Unas Send Delegation to South Korea

- The National University gives its student representation to Daegu International Youth Camp (DIYC) 2017. The event which took place on July 2-7, 2017 was attended by 91 participants from 15 countries, including Russia, Japan, China, Italy, Central Africa, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia. 

The delegation of Unas attended the event at the invitation of the Catholic University of Daegu as the organizer of DIYC 2017. This is the third year of DIYC organized by Catholic University of Daegu and DIYC itself has entered the sixth year. 

'We send three students from Korean and biology departments and to improve their knowledge, this activity is also important for them to open new horizons and hone communication skills, leadership, and independence, as well as networking,' said Unas Delegation Chairman Dian Metha Ariyanti, Tuesday (7/11/2017). 

Metha said, in addition to opening cooperation in South Korea, DIYC is considered as a good event to introduce Indonesian culture. This is done with the interaction between Indonesian students and foreign students for five days of activities. 

The Indonesian students are also presenting traditional dances from Kalimantan. They performed wearing traditional Borneo outfits and amazed dozens of summer camp participants. 

'We are proud to present Indonesian traditional arts in the presence of various nations,' added Nabela, one of Unas students from Daegu International Youth Camp 2017. 

Cooperation 

In addition to students, Unas Also sent his lecturers, among others Agung Iswadi from the Faculty of Engineering and Science to explore the cooperation with the Faculty of Engineering at the Catholic University of Daegu and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies of South Korea. Previously, Unas has signed a memorandum of understanding with both universities. 

'The partnership we intend to explore is to explore possibilities to run the mobility program for our engineering students to develop insights, especially in South Korea,' said Agung. 

He hopes that the cooperation will be held among others student and lecturer exchange programs from both faculties. The engineering faculty students are also expected to continue their undergraduate education at the Catholic University of Daegu and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Influential Writers Will Attend at the ASEAN Literature Festival 2017

A number of influential and critical writers from Southeast Asia will be present at the ASEAN Literary Festival 2017 literary performance which will be held in the Old Town area, Jakarta, 3-6 August 2017. This festival coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of ASEAN. 

The two most recent names are Malaysian writer Faisal Tehrani, whose book is prohibited to be circulated in his own country. There is also the author of the Fatherland who has just won the best short story award Kompas, Martin Aleida. 

'Faisal will open the ALF to give public lectures about democracy, freedom of expression and literature in Southeast Asia in Fatahillah Square, the Old Town, the historic' said Program Director ALF, Okky Madasari, Wednesday (07/05/2017). 

Speech Faisal could not be separated from his experience as the author of six works are prohibited circulated in the negeri jiran even though he never won the Prize Literature Utusan Malaysia-Exxon Mobil in 2002 through his novel '1515'. Faisal also received the National Book Prize in 2005 category either. 

work Faisal '1515' is then used for a lecture on Malay Studies program at the University of Cologne, Germany, and translated and republished by the Malaysian Institute of Translation and Books in 2011. 

Professor Emeritus Dr Salleh Yaapar of Universiti Sains Malaysia praised the novel as a rediscovery The identity and history of the Malay, whose work is also the only contemporary novel by a Malaysian writer who entered Ensik Lopedia Novel (Blackwell, 2011).

Together Faisal will also attend the Director General of Culture Ministry of Education and Culture Hilmar Farid. Hilmar will deliver a speech about the effort to unite Southeast Asia through literature. 

Meanwhile, journalist and author Arswendo Atmowiloto will be present to respond to the latest issue in the homeland, namely religious blasphemy. Arswendo has been jailed for religious defamation after conducting surveys for the Monitor tabloids. 

'Other themes raised is populism and radicalism. We present a journalist and author who has been poor across the region, Michael Vatikiotis. She's been decades studying Indonesia and the region. His latest book is also about a religious conflict,' said Okky. 

Michael is the Regional Director of Asia at the Center of Humanitarian Dialogue, formerly BBC Correspondent and Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and has been a writer and journalist in Asia for the last 30. 

Michael has lived in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong He is the author of Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (2017) and two other books on politics in Southeast Asia, as well as two novels in Indonesia: 'The Spice Garden' (2004) and 'The Painter Of Lost Souls' (2012) Michael graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and earned his doctorate from Oxford University 

Old Town Jakarta 

In contrast to Un-previous year, a literary festival which was followed by writers from 10 ASEAN countries and tens of others from more than 20 countries on five continents will be held in the Old Town area. ALF will utilize historic old buildings in Jakarta as a venue for discussions and exhibitions such as postal buildings, trade creations, ceramics museums, and wayang museums. 

In recent years, Kota Tua has indeed been renovated by the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta. In addition to being a historical area, this place is also a tourist area. 

Okey said, people inside and outside Jakarta enough to make this place as a favorite tourist destination. This predicate will benefit the organization of the ALF who want to get closer to the crowd, where the common people gather. 

This year ALF takes the theme of 'Beyond Imagination' and is held to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN. Activities that will be held are Literature Entrance Kampung, Residency, National Literature Jamboree, to seminars and book exhibitions. 

'As in previous years, ALF has always been consistent in carrying discussions with the theme of freedom of expression,' Okky said. 

At least about 70 more speakers from different countries will be present to fill the discussion rooms.

