“Let us make our campus clean, healthy, and beautiful, so the term green campus is not just a slogan” said Sugeng. Moreover, Sugeng also hoped that some special places for smokers should be built, whether at the faculty or university level so that the pollution caused by smokers can be minimized.

Also attending this event, Vice Rector I, Prof. Dr. Ir. Hasriadi Matt Akin, M.P., Vice Rector. III, Prof. Dr. Sunarto, S.H., M.H., Vice Rector IV, Prof. Dr. Satria Duke, SE, M. Si, the Deans, the Vice Deans, the Heads of the Bureau as well as Heads of Technical Executive Unit in Lampung University.

The speaker of this socialization was Prof. Dr. Ir. Jamalam Lumbanraja, M.Sc., as the Chairman of the Green Metric Team in University of Lampung. In his presentation, Jamalam suggested some stages of the policy implementation for “Green Campus Sustainability” , among others, planning and designing the master plan for “The green buildings” which are aesthetic and efficient in energy, setting healthy environmental indicators, establishing an efficient transport system and friendly environment, setting good landscape which can reduce gas emissions, setting the operational procedures and waste management, food management, as well as setting a healthy and neat campus.

In the mean time, participants who registered and would take the test at the University of Lampung, based on real time data on Thursday at 15:00, reached 11.549 participants, consisting of the 2.506 participants for Natural Science programs, 5.362 for the Social Science programs, and 3.781 for Both Natural and Social programs.

Habib further said that based on the national data tabulation, Unila is the most sought university in Sumatra land and is in the third place in the national level.

“Based on the number of participants who did the first, second, and third choice, Unila occupied the first position in the region of Sumatra and the third place nationally. The number of registrants was in total 25.278 for option 1, 2 to 3. To put into details, 10.852 registrants made the first choice, 10.957 registrants for the second option, and 3.489 for the third option”, said Habib.

The first position was occupied by the University of Hasanuddin with a total of 29.925 registrants, which consisted 12. 948 registrants for the first choice, 11. 390 for second, and 5587 for the third choice. In the mean time, the national second position was occupied by the University of March Eleventh (UNS) with a total of 27.336 registrants. For this university, 12 833 registrants took the first choice, 11 790 the second, and 2713 the third choice.

Habib further explained that the SNMPTN this year is followed by 96 universities throughout Indonesia. Until Thursday 15:00 pm , the number of SNMPTN registrants reached 205.142. This year, the SNMPTN registration was open from May 2 to May 31, 2010. For those who follow the national re-exam, registration was reopened from June 10 to 12, 2010.

The Vice Rector I of Lampung University, Hasriadi Matt Akin, said that nationally the number of registrants SNMPTN from year to year is within the range of 500 thousands registrants, while the capacity of the 96 state universities in Indonesia is only around 85 thousand seats. Thus, the percentage of the absorbed registrants is only about 15%. [Lampung post]

The visits were made to several areas which have cultivated the honeybee, they are:
1. Buana Sakti Village, Kec. Batanghari, Kab. East Lampung
2. Selingkut Ulu village, Kec. Sumberjaya, Kab. West Lampung
3. Sinar Mulya Village, Kec. Banyumas, Kab. Pringsewu.

In his speech to the honey bee farmer groups, Prof. Dr. Ir. Sugeng P. Haryanto, MS said that the prospects of the honey bee is very good, because the existing honey production is insufficient for the total current demand for honey. Under these conditions, Lampung province should be able to optimize the production of honey, because this effort does not require special skills, i.e. easy to learn, and requires no formal education. Things that need to be considered is the availability of the food for the honey bees in the form of nectar and pollen from flowering plants and trees.

From the discussions with farmers, some problems associated with honey apiary include aspects of natural resources (food) and honey bees, human resources, and aspects of apiary management. Therefore, Prof.. Dr. Ir. Sugeng P. Haryanto, MS conveyed the need for attention and cooperation among local governments, universities, asassociation of apiary, and community groups in developing apiary honey in Lampung Province which poured through the integrated management of community-based apiary honey program. This program is expected to increase the income of the people directly, increase revenue, and is also expected to participate in preserving the natural resources.

In the visit, the Rector of Unila followed by some officials did a harvesting honey in the field. In addition, they also tried the bee sting therapy (bee venom) that can be used as an alternative treatment technique.

Instructors of this workshop were Joe Choppel, Ph.D., Yuan Lin, Ph.D., Scott Kinison, BS (Plant Biology Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington), Dr. Fatchiya Fatah (UB) and Prof.Dr. Setyo Dwi Utomo (University of Lampung).

According to chairman of the organizing committee, Dr. Dwi Hapsoro, this program aims at providing the understanding and skills for the participants of the workshop about the manipulation of DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid), “understanding and skills of manipulation of DNA is very important because it is the basis for the practice of biotechnology” said Hapsoro.

In this workshop, the participants were given direct materials and laboratory practices guided directly by the instructors, therefore, participants were expected to be easier to absorb and comprehend the material.

Maulana Mukhlis, a Lecturer from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, said that if this does not serve as the foundation of educational visions and missions, then the education can in itself be the bottleneck of the economic and technology development indicated by the emergence of gaps: the cultural, social, and vocational gap in the form of the abundance of educated unemployment.

In terms of educational development policy, Maulana affirmed that the future development of education should start from assessments in the national level. “The status and condition of education should be clearly based on the standard and measures of progress which are transparent in order for the public to follow the progress of existing education easily,” he said on Wednesday (5 / 5).

In addition, the education development plan should have a grounded discussion which is capable of covering all aspects and issues of education exhaustively, with both normative and quantitative measurable expectations.

To support these policies, according to Ricky P. Marly, a student from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), the government should really set the education budget as 20%, as the national education system reform insists. ”If not properly applied, it will be very difficult for Indonesia to get out of the current bad conditions. Let alone to compete with other countries, to stand upright on its own country will not be easy for Indonesia, ” said a student who is also active in the Teknokra Student Publications, Tuesday (4 / 5).

Meanwhile, to manifest the goal of education, the profile of qualified and humanist teachers become important aspects. According to Herpratiwi, a lecturer in the Teacher Training College, Lampung University, “Teachers should have a willingness to make plans about what will be discussed with their students, so that the learning days will always be full of challenges and expectations. Do not just imitate others’ lesson plans, teachers should have a self-actualization. Do not just come to the physiological needs when teaching. And never let it happen, yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s situations remain the same, “she said.

Teachers should be able to sit in line with other professions while always thinking of what will be done for the future to civilize and empower students. Further, they should dare to be different, protect against “viruses” of lazy learning, “viruses” erosion of idealism, “viruses” of lacking confidence, etc. If those viruses can be avoided, the combination of work, spirits, and learning will come into reality and will be followed by other positive values. (Lampung post)