling for making pedaled hand sanitizer tools. Humas UNS

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