SCHOOL FUNCTION TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO STUDENTS

School is an institution or institutions who help cultivate the sciences, basic potentials of the students / learners. not only in the aspect of knowledge / intellectual, but also in aspects of personality, behavior, etiquette and manners are also taught in school. 

School will not only give the value of academic grades or rankings on students, the institute also has the function to provide services and to guide, educate and teach the learners to have properties / behavior better.

If you view the position of the family, an institution or an institution called school representing the parents or the family in educating children. That means the school is hands down the two after the family that works to develop / improve one's knowledge after the family. 

In his book Muhammad Ali (2009: 355) stated that the school functions include: 

1. Providing services to students to be able to acquire knowledge or skills the required academic lives 
2. Provide services to students in order to develop skills needed in the life 
3. Providing services to learners to be able to live together or cooperate with others 
4. Providing services to students in order to realize the ideals or actualize itself

MAIN FUNCTIONS BASIC EDUCATION

Education is a very important field in building a country. A developed country is certain to have the system and the quality of education is very good. This is because education affects the quality of human resources. In Indonesia the primary formal education is divided into several levels, namely primary education, secondary education and higher education. Affecting basic education and higher secondary education. Because the secondary and higher education is a continuation and sustainability of basic education. 

In his book, Muhammad Ali (2009: 33) states that there are two main functions of basic education, namely: 

1. Through basic education learners equipped with basic skills related to critical thinking, reading, writing, arithmetic, mastery of the basics to learn sainstek , and communication skills are a requirement of minimal ability in public life. 
2. Primary education provides the basics for education in the next education level. Following the success of education in secondary schools and colleges are influenced by success in basic education. 
3. Study of basic education in Indonesia normally found in elementary school (SD) and Islamic Elementary School (MI) becomes the basis for compulsory education to 12 years. Compulsory education program that was once six years, was changed to 9 years, and is now 12 years of a government policy to improve the quality of education.

Basic education in Indonesia normally found in elementary school (SD) and Islamic Elementary School (MI) becomes the basis for compulsory education to 12 years. Compulsory education program that was once six years, was changed to 9 years, and is now 12 years of a government policy to improve the quality of education.

Definition of Basic Education

Education is a conscious and deliberate effort to create an atmosphere of learning and the learning process so that learners are actively developing the potential for him to have the spiritual power of religion, self-control, personality, intelligence, character, and skills needed him and society. Education usually begins when a baby is born and lasts a lifetime. Education could have originated from before birth as is done by many people by playing music and reading to babies in the womb with the hope that he could teach their babies before birth. 

For some, the experience of everyday life is more meaningful than formal education. As Mark Twain said, 'I never let school interfere with my education.' A family member has a role of teaching is very profound, often more profound than they realize, even though the teaching of family members running unofficially.

FUNCTION OF EDUCATION 

According to Horton and Hunt, educational institutions related to real functions (manifest) the following: Preparing members of the public to make a living.  Developing individual talents for the sake of personal satisfaction and for the benefit of society.  Preserving culture.  Cultivating the skills necessary for participation in a democracy. Function latent educational institutions are as follows. Reduce parental control. Through education, school parents delegate tasks and responsibilities in educating children to school. Provide a means for insubordination. Schools have the potential to instill the value of dissent in society. This is reflected by the difference in views between the school and the community about something, such as sex education and open attitude. 

Maintaining social class systems. School education are expected to disseminate to their students to accept differences in prestige, privileges and status in society. Schools are also expected to be a channel mobility of students to a higher social status or at least not according to the status of their parents. 

Extend adolescence. School education can also slow down a person's adulthood because students are still economically dependent on their parents. 

According to David Popenoe, there are four kinds of educational function of which is as follows: Transmission (displacement) culture. Choosing and teaching social role. Ensuring social integration.  School teaches pattern personality. The source of social innovation  Importance of Education and Teachers In essence, education is very important to make the child's thinking is more developed. already there is of course the character of each child brought from birth but education makes the event extracting the character of the child. The need for help to motivate children to explore the potential and capabilities that exist in the child. The role of a teacher is very important. how not if a mother who has a child and the mother's own providing assistance maternal emotional learning will be stronger if his son had trouble. 

Education Teachers 

Teacher is not the transferor is a science but a teacher is a motivator, facilitator, to make children better understand the knowledge, to the teachers must increase performance and scholarship that will help your child or encourage children towards more advanced, making and information technology as a tool to seek knowledge. teaching materials for teachers themselves will be berpariasi thus facilitating children and motivate children can have a way that can make the child comfortable, innovative, creative, fun in learning. Government is very supportive in making teachers more professional in the government proved it provides scholarships for teacher education and to provide benefits

Education is

Instruction is the impact of facilitating acquisition, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods allow storytelling, treatment, teaching, training, and directed research. Instruction often takes situate under the message of educators, but learners may also educate themselves.[1] Upbringing can brook abode in buckram or unofficial settings and any experience that has a formative meaning on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be reasoned educational. The epistemology of precept is called pedagogy. Training commonly is subdivided formally into specified stages as preschool or kindergarten, special school, tributary building and then college, university, or apprenticeship. A justness to activity has been established by few governments, including at the globular place: Article 13 of the Confederative Nations' 1966 Worldwide Covenant on Efficient, Multiethnic and Ethnic Rights recognizes a coupler change to instruction.[2] In most regions instruction is required up to a indisputable age.