UNS — Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta student brought another pride for the university. A student of the Soil Science Program Faculty of Agriculture (FP) won the Talenta Inovasi Indonesia Program (Indonesia Talent Innovation) held by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek). Suko Irawan and his supervisor, Dr. Agr.Sc. Ernoiz Antriyandarti, S.P, M.P, M.Ec, passed as one of 1,227 participants who met the substantial selection in the program.
Talenta Indonesia Program is a funding scheme in the form of incentives provided to students at undergraduate, master, and doctoral programs to implement their independent innovation and creativity that will benefit the community. The program has been offered for several years now with research and independent creative research schemes to solve community issues. Participants could select from several outcomes in the research scheme, such as undergraduate thesis, design/prototype, product, published article, and presenter certificate. The awardee in the program is eligible for IDR 5 to 20 million funding.
“The program is diverse. Almost similar to PKM, but PKM has Pimnas, while Talenta Inovasi Indonesia Program stops at incentive. So, we get an incentive, we implement the program, we completed the output,” Suko explained to uns.ac.id team on Saturday (13/11/2021).
In his first opportunity, Suko said that he selected Research/International Conference Research with an article published in Scopus indexed proceeding. Through the study, Suko won IDR 5 million funding allocated for the registration fee for International Conference and publication fee. Although Suko has presented his study at a conference held by Universitas Indonesia (UI) in August, he is still eligible for the incentive even though the program was open in September. “As long as we could meet the output required by Talenta Inovasi Indonesia Program, we could apply,” he added.
He added that the conference was his third experience presenting a paper. In the UI – Turkey conference, he stated that the event was open for students at undergraduate and master levels, researchers, faculty members, and the general public. The participants came from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and some other countries. Suko said that conference participation taught him how to prepare appropriate paper publications, presentation experience, and obtain feedback from the experts in the field.
After the conference, he got the information on the program from his teachers, to which he decided to apply. There were two selection processes, administrative and substantial selections. Suko received the incentive after passing the substantial selection, and he added that it is likely that there will be a monitoring and evaluation stage later on. He also shared his happiness when he learned about his success through the announcement Letter Number 4279/E4/AK.04/2021. “Happy, delighted, did not expect because this is my first time participating in Program Talenta Inovasi Indonesia.”
At the end of the interview, Suko stated that the program could provide another choice for university students because it offers diverse schemes and not many students are aware of the program. Humas UNS
Reporter: Alinda Hardiantoro
Editor: Dwi Hastuti